Imagine you saw a proud Pharisee, a man of a […] tongue full of turnings and windings, he cannot live without lying, he is froward in spirit, and […] not to […] the straight wales of the Lord, that he may please his own will, suit his own humour, bend the Rule to his mind, not his heart to the Rule; one of an uncontrollable Spirit that will contend with God and men if they […] him in a sinful course. Suppose thou sawest this man receive his Sentence at the day of Judgment, and sent down to the pit, For without shall be liars, &c. […]. 22. 15. They who pervert the straight […] of the Lord are the Children of the Devil, Acts 13. 10. And such as sow contentions amongst brethren, and are contentious, and obey not the Truth, tribulation, and wrath, and anguish, shall be upon the soul of every one such, Rom. 2. 8. He hath learned thee his Trade of Lying, miss-led thee into the like perverse, contentious courses, How shalt thou escape the damnation of Hell? Oh thou wilt reply; Lord, it was his counsel that cozened me, his […] and insinuations that drew me to those evils, I had never done them else: I hope therefore I may be pitied, though he be plagued; I may be excused, though the Curt fall upon him, who was the cause and Author of all: No, no, poor misguided creature, thou art utterly mistaken; He is the Child of the Devil, and hath received now his […], thou hearest him yelling in the bottomless pit; he hath his load more than he can bear; but thou art twice more the child of Hell, this is able to sink thy heart with the very thought of it. Thy slavery is far greater, thy obstinacy more, and therefore thy recovery harder than his; he is a slave to his sins, thou art a ⟨p. 131⟩slave to the man and sin and all; he will hear reason if it be propounded, thou knowest nothing, and therefore receivest nothing unless thou be allowed by thy Leader, the less hope that ever thou shouldst be convinced or reformed. The Lord is forced […] let in the flashes of the fiercest of his fury into the faces of such misguided creatures, to bring them to the consideration of him and themselves, and to deal punctually for their conviction, Psal 50. 18. When thou sawest a Thief, thou consentedst, and thou wast partaker with Adulterers, q. d. they persuaded […], and thou didst embrace their persuasion Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
Imagine you saw a proud Pharisee, a man of a 〈…〉 tongue ful of turnings and windings, he cannot live without lying, he is froward in spirit, and 〈…〉 not to 〈…〉 the straight wales of the Lord, that he may please his own wil, suit his own humor, bend the Rule to his mind, not his heart to the Rule; one of an uncontroulable Spirit that wil contend with God and men if they 〈…〉 him in a sinful course. Suppose thou sawest this man receive his Sentence at the day of Judgment, and sent down to the pit, For without shall be lyars, &c. 〈…〉. 22. 15. They who pervert the straight 〈…〉 of the Lord are the Children of the Devil, Acts 13. 10. And such as sow contentions amongst brethren, and are contentious, and obey not the Truth, tribulation, and wrath, and anguish, shall be upon the soul of every one such, Rom. 2. 8. He hath learned thee his Trade of Lying, miss-led thee into the like perverse, contentious courses, How shalt thou escape the damnation of Hell? Oh thou wilt reply; Lord, it was his counsel that cozened me, his 〈…〉 and insinuations that drew me to those evils, I had never done them else: I hope therefore I may be pitied, though he be plagued; I may be excused, though the Curte fall upon him, who was the cause and Author of all: No, no, poor misguided creature, thou art utterly mistaken; He is the Child of the Devil, and hath received now his 〈…〉, thou hearest him yelling in the bottomless pit; he hath his load more than he can bear; but thou art twice more the child of Hell, this is able to sink thy heart with the very thought of it. Thy slavery is far greater, thy obstinacy more, and therefore thy recovery harder than his; he is a slave to his sins, thou art a ⟨p. 131⟩slave to the man and sin and all; he wil hear reason if it be propounded, thou knowest nothing, and therefore receivest nothing unless thou be allowed by thy Leader, the less hope that ever thou shouldst be convinced or reformed. The Lord is forced 〈…〉 let in the flashes of the fiercest of his fury into the faces of such misguided creatures, to bring them to the consideration of him and themselves, and to deal punctually for their conviction, Psal 50. 18. When thou sawest a Thief, thou consentedst, and thou wast partaker with Adulterers, q. d. they perswaded 〈…〉, and thou didst imbrace their perswasion Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
