I 34 The Secret sorcthfa,yer, or as they are , as you know, that is the way of Iuglers and thofe that ufe Ledger-de-main and HOCUS-P0CUS' tricks; they deceive and delude the eyes of the beholders,with their nimbleneffe, and with a fleigbt ofhand : So doe thefe fpirituallJuglers ; by their wit, and by their learning, they Mind the truth ofthe Gofpel, andmake you takefhels for the fubflance , and counters for gold : Now , when the Lord hitnfelfe will arife with his light, all thefe enchantments fhall vanifh,and all the Inchanters beconfounded;you hall be no moredeceived withfzne,fmooch,foft words ; and there fhall be no more aMagician, nor a Southfayer, nor aPeeper, nor aSorcerer , nor any that worketh a Divination : And he will Ezek.13. deliver his people out of their hand. As Balaam Paid, when 23. hewould fain have curfi the Ifraelites , and wrought by di- Nunib.23. vination, and put upon them an Inch,antment, he faith,Surely 23. there is no enchantment againft Iacob, neither is there any Di- vination againft Ifrael That foule that is enlightned by the God of Ifrael, and hath experience of the truth, cannot be inchantedby thcfc lyers, or by thefe Southfayers, they have no power over them , for they are built on a rock, on Jefas Mat.7.25. Chrift that eternali and unchangeable rock of Ages ; who Deu.32. 4 is that immovable BASIS on which all the Saints in all generations have built and refted on, for their faithftands not in the wifdont ofman, or on thepower of man, but in the wif- dome andpower ofGod. And then he goes on in the next words, The graven Ima- r ges alfowill cut of, and thyftanding Images out of the midß of thee, and thoufkalt no more worfhip the workofthine own hands. Now what is an Image, but the piliure and form of that thing to which it relates ? thofe Images and pictures .which men by their own inventions have framed to imitate the things ofGod , and have fquared them (as they conceive) very like thepattern, and have made them very neat and curious, fo that they paffe for current, and they aregenerally received, and the men themfelves efteemed rare workmen; yet this day oftheLord will dzfcover all thefe things, they fhall all be talken away : nay, though they be Old-received Idols, and of LONGBanding, and made by the molt exail
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