2,86 A Com9nesstary upon theGoel' Chap.7.. no : God will pour upon him and not(pare, fire and brimfone,. (form and tempeff : this hall be the portion of his clop. The jolt execution of that terrible commination, Rev. 3, i6. ihall certainly crufh his heart, witheverlaftinghorrour, confufion and woe. OK that this truth were throughly thought on andbelieved ! but men are wondrous apt to deceive themfelves in point of falvation. Therefore doth the Apoftle fooft premife, Be not deceived, when he reckoneth up reprobates, a Cor.6,9. Ephef.5.6, &mac, Them- felves they may deceiveand others,but god is not mocked Salaam feems, by his words and wifhes,a friend to Ifrael: yet is he fo far from inheriting with them,that he is deftroyed by them : this will be the portion of hypocrites from the Lord. If their hearts be not upright With him, he will never give them his hand, no though sprig. 16.15. theyfollow him, as clofe as lehonadab did Iehu. Their hopes (hall fail them, when at highett ; as E/aus did, returning with his venifon, Have We not prophccied in thy Name] Aman may preach pro- Ai# andMon, fitably to othersand yet himfelfbe a call-away,' Cor.9. vlt. Pen 121.136i. dleton confirmed Saunders, and afterward turned tippet himfelf. Harding a little afore King Edward 6, died, was heard openly in his Sermons in London to exhort the people with great vehe- mency after this fort; that if trouble came, they fhould never fhrink from the true Doctrine of theGofpel which theyhad re-. ceiv d, but take it rather for a triall fent of God, to prove them whether they would abide by it or no. All which to be crue,faith M=Fox, they can teftifie that heard him, and beyet alive : who al- fo fore- feeing the plague to come, were then much confirmed by his words. In Q, e)Itaries daies he turned Apoftate and fo conti- nued, notwithfkanding an excellentletter of the Lady. cane Dad- ley written tohim, while he was prifoner : wherein the ftirrs him up to remember the horrible hiftory of 7ulian of old, and the la- mentablecafe ofSpira a late, andfo co returne to Chrift; whonow f retcheth out ( faith floe) his armes to receiveyou, ready to fall upon your neck and kifhe you, and Taft of all to feafi youwith the dainties and delicacies of his own precious blood which un- A". a:dhfaa, doubtedly, if it might ftand with his determinate purpofe, he Jot t:9 .. would no_ let to fh;dagain rather thenyou fhould be loft. And fo Ail 1557. the goes on molt tweedy: fed fardo fabulam, the loft her fweet aid 3 S'O. words : as likewifedid William Wolfey. the Martyr upon Dewe* the Smith of Wells in Cambridge-Aire, and fume others, upon Welk
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