Confounded in their Language. forms, or by their religion which they have takenup, to fe- cure themfelves, and to find reff : Here now they begin to creel a B A B EL, a Tower that may reach to Heaves, which may fecure them from all danger, and that they may afcend and dwell there, where no deftruaion m ty reach them, thereby to prevent the overflowong _deluge, that it may not come at them. When man is once gone out fromGod,whowas his life, and his light, and his ref, and his be/pit:eft, being not con= tent with him alone, nor with the tree of lip of which he mighteat freely, but calling his eye upon the tree of k. owledg ofgood and evil, he lulls to eat thereof, for tispleafant to look upon; manwould by no means liveupon God, and have a dependance.out ofhimfelf, but hewill take a fecure conrfe and provide for himfelf ; he likes well this tree ; and here he feeds and eats; he travailes in this pleafantplain of Shi- nar , and here he begins to bethink himfelf to dwell and takeup his reff ; herehecan fleep quietly under his own la- bours, and fit repofedly under his own vine, and here now is theplace where all men confult together to ralle a Babel ; This is done by, and in every man : man having loft himfelfe andgone out ofhis way, having noHoufe nor Tabernacle, having departed from his houfe built by God without hands, he bethinks himfelfof buildinghimfelf a houle made with hands, by his ownRudy and invention, and this th_all be his abiding, and here hewill dwell,. and here. with his own hands he will make himfelf a fielter from all forms and from all deftl'u&iorr. Ind they fay one to another, Gse to, let us mare brick_ and bátrn them throughly : They fey to one another : that is, not as if men jingly fpake thus to one another , but every man enters into a confultation with hintfelfè, and with the Prince ofDarknets. And now they having forfaken God the trueguide, they hearken to the I ëvil ai to theFather ofdeceit and lyes, and take his counfel, and him they will fóllow,and his works now they dó,andnot theworks ofGod. Andwhat do they ? And theyfay one to 'another, Go to, let us matte brickandburn them th. roughly ; That is, they think ande
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