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<P>Concerning This pre&s;ent <HI>Cain</HI> in his Generation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen 4.</NOTE> the unbelieving and wicked Heathen,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 3.</NOTE> <HI>Rom.</HI> 1. or fal&s;e Chri&s;tians, <HI>Matt.</HI> 24. <HI>Mark.</HI> 13. The mightie ones,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 10. 11.</NOTE> Murthe|rers and Tyrants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 52. 68.</NOTE> <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 5. 29. <HI>Ierem.</HI> 7. 19.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 20.</NOTE> By whom Satan is turned quite loo&s;e now;<NOTE PLACE="marg">4. E&s;dr. 15, 16.</NOTE> As who are &s;hedding in|nocent bloud, <HI>Hezek.</HI> 22,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 2. 18. 12&punc; 94. 99.</NOTE> ri&s;e or beare up them&s;elves again&s;t God in Heaven upon the poor and afflicted,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierem. 23.</NOTE> <HI>Act.</HI> 4. and do not &s;pare the very Righteous for the maintenance of the hypocri&s;ie and lyes of the di&s;united,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 4. 10. 1 Tim. 1. 6.</NOTE> di&s;tracted, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. and divided <HI>Rom.</HI> 16. Sectarian, rayling and di&s;puting of their Shep|heards, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Zachar. 10. 11.</NOTE><HI>Hezek.</HI> 13. 22. 34<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 7. 23, 24.</NOTE> The fal&s;e Pro|phets,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 20.</NOTE> cruell ravenous Wolves and Hirelings, <HI>Iam.</HI> 5.</P>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 3. 24.</NOTE> _GOD, who from the be|ginning <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 6. 7. 19.</NOTE>of the world <NOTE PLACE="marg">Syrach. 16. 40.</NOTE>hath puni&s;hed the un|godly cour&s;es of the children of men, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 40. 41. 55. 56.</NOTE>de&s;troyed or rooted <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Malach. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE>them out from before his face; He is in being &s;till, and will forgive nothing now <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.</NOTE>to the Devill in his Members, nor yield <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1. 2. 9.</NOTE>ought to the unbelieving and godle&s;&s;e &s;coffers and &s;corners in their pre&s;umptu|ous and uncon&s;cionable actions; who <NOTE PLACE="marg">Epi&s;t. Jud. 2 Pet. 2. 3.</NOTE>&s;hal do pennance in hell, for the de&s;tru|ction <NOTE PLACE="marg">Malac. 3.</NOTE>they have practi&s;ed hitherto in the <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 2. 89. 119.</NOTE>world. For God will have a Man yet according to his everla&s;ting Righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 9. 23. 30.</NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 17.</NOTE>for the &s;evering of the bad from the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 3. 13.</NOTE>good, him that &s;erveth God, and him
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that &s;erveth him not, by whom he hath connived long already to the world, and the children of wickedne&s;&s;e in it, with a <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 6<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">. 102, 109, 140, 143.</NOTE>great deal of patience, &s;uffering him|&s;elf to be mocked, &s;coffed at, buffeted, or <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 50. 52. 59. Mich. 3. 4. 7.</NOTE>beaten upon the cheeks for his Names and the truth of his Words &s;ake, yea to be <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4.</NOTE>reviled, &s;landred, and per&s;ecuted. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 7</NOTE></P>
<P>Tho&s;e under the &s;econd or New-Te&s;tament, are not at all allowed accor|ding <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 6.</NOTE>to the Doctrine of Chri&s;t, his Di|&s;ciples and Apo&s;tles, to Judge, or a|venge <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 24.</NOTE>them&s;elves upon their enemies, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 4.</NOTE>for the maintenance of their old waies, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mark. 8. 13.</NOTE><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.</NOTE>upon the prevailing unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; being, they ought not to love, but to <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12.</NOTE>hate, deny and die unto them&s;elves ac|cording <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>e</HI> Joh. 12.</NOTE>to the &s;infull generation, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2. 7.</NOTE>8. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 6. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. or to be mortified <HI>Col.</HI> 3. and to recommend all <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 17. 18, 21.</NOTE>Revenge to God, that judgeth righte|ou&s;ly.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 9. 12. 14.</NOTE> But how the People of this pre&s;ent and la&s;t World, have ob&s;erved or con&s;i|dered the Kingdome and Judgement of
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<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.</NOTE> God, in regard of the fundamentall De|liverance <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 3. 10. 12. I&s;a. 45.</NOTE>of his Elect, or the univer&s;all <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 9. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">7.</NOTE>everla&s;ting Redemption of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> ac|cording <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 65. 66.</NOTE>to Regeneration, through Hope and Faith in God the living Well, <HI>Ierem.</HI> 2. 17. 30. That &s;ame many &s;hall find and feel in hell, with everla&s;ting &s;hame and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;a. 5. 29. 33. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> 49&punc;</NOTE>confu&s;ion, <HI>Daniel</HI> 12. According to which it &s;hall be made known and ma|nife&s;t, how it came that Satan was let <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 20.</NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 9. 19. 52, 68, 94.</NOTE>loo&s;e thus far, by the mightie ones; the Murtherers, <HI>Ierem.</HI> 7. 19&punc; and Tyrants, who do hinder the deliverance of <HI>Zion,</HI> and would have it made altogether <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">0.</NOTE>void and of none effect, by their <HI>Cain</HI>-like, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 John. 3.</NOTE>fierce, envious, <HI>Iam.</HI> 3. 4. and impla|cable <NOTE PLACE="marg">4 E&s;dr. 15, 16.</NOTE>practice, <HI>Mich.</HI> 3. For the abun|dant <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 1. 26. 59.</NOTE>nnocent bloud, <HI>Ierem.</HI> 2. 7 of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 16. 18.</NOTE>&s;lain, poor and guiltle&s;&s;e &s;ouls, that hath been &s;hed for &s;uch a time hitherto, yea, from the beginning, in this bloud-drunken Babel, or murthering City of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 22. 24.</NOTE>this fal&s;e <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> and the de&s;truction <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 12. 79.</NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.</NOTE>of the poor that were de&s;troyed by the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 4. 10.</NOTE>Heathen or fal&s;e Chri&s;tians, for the
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maintenance of the hypocri&s;ie and lies, of the di&s;united, di&s;tracted, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1. 6. and divided Sectarian, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. contentious <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 16.</NOTE>cour&s;es, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. of tho&s;e bold and un|profitable <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tit. 1.</NOTE>Bablers the fal&s;e Prophets; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 24.</NOTE>That &s;ame &s;peaketh yet, although the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 10. 11.</NOTE>men be dead, and &s;hall be judged <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mark 13.</NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jerem. 7. 8. 14&punc;</NOTE>both here in time, and hereafter in eter|nitie, upon every one, according as he <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;&s;. 5.</NOTE>doth &s;hare in the guilt and cau&s;e thereof; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 6. 21. 22</NOTE>For which cau&s;e there is no peace at hand for this <HI>Cain,</HI> in his generation, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 3.</NOTE>who never de&s;ired to &s;pare the very <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 5.</NOTE>righteous, no nor God him&s;elf, in the poor and afflicted hitherto, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10. 94. 119.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mich. 3. 7.</NOTE> WHere the &s;erious Exhortati|ons, Warnings, and Threat|nings <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 4. 10.</NOTE>of the Power and Truth of the living Word of God, will <NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos 9.</NOTE>not avail nor help at all, there the Sword <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 9. 27, 63. 65. 66.</NOTE>of Gods Vengeance, <HI>Hezek.</HI> 21. 33. His furious wrath, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 13. 30, 31. Death and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierem. 30. Revel. 6. 19, 20, 22.</NOTE>everla&s;ting helli&s;h Condemnation, mu&s;t and &s;hall help. <HI>Iam.</HI> 2.</P>
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<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor 5.</NOTE> THE Righteous lives not to him|&s;elf, <HI>Rom.</HI> 14. but of (or by) his <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1. 9. 11.</NOTE>Faith, <HI>Habak.</HI> 2. <HI>Galat.</HI> 3. <HI>Heb.</HI> 10. But the Heathen or fal&s;e Chri&s;tians, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 John 5.</NOTE><HI>Matt.</HI> 24. <HI>Mark</HI> 13. which through vain cour&s;es, are &s;o drowned in evill, and &s;o <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 4. 5.</NOTE>blinded in it by the Devill, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 4. that <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 10. 11. 12. 18. 24,</NOTE>for matter of Light, in behalf, or con&s;i|deration of the &s;o long before our eies, continuing things, works or practi&s;es, touching the great Di&s;tre&s;&s;e and Tribu|lation, <NOTE PLACE="marg">J&s;a 9, 27. 44, 50, 56. 59, Hezek&punc; 16.</NOTE><HI>Luk</HI> 10. 11. 12. 17&punc; 21. They have not any thoughts more of Faith or Con&s;ci|ence, no not of humane Rea&s;on at all; And are become like <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomor|ra,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 18.</NOTE>Rom. 9. In&s;omuch, that they had ne|ver <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2. 7. 12.</NOTE>any de&s;ire yet, but once to con&s;ider, (or take notice of) the Kingdome and <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 14.</NOTE>Judgment of God, about the fundamen|tall Deliverance of his Elect, according to the Law and Te&s;timony, neither care|ing <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. Jerem. 7.</NOTE>for God in Heaven any more, nor re|garding their Neighbour in the world <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 3. 4, 5.</NOTE>here, according to the &s;ame; yea, through their Murtherous and envious
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Practi&s;es, not &s;paring the very Righteous <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 3. 4.</NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 3.</NOTE>among them&s;elves, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10. 94. The&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 10.</NOTE>I &s;ay, &s;hall farr &s;urpa&s;&s;e the unbelievers <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 65. 66.</NOTE>and wicked of old, in condemnation on that day. <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 7. 58, 59, 63, 69, 82.</NOTE></P>
<P>And fora&s;much as &s;uch men have no place more with God neither in <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mich. 7.</NOTE>Heaven, nor here upon His Earth; Let them by no meanes imagin, as if the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 20.</NOTE>World did appertain unto the Devill, <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 40.</NOTE>who hitherto hath continued loo&s;e through them, as his Members; For the eternall God, which hath drown|ed <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 6. 7. 19.</NOTE>the like Scoffers and Mockers with the Flood, and con&s;umed others with fire and brim&s;tone from Heaven: <NOTE PLACE="marg">Epi&s;t. Jud.</NOTE>He is in Beeing &s;till, and hath connived <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 13.</NOTE>long already to the Devilli&s;h waies <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 5.</NOTE>and practi&s;es, in the Children of ma|lice, that never de&s;ired to &s;pare the Righteous.</P>
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<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 12.</NOTE> HE that de&s;pi&s;eth me, and doth not <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jerem. 23. 30.</NOTE>receive my Words, hath one already <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 4. Revel. 19.</NOTE>to judge him: The Word that I have &s;poken, that &s;hall judge him, which is living, powerfull, and &s;harper then any two-handed &s;word.</P>
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