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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 ⟨p. 118⟩hear of any thing that should save them. Were it not a sad Epitaph to be written upon a man's Tomb-stone, Here lies one that murdered himself? This is the condition of desperate sinners, they keep off Heaven by force; they are self-murderers. Therefore God writes their Epitaph upon their grave, Hosea 13. 9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self.

2. The prophane, 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 ¹