S It A P.., Epiffle to the Theffalonians. V E LIZ I7S ter renders, quio6le5ati funtininiuflitia. The word fig - nifies a willing, pleating, felfe- propention, not without much contentment: vnrighteoufnef e,takeas before to de- note vniaserfalem intu><íitiam, finne and wickedneff'e ; fuch fhould the feôiaries ofAntichrill be,men finding pleafance, taking delight in their owne and others vicioufnef e. A vice or degree of vicioufhefT incompatible with Grace. Salomon notes it the property of the wicked to Z reioyce in doing eteill,to delight in thefrowardne f fe of the wicked : Saint Paid makes it a more heinous then doing euill :Saint Ber- nard to Dtgenius noting the feuerall fleps whereby men defcend to the depth and bottome of defperate contempr,_ rankes this in the middle : when a man firfi enters into a our le of finning,efpecially againfi confcience, he finds his firti facet a burthen intolerable : z let him iterate ir, of in- tolerable it becomes grauy onely, frequent it, of graue, its made 3 hue : cufiome ir, it proues 4 infenfible : ç not long ere its made delectable. 6 The tafie of pleafure makes it delirabie. 7 That excufable. 8 By and by defenfible : g Till at lafi it becomes gloriabile; matter of boafling, to which what can be added in the meafure of finfulnefl'e : Is it chargeable on Papilis? Ref. On no Chriflians more; I (pare mention of their exulting in,theirowne im- pieties at:d Idolatries: perhaps the people thinke they ought fo to ferue God : But who euer knew Papifi other then prariirer, abettor, triumpher in the vil:fl pollutions of that day of refiwhich God bath fanelified to himfelfe from the beginning? And what ioy is it to fee or heare the exorbitancies of men of the contrary Religion? what Da- said with b Ricers of waters bewailed, Lot c vexed his foule from day to dá1 to behold and heare ; partly for the diflio- nour of God, partly through compaflìon of the fanners ferie ; there ioy in with the ioy of haruefl, or fuch as they are affected withal!, that diuide the fpoile. But out vpon filthinefre of fornication, the companion of Popifli Idola- try : was euer Papiii knowne to fcruple this finne ? not to extenuate it as veniali? not to excufe it as a tricke of youth? to ioy and glory therein as in a point of manhood ? But fèutter, $ ernilJe°;!,
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