S3g8 CHAr.5. tin Expafitonvpat.thefsrft VER.20. e .1 Secondly, Our peeple alto wee fee reduced, though k not with the ipiritof Enthutioffs, yet With a prophane and defperate fpirit. And their resolution is, to leaue ai 'to the, Lords difpof ng ; he that made them, let him fatie then ; they, without the tneanes , euen where G e vouch fafeth them, expec`-t Saluation; how elfe were their Fathersfaued? An w, How was d MISSES and e ELI AS pre timed withens food forty daies & forty nights? It was by an extra ordinary worke of Gods Power, (hewing himfelfe able to worke without, and ;bone mea.nes. And fo, it may bee God dealt with his Children, Uuing in times of Po pith darknefTe; hoe vroughr abctie his ordinary. But thould wee not thinke him rnadde, that expeîting ex- traord raary preferuation without foode, after the exam- ple of notes and Elias, Would attempt a Fall fo extraor- dinary ? Like thinke here. This once we know for truths whereGod giues meanes ordinary for Saluation, he vio- A&,,9. gt q, lates f stet his rder. They tempt God to their atypic dleftru- rr. Ilion, that neglefting the manes, expel? a s »or ke extraordi- nary in their Saluation. Thirdly, There is yet a third fort, and they are much amongft vs : fo prophane and godlei e, that they flick-. not to blafpheme this facred Ordinance of God and therefore to contemneit, becaufe it is, they fay, occali- on of ditfenfion and (}rife; and none wor(e than they, rhatrunne after Sermons. Oh, I befeech you, Brethren, tremble at loch Blafphemies, as to thinke the Word of God,the Gofell of Peate ;the Word of Clod, fo pure; that BIoh.r7.17. th{reby wee g are fanflified, (hould of ít owne Nature, breed either Difcord, or Difobedienee ; the Nature òf h z Cor.1o.1. it is,to rmeeken fateage afeltions;and it is h mighty through God to fibdoieeupry vile thought to the Obedience ofChrif?. And where it takes placein hearts of men, None are more to 3.13. either Apure, or peaceable. his true, there follow itoften íhifes and diffentions, where dDeur.99. e r Kmg19.13.
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