133 pfa11 ioó. 39- Jér.19. 14 .r Kings. 18: i8. Exod. 28. 30. rSám.28. 7. ri, Mat. 3. 7. Deu. 19.6 The Secret southfayer,or felves, but many cenfure and condemn each other, yet to God they areall Idolaters, Inchanters, Southfayers, &c. and aregone a whoring after their own inventions, and aremad af ter Idols ; they all have their Horfes and their Chariots, and Cities of confidence, andflrong bolds, their Sorcerers and In. chanters, and follow the way ofBalaam,and their godAS H- TER OTH, as their Fathers have taught them. All that the fpirit ofman canfindout by his own wifdom, power, or invention is nothing but as Sauls going toWitches andWiz- zards in the day oftheir difireffe : they every one in thisway leave UK I M andTH iZ MM I M which the Lord hath commanded, and they are all going to a weak woman and one that bath afamiliar fpirit : And all this he Both by taking counfel of his own heart, and following hir own inventions, and loth not wait upon that Divine teaching of the Father, and that never failing UR 1 M and THUM M I M which theLord himfelfhath commanded him to wait upon. All thefe inventions of man are but his Horfes and Chari- ots tocarry him away fwiftly from hisenemies and purfuers; whenconfcence is awaked in man, and he begins* to ap- prehendwrathand vengeance, and feeswhat a vile,ugly crea- ture he is, and what wayes he hath taken, and howhe hath followed after witches and wizzards to enquireofthem,who havenode yes their refuge ; now man gets to himfelfe all the refuges, defences, anddeliverers he can pally, to favt him from this wrath to come; he rides fwiftly from the pur- fuer ofblood and the wrath ofGod : I fay, let this be the firfl Vfe wemake of this point, even every man before me, and all to whom thefe things Thal come,to examin himfelfleriouf- ly, if thefe things be not fo; let him deal plainly with his ownheart, let himget into his chamber and be fill,and there Commune with himfelf, and he (hall finde that all his go- ings out, and f ekings, and inventions have been nothing elfe but to flop the mouth ofconfcienc, to allay the fire that be- gan to burn within him, and to get -fome drops to coole hic tongue,and to cover the fire and thefrnoakofthe bottom- Luk. 16. lWWM pit. 4° Did not all your undertakirìgs arife from a fight ofa
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