122 The Secret southJiyer,or things Mofes did, for a long time, as if they had wrought 22 &C I I' by thefame nn power Mores did , when as theywere no other, but Deceivers,and Enchanters , andMagicians ? In the fame way doe Magicians worke in all ages ; Whatever the Saints and people ofGod doe by thepower ofGod, they can contrive and imitate the fame, in all their fpirituall inchantments: they have their Ïemples, and their Yhorfhip, and their Groves, Mark 13. theirforms and inventions, and cry , loe here , and loe there; 21' when thefe are nothing elfe but their own Idols, and Groves, and Imttges, the inventions and works of mens hands : And when they have decked and trimmed their Idolsglorioufly, they not onely fall down themfelves to them , as Nebuchad- Dan.3.i1, nezzar did , but enjoyn this /d)/-worfhtp to all others ; and he that will not fall down towhat theyfay is truth and Reli- gion , Him they perfecute and brand with thofe odious names ofHereticks, Sellaries, Schifmaticks, Familifts,and the like. But in the day when the Lord will appease tomake all thefe Magicians and Southfayers to be /jars, ( which day theyhate andhide themfelves from, becaufe they hate the light: Neither come they to the light, left their deeds fhould be John3,20 made manifeft, and declared that they are not wrought in God, but are a7ed in thepower ofman,& by the wonderful work ing ofAntichrifl in all power,an.dfigns,and lying wonders,and 2 ThcC2. in all deceivablenefl ofunrighteoufneffe:)And theLord when he 8,1o. fhall rife,wìl difcover and confuse themwith the breath ofhis - mouth, and with the brightneffe of his comming, and all thofe glorious Images and fine contrived modes and forms,and lying wonders, wherein they trufted, in fo much that all the world Rev.r3.3. wondred after the beafl as ifth,at thefe were the only religious men : But when God appcares with his light, all thefe ihad- dows, deceits and delufions, all thefe Inchantments and Sor- ceries wherewith men havecloathed themfelves , Mall be cut off ; Thefc Cities that the formes of men have bu:lded for their fafety, security, and prefervation, they thall all be cut off from their hands : Now, ofall things in the world, thefe men hate nothing more then this light, and this day of the Lord. Thefe Sorcerers t:fe all the means they can to keep away
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