EpiflleofS. Paul to Titans. CHAP.!ïc; I tend for our owne deuifes,but requireth that his wilt fhould beour rule. 277 Oh that wecould'cknowledge the truth; in accounting ourdeliucrance from ti is Popifia Egypt, and Romifh blindues, the next bleffingof God to the gift ofhis Sonne; feting in the bodie oftheir religion there can be no foundriesof faith, ifany faith at all ; the heft of it beetug a difeale and rotteones, ifwe may not more trucly fay, it bath a name to ligebut indeed Reu.r.n is flake dead. Do'rr. a. It is a grievous thineand iudgement to bee turned away AecsreduU from the truth, and yet this is the fearefull fruit of humane deuifcs. For GoÁube oY . theApostle would here note a iudgement of God vpon lush perlons as td from were adds ced veto fables and humane precepts : the which judgement, is a wafull andbeanie flroke of Gods wrath , whether a manefirsnge himfelfe from it before, or after be bane received it much more.For what a plague is it fora man to hate the truth, and in it God the authorof it, who is truth it Idle; the light of comfort, and dire6tion of it, as allo the happy fruit of it, which is faluation; feeing all they are damned that re- seine not the love of the truth, whereby they snight be, farted? 'What a wo- s.mclaa.ta full delufinn were it, that a condemned perfon for high trealon going to execution fhould refute a pardon offered; nay be fo farce from accepting it, as that he abhorres to beare of it, will not tunic his ties to behold it, yea treadeth it vnderhis fcete?and yet filch aípirituall frenziepoffef%th all fuch as turne away from the word of truth, and when God calleth them, twine another way. For feting if the. Sonne fct vs nor free, Ioh.8. 32. we remaine in bondage vnder firne, anddamnation, and arc esserle day drawing to execution(in themeane time as condemned perlons be- ing referued in bolts and chaises till the time ofexecution :) Nowe in thefebands ofdeath, the Prince ofpeace our Lord Iefus offeteth a grati- ous pardon, the parry offended fecketh to the delinquent, entreateth andwooeth him toaccept ofapardon procured byhis owneblood, and Pealed by his death : Nowwretched men cannot abide neither themef- lage, nor the mef gingers : but in contempt treadvnder their feote that blood wherewith they fhould be fan6tified and fcorne the Princes de.. mency: (hall not the very confciencesofthefe men in the Lords iudge- suent accule thetnfelues as worthy of ten thoufands deaths r' yes fureiy, and (hall iuflifie the Lords righteoufocs,when he (hall bring upon them that great c.ssdemnarooof a great part of the world: who the light be- t.g.r. ingcome, 8e fhining on their faces,yet loued darknes rather then light. But muchmore tnilerable is it after the embracing and kuowiedgof the truth , to turne away from it : a great witches le it is tobeginne in the fpirit,and end in the flefh :anvnwotthy ratan is he of Gods kitagdcme, soh.=.79. that fetting his hand to theplow looked) back:after wafhing to returne LLk.;.att, S a to
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