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But.] Here is the Diversity; this dis-joins these blind and barren professors from the former, by a manifest opposition. As the future life shall put an everlasting ⟨p. 184⟩difference between the elect and the reprobate, Matth. 25.46. the one going to eternal pain, the other to eternal peace. Here they are scarce distinguished; but then there shall be aⁿ great gulf fixed between them. So even on earth the Scripture dis-joins them with a But. The adversaries of Stephen gnashed on him with their teeth, Act. 7.55. But he himself was full of the HOLY GHOST: Stephen was under them for outward condition, but far above them for inward consolation. The waves may foam against the rock, and exercise their vain malice, but the Rock is unmoveable, Psal. 1.6. The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: But the way of the ungodly shall perish, Psalm. 32.10. Many furrows shall be to the wicked: But he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him, Psal. 5.11. Destroy thou the wicked: But let all those that trust in thee, rejoice. There was darkness in Egypt, but light in Goshen. The Tares are suffered to grow up with the Wheat; but in the harvest they shall be severed. Slay utterly old and young;² But come not near them that have the mark, Ezek. 9.6. In the tenth of the Proverbs, the first fourteen verses, have their medium distinguished with this But. Indeed most of them are but pairs of cross and thwart sentences, manifesting the contrariety of good to evil: 1. This is both in regard of a former ordination, Rom. 9.13. Jacob have I loved; But Esau have I hated. Some^o