The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

This fearful estate is called Damnation, and draweth¹ after it the full height and top of all iniquity, hatred of God, obstinate Unrepentance, final Desperation, and such like. Wherefore the ^qApostle, to express the sinfulness of these damned Spirits, calleth them Spiritual things of Wickedness; that is, the spirits wholly drowned and swallowed up in wickedness. And our Saviour Christ, John 8. 44. The Devil is a Liar, & the father of Lies; and when he speaketh a Lye, he speaketh of his own. Finally, he calleth sin, The doing of the lusts of the Devil. As ^rJohn doth, The works of the Devil: telling us, that ^she sinneth continually (for that is the force of the present tense ⟨p. 231⟩from the beginning, ever since the World was made. Therefore he is called The ^tunclean spirit, The ^uwicked one, yea, The ^xTempter: not only vile and wicked himself, but tempting and soliciting other to it: for as they fear not to oppose themselves directly against the most high Majesty: so towards men they cease not to use all means that may be, both force and fraud, to draw them away from God.

This fearefull estate is called Damnation, and draweth¹ after it the full height and top of all iniquitie, hatred of God, obstinate Vnrepentance, finall Desperation, and such like. Wherefore the ^q