(CHAP q.. Bpà fFle to the Theffálonians. V lit. s.' 295 and intentions of euill,that neuer yet were vented to the Bares of man, thou Ihalt heare in our Minifterie ddcoue- red and reproued. Cant} thou chufe now but fay, God n rcor.r4.2.5. is-in vs of a T`r'uth ? Secondly, If this perfwade nor, weigh the terror and afioni(hmenr, that a weake man firikes the Confcience withal). That men of Lyon-hke courage , like the great Leviathan, contetrning Sword and Speare; Ihould he fo airaigned and over -awed by a weake Minifter, as to tremble at his words, argues it not a Diuine Maieflie fpeaking in vs ? Is it not a wonder ro read, how Paul a :prifoner in bonds , fhould ftrike Felix his Judge, with o trembling ? I doubt not, but he might fay, as lob, He o Al could hays made than/ lards afraid nub his countenance ; yet fee him now trembling at the voice of his prifoner. Third ly,Confider the firange and no idle then mira- culous change, this Min33Lierie workes in the hearts of men, in whom God will haue it cfleetuall to fàluation. There is no Antipathie fo great betwixt any things in Nature, as betwixt Matt'sP Nature, and the Law of God. p Rom,8.7. Yet fee, and fay at length, as Pharao his Sorcerers, Here Are is the finger of God; when thou beholdefla man fo rauabed with lout of that which he roofl deadly hates by Nature, that he preferres it before his daily pod 5 q reb yea , holds not life Beare vnto him, for flipper of the Gofpe!. Who bath alfa giuen veto vs his holy Spirit. The third reafon here cöuchcd, taken from the great fauour of God,in bellowing his holy Spirit vpon v. How follows the Argument.? whether &f}, from the bountie of God, in bellowing vpon vs a gift Offuch excellencie ? orfe- condly, from the abilirie rniniflred vnro vs by the holy Ghofl, to lhue hoiily ? or thirdly, from he great danger accompanying the neglel of holineffe, after wee haue once been par.akers of the holy Ghofl? This rar',rff I irarift en. And thence'cbfertue, Hose of all ethers;'; =_.ifi rr crel t
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