Jfought himbut I could not findhim. 26? \ call hatreed more then human~ in carnall vile s ~ men,to thofe that are better thenthemfelves , be~ c;mfe they hate all prefence of God, both in the · Word, Minifiery, and all Gods holy fervants; all fuch prefenceof God they hare, where0fone maine reafon is, becaufe they are malefattors, wicked rebels, and intend to be fo. And as a malefaCtor cannot endure fo much ai the thought of the Judge, fo they cannot thinke of God otherwife(in that courfe they are in)then of a Judge, whereupon they tremble and quake at the very thought of him, and avoyd his prefence. You know that great, manFelix,Paul fpake to Ad t -f. t f . in theAils, when be fpake of the judgement to come, and thole vertues, as Tem~rance) and Righteoufneffe,whieh he was voidof,and guilty .ofthe contrary vices, he quaked,and could noc endure to 'heare himfpeak~ any longer. Wicked Mark ~·7· men love not tobe arraigned, tormented, accu· fed and 'ondemned before their time ;therefore whatfoever prefents to them their future terri~ ble efl:ate,they cannot abide it. It is an evidence .of a man in a curfed condition, thus not to endure the prefenceof God ; butwhatfhall God and Chriftfay to them at the day of judgement t! It was the ddire of fuch men not to have to doe with the prefence of God here; and it is jufi with ChrHl: toanfwfrthem there as theyanfwerhim . now,Depttrt,depart, we wi!lhavenoneofthy wayes Io& u.x7. ,(fay they) Depart ye curfed (faith he) He cloth · I but anfwer in their owne language, Depar~ ye , turfed
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