Taylor - Houston-Packer Collection BS2755 .T394 1619

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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