The dan_ger ana mifohief ----------------~~--------~-----~~ ·cap.1{:: ~~ ~}1e Re~i~rea~~n, ,2 Tim.2.17. At la~thrs _ (t~e:>_eand~ 'an1e to be an open tnenue t() - ~ · 1'aiil, an:d Perfecutoc of his dofrrine, whoru ~epraieth againfi more then he cloth againtl any other, 2 ~fim.+I4· This is indeed the · readieway, nay the ondy way to 11n that \mpardonable i1n, the fin againfi the holy (;hoft; which never hath forgivenefl, becau~e it IJ.ever batlr Repentance. A man that hath loft his Confcience i$ like a Bee that hath loft Ms fling, becomes a Droan ever after; and is at lafi expelled the Hive. .The . beginning of th~ Decaie of Confcicnce is like the beginning of the Heliic~feaver, which at firft, as the PhiG– ,tian faith, were eaiJly cund, but that it ii hai·dly known; but at lafr it is eaiify·known, but hardly cured. ' 3. The third.danger and mifchief is, tflat eitlier thou mufr refolve to make this Good w:trfare, required in the Text,for a Good Con– fcience, or to fttffer alt ill W.Jrf.zre made upon thee from an ill Confcimce; either thou mull: -maKe this 1reegoodl andhis fruit goad, or elje Mat.I2·3;eJmak_~ the treeiorrupt,andhi1[ruit corrttpt: but knowd1at thi5 war is the worft w.zr wflicf.l, f . .• I can bee made. i\11 wars arcbad, and end in ·bitternefs, but ofall i.varscivil ~-arJ are the moft drcadfull, worfe when it is between Cltie andCitie, then if it were Nation With ·Nation; and ofaltcivil wars domeflical in ·t:he f.'lme ' F amilie when divided )s wor[e, then when, ~ 'Kingdom divre~~ ~ _And il! the · _ · - · ~ iamc
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