. The dangeranclmlfchief· ·- Cap.I6.givesuptovileaffcllionJ,at le~Igth. to a re- .. _ _ probate minde, · at lafr to be filled with ·all manner of unrig~teoufnefi Rom. I. z6, 28, 29. The hopefull Pro{ejfour by this meanes ioott becomes a dang<irous Apaftate, and at lafi a down~right Atheift in life, as the ApoftJe f:1.ith Ti!uJ I. I s,I_6. w})en one~ the minde · and Confcience iSdefiled, they may profifs flit/ to k.?Joir, but inwdr~ they denie God~being abv– minable, d~(obed~e,!t;and to everygoodwnr~a-;any reprobate. When thewormwood fiar falls Into the fountain of Confcience, all the rivers become bit~er ; the fun beginning to f~t in Confdence, night ha£tens on in the af:fe8:i– ons,Thenfarewell Grace. And when the ft1n goes back in tht; heaven ofCo'nfcie!lce, the fhadow _mufr needs. go back as many degrees in the Diall of Comfort, Then farewell Peace. 2. As the firft decay is here co~monly begun, fo it proveJ the worft decay anddanger ·that can hefall a1nan, a breach ia Confci.. enc~ is like a breach in the Sea banks, proves Je (perate; or like the Leake fprung in the £hip, drowns men in titter perdition; after a crack in Confcicnce a man proves an ut– ter Bankrupt ; .after other fhipwracks one may recover and get up again, there are poft n.mfi:agium Tabu/4; but this .is a fatall and .com~nonly irrecoverable lhipwrack. ~ ,. ~ Some. fins and flips are like breaking of a Le~, or an Arm;wl).i~h may be fet again; this is like breaking the Nee'<., few recover, to I ' · take ,.
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