The Hidden Sorcerer, difcovered. 143 Lttk, be difcovered who are thofe deluders., that cried Loe here, and loe there, and Paid he is the chambers, or he is thewilder- treife, or he is the fecret places : Then he will (peak that word in thy foule, Goe not after them, joyn not with them, for they lead thee from thy beloved; then thou (halt fee, that He whom thou calledft a feducer, a devel, a blafihemer, (hall now be thy Judge; and thofe thou runnedfb after, and thoughtedit thy friends, will befound jers, deceivers, and blaIphemers. Now this day of the Lord man would fain put or, with all his wit, wifdome, and inventions : and this day of the Lord cannot be meant of a litterall day , or a naturall day; for that cannot be,for who is able to put offone day ? And as man cannot put off a naturall day , nor the riling and feltingof the Sunne, nor day, nor night; fo cannot he put offthis day of the Lord, but when it will come, itihall come, and he cannot put it off with all the art, wijdome, power, and all the inventions and fubtilties he can devife : but Chrifi fallbe born in BETRL EM, as it is prophecied of him ; In Bethlem, that is, in thehoule ofBread ; for he is the true bread, and the bread of life ; man never had true fttil faet ion, or any true bread, till He was born in him : for his body is bread indeed, and his blood is drink indeed : Then all mans wifdome and power, and all hisFortifications and Strongholds Ihall beblown down ; then fhali the walls ofIe- richo.fall at theJöunding of thole Ramf- horns; And then, when thrift is once born, Herod and all Ierufalem( hall be troubled : then is the day when Rachelfhall mourn for her children , and wit; not be comforted ; yea , all thole children which the children of men have 'begotten , and thought they would'be a comfort, and rejoicing to them, and afuppert to them ; they in this day (hall all befain with the (word: And that light of God that is in every man.,fhall tell them, that all theirw?jdore and endeavours, that all their righte- oufneße, and conformity is nothing worth, and that when they have done the utmofl that they can , they are but un- profitablc fervants, and the beft of their ftriOrneffe is not worth one bit of bread, and that God is not bound to them in 23, T7. Micah 5:2 Joh. 6. 55 Jof.6.2o, Mat.23ïi8 Luk. tq.ao Ibid.i3. 27.
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