Ep,ifFle ofS. PaultoTitus. CHAR 3.3 calher intoabed offorrow andgreat afßiition. So the Lord would haue'. 607 purged the impenitent Iew,but he would not be purged,therefore faith the Lord, Motel-halt not bepurgedtill have ca"fed my wrath to come vpon thee. The fifth fort of fecure perlons may be called fenfible Troteflantr, I who by outward things fudge themfelueshighly in Gods bookes : and many both rich and poore tread in this path. Rich men need not feeke 1 for further ;round ofGods favour , then that theirhand hath found out riches,and ,heyare increafed in their poffeflions,andprofpered in their labours : And how can it be other , feeing vengeance mutt purfue the wicked,. and if they were fo, they could not be profpered fo long , and diuetfly as they are ? Thus Dauid obferued of wicked rich men : their houles were peaceable without feare;and becaufe they arenot in afJii5 i- P Yú1.73,5., onhke othermen, pridecompaffeth them ae Achaine: they feeke not after God, nor found and titled peace in him : but little knew they the ende of that fat pafture; he learned at the Sanótuarie , that they were lifted Tonun is vp above other, as fellons on the ladder, tocomedowne with a greater "'n "`1aNtn h,r mifcheife andbreaknecke. But more merueilous it is that correótions g`av,ore ruunr. and afThótions fhould become a pillow for fecurity in many, which are { Gods fpurres in the flankeof the godly to pricke themvp , and route them from their drowfineffe; and yet many determine hence, and con- clude without further ground,the Lords loue towards- them,becaufeof long,and durableaffliólions , ofwhich they could neuer come to make good vfe, nor take any profit by them: whomGod loueth , fay they, he chafleneth : and weare fudgedof theLord, that we should not be condemned of the world: and when they are exceeding trolled in the wotl d,and indeed curled in their counfell andattempts, they thanke God they haue their punifhment here in this life,& fo fecurc themfelues- from all future pines. But this is but a guile and tirarageme ofSatan,to Croófe, no Sn call his o ton into the Lords cup and bane anddeliro men with that Gods efinneoE P y P Y coas love, which might be a fpeciall metre oftheir good, euen a fpeciall prouoca- tion-to make them feeke reconciliation withGod in Iefus Chrilì:which. many Men who Will not much murmur at afiliEtlon, but generally can confclfe it a fruiroftheir fume; little thinke of; theaffliCtion it felfe is a token. of loue inough already, though no amendment accompany it, nor any forrow-for flume, feare ofofi'endiug,or diligence in good duties follow it. Thus by allthetemeanes fecurity eateth vp the foules of in finite profeflèd Chrifl:ians, who -are all miferably deluded , and not yet gottenout oftheir naturall corrupted eftate, but for the prefent are the childrenofwrath.. The fourth and laft fort ofinen. whoare deceived:, and wander out of IV the
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