The application of redemption

Thou that art thus deluded and taken aside with the §3invegleings of others, though the Lord looks at them as Leaders into evil, and so will reward them, Yet know thou must, that thy condition is far worse, in some […] more dangerous than theirs, and thy plagues will prove more heavy; so […] art thou from hoping for any […] or pity to thy self, because thou art […], that thy sin and judgment will hereby be increased. It's the sad doom of our Saviour, and worthy of most serious consideration, Matth. 23. 15. Woe be unto you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites; for ye compass Sea and Land to make a Proselyte; that is, to make one of their Sect and humour, one of their hang-by's that must be pinned to their sleeves, melt into their Opinions, and embrace their practice; when they have made him their own, their sworn Vassal, all of a string, that they can stir him and turn him as they will, mark the issue; They make him twice more the Child of the Devil than themselves. That Perdition comes to be their Portion, and Hell for their Inheritance, they are the heirs of it, and they have a double portion there; their plagues twice more heavy, and therefore their sins must carry the same proportion, twice more vile than those that were their Leaders into that lewdness. Brethren, what a dreadful thing is it for one to think of it, The Scribes & Pharisees who were cruel oppressors, […] exactors, who devoured widows Houses, false Hypocrites, blind guides, painted Tombs, Serpents, and a generation of Vipers, who cannot escape the damnation of Hell, and one would think Hell it self had scarce any worse. Yet when they had miss-led some poor Sneaks, and deluded some ignorant silly people by their importunities, and painted appearances of Holiness, brought them to the bent of their bow, captivated them wholly to their Opinions and Practices, what a dreadful thing is it to think that these poor […] ⟨p. 130⟩Creatures should be twice more the Children of Hell than such, who to common apprehensions might seem to be the scum of Hell. Hear and fear, and let your hearts sink and shake within you, you poor […] Creatures, take a scantling of your condition by the former example.

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