Cø P.4. Epipe to the Theffidenians. Vnit (5. 5 3 5' to bee confidered, that howfoeuer the pedonall as of fume in the.vngodly, are, as they are ails, tranfient ;and feeme to dye with the committermet haue many ofthem a propagation along cuen to a thoufand generations. Jr is laid of lerobagm, He made Ifrael to finne. It is true, not onely of the time, wherein he lined; but the infcilion of that policie and example, reached to many fucceeding a- ges, The fame is true of other fins and ruiners ; the poy- fon and flench of their abominations, continue long after tile death oftheir full authors. Saint hide tels, vs of fome in his time, that mi/ked in the way of Cain and Balaam. Themfelues were long lince dead, but the poyfon of their example, remained euento bides time, and will doe to the end of.theworld. And it is nor to be doubted,but that all the finnes pf other men, occafioned by their ex- ample, (hail be puni flied in them, as well as- thole that in their owne perlons they committed. To the end there- fore that they may haue a full mealine of wrath, accor- ding to the full meafurc oftheir finnes 5 there mull bee a fecondromming,of,Chrill to the judgement; and their are tome ends in relpeet ofthe wicked. I might he infinite in f Ctting down other ends that re- fix& Gods children, As fi i fc, the clearing of their innocen- cy CÓ the faces of them that haue loaden them with vniuft: flanders and accurations.. Seconcl!y, therecompenfinvof their labours that haue not recciuedi inihislifeanyvi. file reward. And what Ihould L tell you of the vies it bath in re, ipell ofGod h imfelfe, and his Chrift ? How often quar- rel! we at the dirpenfations of his prouidence ? that :hee calls profperity vpon the wicked-,,. and exercifeth his children with continmll affliilions, There mull a; day come, when mew/batik difcerne.betwixt him that fertaei god, amain.; that ferues him not;ancl the equity of Gods prefent difpofitionfhall appeare to all men : when the wicked:fhall he forced to confelli,, they- found the Lord liberal! -to them INNi111111MMor-
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