Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…

So for his […], God hath▪ […] • ly¹ said, that, • The Soul that •neth shall •e the Death. And, ^pGod will […] the head of his Enemies, and the hairy scalp of every one that goeth on obstinately in his satin▪ But because we see not this oft-times instantly effected (many wicked ones ^qlive merrily, and […] easily; and so ⟨p. 97⟩seem to scape the scourge here; for ^rwhat they feel inwardly, none is aware but themselves.) Therefore many imagine that God will be better than his word: they think these things are spoken only ^sto fright men, and to keep them in awe: they cannot believe that God will ever do, what they see him not now do. ^tBecause sentence against an evil work is not out of hand executed: therefore is the heart of the sons of men ^uwholly bent to do evil, saith Solomon. Here is the work of faith then, to believe that, that there is no likelihood of by ought that can be discerned for the present. But, ^xthough the wicked, saith Solomon, live an hundred years, and pass them all over in pleasure, (though it be as many years almost to it, as it was here to the Flood, and as little likelihood to see to of the one as of the other,) yet I know that it shall not go well with the wicked.