Eighth Observation.
pp. 19–204 passages
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Eighth Observation.
It is a great Judgment of God, to be given over to an erroneous mind.
It is a great Iudgment of God, to be given over to an erroneous mind.
For the Understanding being the leading Faculty, as that guides, the other Powers and Affections of the Soul follow, as Horses in a Teem follow the Fore-horse. Now how sad and dangerous a thing is this, for Satan to ride the Fore-horse, and guide that, that is to guide the life of man? That's a dreadful, spiritual, judicial stroke of God, which we read of Rom. 1. 26. [Greek or Hebrew]; God by a penal Tradition suffered them to run into the dregs of Immorality, and Pollutions of life; and that because they abused their light, and became ⟨p. 20⟩came vain in their imaginations, ver. 21.
For the Understanding being the leading Faculty, as that guides, the other Powers and Affections of the Soul follow, as Horses in a Teem follow the Fore-horse. Now how sad and dangerous a thing is this, for Satan to ride the Fore-horse, and guide that, that is to guide the life of man? That's a dreadful, spiritual, judicial stroke of God, which we read of Rom. 1. 26. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; God by a penal Tradition suffered them to run into the dregs of Immorality, and Pollutions of life; and that because they abused their light, and became ⟨p. 20⟩came vain in their imaginations, ver. 21.