CFL r51 .Epif#leto the Theffäleniarts, Vu °R.t,2. Ftrfl,tha:r: benefit would be peculiar to thole only,that fhould furuiue againfr that day. For Ages fore - going, in as great likelihood, ecuritie would be the greater. Secondly,_ betides, what greater preparation to meet the Lord, was in Saul,'whenhe heard and beleeued,that his death fhould be the next morrow ? fome peniue fad- neffe, and dtfperate melancholy it wrought in him ; no penitent remorfe for finne, nor godly forrow to Repen- tance.. How were thofe lewes the better prepared, that knew or might haue knowne, by what the Lord fore - told! by Efay, the nigh approaching of their captiuirie ? nay fee, how they grow the more indulg ent to licenti- oufFíelLe ,teating and drink!ng,forté morrow they Aeulddie. tlfai,zz.r; Thirdly, I demand, for whom is this knowledge fo expedient ? for GODS Children or for Reprobates ? CodsChildren haue learnt by the concealment,to order euery day as their l&; and fo t9 hue euery houre, as if in the next moment fhould bee their Iudgemcnt. And for Reprobates, rhinke we the fame infidelity would not be in them towards this, as ro other Renelations ? What a- uailed it the wretched Sodomites, to bee told by Lot, of their nth-approaching vengeance ? He u [melee' to them ü Gen, i 9.1 4. ae one that mocked. And what was the old world the bet- ter, for all Noah: preaching, and building the Arke for his owne preferuaaon ? And what would it auaile an Infidell, if a Prophet, yea, one from the dead, yea, an Angell from Heauen, fhould tell him, that to morrow fhoraidbe his ludgement? Qefho nielle it is truth ; No- thing teacheth fuch men faith, but fente. It is cluefl`:oned iasongft Scho olmen, whether the faith, that Imes af- firmes Oetiills to haue, bee faith in properrie of fpeech, or not. And they refòlue, no : for they beleeue not what Clod fpea'tes, becaufe he fpeakes it ; but becaufe they feele it. And like, commonly, is the faith, that Repro - bates haue of any truth fupernaturall ; fenfe is their on -'; ly reafon of beleeuing sand by euents only, they giuc cre- dit 395 Anfw. 7 . v is s i;o i
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