The hardened Confcience. wm;king, &c. So long as we do no evil, ~~ ap~ r_~ ~ or fpeak not vainly, what would you have i1s do? Remember chat v~nitie of minde is ·the firfr fl:ep to H~ll. . 2. Th~ fecond fiep is Vark.._nefs ofunderflandmg] which eve!-" follow.s upon vanitie of minde, and this darknefs of underftanding leads you to the third fiep Alienation irJ a!fe&ion J:om the life of G?d, having the underfianding .darkened, bung alienated from the Jife of Gad. ] Alier~cite:-J. aEJ;ve~ on their part , they loathing GB~; · a finfull alimation. And alienated pajfively, · h o d G d' H' fo I ' h · h 'lee .u.Q. an on o s part, IS ou ao nrrmg t . em; a Judicial alienation. 4· This alienation le~deth tq rf!Ore dark!fefi fiill, andExc.ecation, firicken with blindenefs ofIgno,rahce ; One fin l?egets a~other in ~nftnitum, Da~knefs·of Underfianding caufed heart-alienation from God, That again proda~eth . ignorance ; · alienatedf~om the life,-of Qod through the ignorance that i1 in them. J 5. This ignorahc~ 1eads next fiep to h~rdnefs,hot naturall and fimple, but double and judicial, becau[e of the bardneft of their heart] 6. This hardnefs car.- . ries you on next fiep to bt{enfibtenefl, wlio being :p~fl feeling J 7. In{enft/Jieriefr brings ori D~fFeratencji, being E_afl feeling they have · {!zven themfelves over. J Here you may give them over for loft, when they come once to this feventh fi~p to give themfelvcs; or Jell i King.2 ij t.hemfelvu,as Ahab did to work wickedriefs. 2j. Here is t~eir loveoffi n, they give thenifelves over to It, when nothing is to be gotteil s . by
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