Heaven taken

1. The ignorant, who shut their eyes against the light, and refuse to be taught the way to Heaven, Hosea 4. 6. Thou hast rejected Knowledge. The Hebrew ⟨p. 117⟩word ^*signifies, to reject with disdain. As I have read of a Scotch Bishop, who thanked God he never knew what the Old and New Testament was^*. I wonder where that Bishop took his text.

1. *[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
2. *Act. & Mon•m.

2. The profane, who hate to be admonished, and had rather die than reform, Amos 5. 10. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate. These keep off Heaven by force. Such were those, Acts 13. 46. Seeing you put away the Word from you. The Greek word may be ¹rendered, seeing you shuff it away with your shoulders. As if a sick •n should bolt out the Physician, lest he should cure him, Job 21. 14. Who say unto the Almighty depart from us. God is loth to b gone; he woes and beseecheth sinners to accept of terms of mercy; he is loth to be gone, but sinners will have him gone; They say to him, Depart. May not we say to these, quis effascinavit? who hath bewitched you? What madness beyond Hyperbole is this, that you should not only forsake mercy, but fight against it; as if there were danger in going to Heaven. These who put away salvation from them, are felo de se, they do wilfully perish; they would not