Chap.i 2. according to S t M A T T rt 14 VT. 369 lies ? Saith not the Scripturethe fame in fundry places? Is not Novum crimeq thisto have the glorious faithof our Lord Jcfus Chriff in refpea c. ofperfons, lam. 2. t, So thegreateft errours that HenryVoes and ente hoctempus fohnEfch Martyrs were accufed of, were, that men ought to aaisdátam.ç;c. truft only in God: for fo much as men are Tiers, anddeceitfnll in l+Act and r on, all their words and deeds ; and therefore there ought no truft or f 1, affiance tobe put in them. Vcr fe 28, Then the kingdomofgod is comeatntoyoat,] A certain fgne ofthe fetting-up whereof among you, is this ca('ting out ofdevtls by the f irit of God, or as Luke path it, by the finger of 'god: for the holy Ghoft is the effentiall power of the Father and the Sonne. Vcrfe 29. Afrongmany bout, &c.] The devil is firong, but overpcwredby Ch rift. He bath forcibly delivered us from the ti713j74170. power of darknes, fnatcht us out of the devils danger.: fo that, C°1,a.13.. though he shake his chain at us, he cannot faflen his fangs in us. Stronger is he that is in the Saints, then he that is in the world through Chrifl we (hall overcome him, Rom.8.37. Vcrfe 3o. He that re not with me, ú againft me.] But the devil is not with me, faith Chrift : for all I doe or füfer, is tode(lroy 'his works. Let this fentence allobe noted againft Neuters and Nicodett:ites, whobaud halting betwixt two, and will be lure to hold themfelves on the warm fide of the hedge howfoever. Such wereof old the Samaritans, Na.,arites, 6bionitea, and thofe that would neither beof `Paul, nor eApollos, norCeph:s, e'!ilátni. Srttl. but ofCF,rift : thatis, as Tome Neuters fay now-adaies, they are neither Cavaliers nor Round-heads, but good Proteftants: ®- t Cor.'.ia. thers are neither Papfls nor protellants, but Chriftians, that is j ,fl nothing, Atheifls. Chrift hates neutrality, and counts it en- mity : he to iths lukewartnnes, accepts not of any excufe in that cafe, Iudg, 5. t 6,1 7. Dan and Ephraim are paffsd by in the reckon- ingupof the Tribes, Rev.7. as iftheywere Sculdiers put out of pay, and cur out ofthe rolls. So are all detelable indiflrents,out of Gods bookof remembrance, (.514a/. 3. t 7, Verfe 3 t, All manner offin and6lafthemy, &c.] All without exception, yea though it be blafphemy, Ifa.4 4.2 2. God blots out thethick cloud as well as the cloud, enormities as well as infir- mities. Mancannot commit more then he can and will remit to thepenitent. TheSun by his force can scatter the greateft miff, as well as the leaft vapour: and theSea by its vafinefÌ', drown B b-3 mountains
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