W AP .d Eaidle to theTheffalonians. V s x, i 8 I 35 I comes judgement. Where is that fhould litpport thefbu'e, againfl it be prefenred ro the Lords rribunall ? When eue_ ry man h receiues according to t be things done in his body :: To loch diftreffe, alas, what comfort can they minifler;thar haue neither experience, nor fo much as knowledge, of the 'manes of reconcilement veto the Judge ; know hot, toreuenle vnto men that righteoufnefreof Chrifb, wherein, who is no found, perifheth in cuerlalling horror,and tor- ment of confcicnce ? Secondly, Learne we all diligently to conuerfe in the Scriptures,that we may Bore our felues with found com- fort, againll the euill day comcncth, Certainly it is a truth; either in this life for a time, or in the world to come,foreuer, thou flialt find confcience an acculer, a witnetfe, a fudge againfl thee. Ir will be too late to feeke comfort when the milery commetti. Be exhorted there- fore, to let this Word i dwell plentifnfey inyou ; if not for the plealantnelfe of heauenly reuelations, therein contained ; if not, that you may know how to direhf your hues ac- cording to the will of God ; (though whofo makes it not his Ceunfeller,1hall neuer find it his comforter :) yet For your!lecefliry fake, that ye may haue comfort, where - with to fupport your Conies , in the euill day of temp- tation. Strange is the contempt of this knowledge,and comfort oftheScriptures amongff incr. Infomuch that euen idle Ballad s,profane Play-bookes, and lying Fables, are with more delight conuerfed in,then the f:cred Word of God, able to face, or d f roy our foules. k God bath written vs the great things of his Law ; but they are become ftrange thing vnto vs ; caufed the Scriptures to be written for our com- fort, and therein afforded vs cenfèlations, Tisch as no wri- rings of men deliuer. Iuflly let their foul es perifh in hot - rour, and euerlafting difcomfort, that negleí} to great fal- uation offered to them in the Scriptures. The endofthe fourth Chaptero_ h z Car.5.Io. a. i cot .3.IO. lt H(,'3.I 2:
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