s The linfulneJJe of Sinn e, of eemed raigning ftnnes i To which I answer, That t re wicked in Scripture are Clbarad r'J by fuch kinde of fins, Powre out thy vengeance upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call Not upon thy Name. 'erem. to. z 5. The wicked through the pride of his heart will not feeke PfaLne 10.4. after God, God ù not in all his thoughts. There is noigr,rth, Hoíea4.r. nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the Land. I was an Ma:th.' 5 4.T. hundred, and you gave mee no meate ; thirf y, and you E ilel . 3. 8, gave me no drink; a/lranger, and you tooke. me not in. (1-, -. As in matters of government, a Pricces negative voyc e; whereby hehindeis the doing of a thing, is oftentimes as great an argument of his Royalty, as his pofitive com- mands to have a thing done (nay a Prince bath power. to command that to be done,which he bath no power to prohibite ; as Iof as commanded the people to frve the I Lord : ) So in fin, the power which it bath to dead and f take off the heart fromChrit }ian duties, from Commu- pion with God,from knowledge ofhis will,f&om delight in his word, from mutuall Edification,. from a conftant and fpirituall watch over bur thoughts and ways s and the like, is a notorious fruit of the raigne of fin. So then as he laid of the Roman Senate, that it was an afi'embly of i Kings, fo wee may fay of finfull lulls ii the heart, That they are indeed a Throng and a people of Kings. The fecond Exception wherewith the more moderate fort of unregenerate men feeme to íliift off from them - felves the charge of being lubjeEtto the raigneof iînne, is, that fin bath not over them an univerfall dominion, in as much as they abhorre many fins, and doe many Make to,zo, things which the rule requires. e./ill theft, things, faith Ithe young man in the Gotpell,have I done from my yosttbil KS And HRZael to the Prophet, Is thy servant a dog,to rip 1 .uo,.t 3 up women and dafh infants to pieces i He íeem.ed at that I z K1n s r o.T 6 time to abhorre fo dcteilable fads as the Prophet tore -I 2 Kfl s > >.2y told. Come, faith him, and nee my zea/e for the Lord of Itlarke d. >. I-Ioafts. eAhab humbled bimfelfe, Herod heard John \ .l.:d- I 297
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