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guided by cnrnall rcafon,A SERMON. 203they imploy theinwit,their power, their malice, their friends,their under-hand dealings, their policy snd their purfestocunklTeihey be too covetous; to hixnder,ftop>difgrace^sndflander the palTage ofaconfcionableMiniftery and the Mcflcngers of Almighty G o d,ofwhom the Lo r d hathfaid, Touchnotmrnean--nojnted^an^ de m^ Profhets mhdrme. Pfalme 105.15.They ever imitate and follow to a haires breadththeir Father the Divell in malice and pradife a-gainft grace and good m.en; except fometimesthey forbeare for a time for advantage, for reputation,orfuchotherby-refpedsand private ends:except naturally they bee extraordinarily ingenuous,and ofvery lovingandkind natural! dijpofitions;or bee reftray ned by feare offome remarkablejudgement, from perfecution of the Minijflers.2. As worldly vvifedome is divelliili, as Saint f^or% »'(^'lames cals it, and ever mixed with a fpice of Hel-"'"^ '^ ^^^^ ^lifh malice jsnd virulencyagainfttheKingdoraeofC H K -I s.T : fo it is alfo Ciirthly^ for it mindesonely earthly things,and though that cafls beyondthe Moone for matters of the world, yet it hathnot an inch of fore- caft for the Vv'orld to come:But though a man bee to palTe, per haps, the: nextc]ay,.nay the next houre, nay the next moment, tothatdreadfullTribunallofGo d, and to an unavoidablecverlailing eftate in another world,either in the joycs of Heaven, or in the paines ofHell, yet it fo glues and nailes bis hopes, de'lir-es,projcds, andi:cfolutionsfo tranfitory pelfe, andthings