42© C: A Y. 5. "in Expafitioss vpot9thefz0 VEA.5,6, in thefe dales of fo cleare Light and Rcuelation, to bee Eph.4..T7itg.1 found in the deeds of Dark eneffe, z Walking,aa other ii Gentiles walks, in, vanitie of their mindr,hieúng their Cogi- tations darkened, being Aliens from the life orGod,t jroispb Ignorance that iu:n them. And marke it well, ye (hall fee how wrongly the Inference Howes from this ground: This account we may well make. Firft, Oar f nnes are now all excufcleffe ; we haue now a no cloake for our f:nnes. What will our people plead for themufelues, before the great Iudge of Heauen and Earth, for their InIdelitie, Blafphemie, Difobedience in all kindest Perhaps, as Tooles, :bey b knew not that they did euill; or, as Yam/ cxcufcth the l ewes, C Had they knewne, they would not haue crucified the Lord of Glorie. Now lure, if any be ignorant, it is becaufc thtyfhut.their eyes againft the clears Light of Truth (hiningvnto them : As I Paul fpeakes, If d our fjcll be new bid, it id hid to them that perifh ; not through defet4 of meanes, but through wilfull contempt_of knowledge, tendered them in the meanes, Secondly, As moreexcufeleffe, fo more fhameleffe. He muft,me thinkes,haue a Iron, of Brafe,that now hues in any groffe (inne, as Drunkenneffc,W horedome, &c. So cicarely bath the Lord, made knowne his Truth, that erzen childen are able to tell a Swearer, &c. he fearefully offends Gods Maieftie. Times were perhaps ( but thofe times are pall) when a man might halm fwallowed vp many a foule finne, without notice of many ; fo groffe,in former times, was their Ignorance, fo little their Know - ledge,that I thinkeit true of many, in many foule linnes, they knew not that they did arid. Batt I would faine know, what now are the Gnnes that alinoft Infants cannot dif- couere That we may now fay as-the.Lord of Ifrael, They . are impudent children, and ofa whorerforehead,that walks in fuch notorious abominations. Thirdly, If none of theft moue, let it be confdcred,: our; a Icb.rf.iz. bEeel4,17 c r cor.z.8.:. i s Co'r.4.3.:
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