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You perceive that our sins are Thorns; and what is their only remedy. Know now, that if they be not drawn out in this world, they shall be found thorns hereafter; when the owners shall hear Christs sentence, Go ye cursed, &c. for the end of them is to be burned. So I come to the punishment: but I will soon have done with that, which shall never have done with those that must undergo it.

You perceiue that our sinnes are Thornes; and what is their onely remedy. Know now, that if they be not drawne out in this world, they shall be found thornes hereafter; when the owners shall heare Christs sentence, Goe yee cursed, &c. for the end of them is to be burned. So I come to the punishment: but I will soone haue done with that, which shall neuer haue done with those that must vndergoe it.

There is a threefold gradation in the Penalty, Rejection, malediction, combustion. Is rejected, is ⟨p. 146⟩nigh unto cursing, and the end thereof is to be burned. And it seems to have relation to a threefold distinction of time. 1. For the present, it is rejected. 2. For instance or appropinquation, it is nigh unto cursing. 3. For future certainty, the end of it is to be burned. As men commonly deal with thorns: first they cut them up with bills and mattocks: then they lay them by to wither: and lastly burn them in the furnace.

There is a threefold gradation in the Penalty, Reiection, malediction, combustion. Is reiected, is ⟨p. 146⟩nigh vnto cursing, and the end thereof is to be burned. And it seems to haue relation to a threefold distinction of time. 1. For the present, it is reiected. 2. For instance or appropinquation, it is nigh vnto cursing. 3. For future certainty, the end of it is to be burned. As men commonly deale with thornes: first they cut them vp with bils and mattocks: then they lay them by to wither: and lastly burne them in the furnace.