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Secondly, as they are powerful and puissant, so are they also §2just and righteous. They have pursued their pleasures, and profits, and pride, and all their sinful lusts, with delight, and therefore it is equal that curses should pursue them for punishment thereof, and especially those which with violent hands, or virulent tongues have persecuted their brethren. Of such men, and of such¹ misery, for that cause speaketh David in one of his Psalms: The backbiter shall not be established upon the earth▪ evil shall hunt the cruel man to destruction.

Secondly, as they are powerfull and puissant, so are they also §2iust and righteous. They haue pursued their pleasures, and profittes, and pride, and all their sinfull lusts, with delight, and therefore it is equall that curses should pursue them for punishment therof, and especially those which with violent hands, or virulent tongues haue persecuted their brethren. Of such men, and of such¹ misery, for that cause speaketh Dauid in one of his Psalmes: The backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth▪ euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.

1. 1Psal. 140. 11

Terror for all them that are in the power of their sins, that they live in continual danger of one stroke or other, yea of death, yea Use. of destruction, yea of hell, and damnation. What time can any of them truly say, I am now in safety, as yet I shall escape Gods vengeance? Do they not know that when they shall say, peace and safety, then shall come upon them sudden destruction; as the travail upon