t Almamalvonie*nlI C ri A P. S. "in Expofition slots the Frf! V s A.1,2. die to Diuinc Prcdi1ions. How often threaten wee out x Pro. a;. it. of Salomon ? The x Drunkard/hall be clothedwith rags ; r Pio. sí.17. A Y loner of paf#imme ¡hall bee pore r The z whore (Kali z Pro.6.z6. bring toa morfell ofbread; Yet who beleeues our report ? till he (celes his ponertie feizcon Lim asan armed man. And thinke you, in cafe the time were reuealcd, the Son of man when he commeth, Iheuld finde faith on Earth I In Reprobates, little or none ; neuer a whit the more, for theLords reuealing the time of his comming. Ifay then, as Abraham; When the Glutton thinkes tomuch power in a mefTenger from the dead, to work e faith in his brethren ; nay, faith A B U A U A M, a If they heare a Luke a6.3í. not MOSES and the Prophets, neither will they baleen, though one come frotis the dead. So, if, while the com- ating is certaine, the time vñcertaine, they repent not ; neither would they repent, or betceuethough the Lord had reucaled the day, and hours of his comming to Iudgement. Lafily, confider of this pretended expdiencie, but by this Reafon. Some hundreds of yeares arc paft, fincePe- b r Per.4.7 tir faid, b The end ofall things is at hand : we fee, or may fee a ( entibie decay, and languifhing through age, in this vaft body of the World. How is the ftrength of the Earth worne out, with long etauell to bring forth fruit, for the vfe of mans life ! the other creatures, how are they feebled lince their firttoriginall ! Yea how many liignesof Chrifts fecond comming haue bceneeuidently es Thetis. ;,s. accomplifhed in our eies ? C Apoftafefrom the faith, re- waling ofthat yoan o fftnne,hie confarmption,inagreat mea- fure,by the breath oftbe Lords month: And yet who almoft bethinkes him of preparation againfl: that Day ? and rather hues not, as if Death, and Hell, and Iudgement were all but Fables To conclude this point therefore, as great and farre greater expediencie there is of concea- ling, as of reuealing the time of Chrifis fecondcomming toludgement; And the condemn! hopeis cleare;The time
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