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feffor of Divinity in Oxford, and after Bishop of Salisbury, in a Sermon on Eafter-day, 1615. faith; [That men under pretence of truth, and Preaching against the Puritans, ftrike at the heart and root of faith and Religion now established among us that this Preaching against the Puritans was but the practice of Parfons and Campians Counsel, when they came into England to fe duce young Students: And when many of them were afraid to lofe their places if they should profeffedly be thus, the Counsel they then gave them was, that they should speak freely against the Puritans, and that fhould fuffice,] &c. fo he.

Of Arch-Bishop Lands tract of Doctrinal Puritaniẩm, drawn up for and presented to the Duke of Buckingham, see Prin in his Tryal, p. 156. Divers Bifhops have affirmed that the Jefuites were the mafters of this nickname here in

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England,and the promoters of it. But of the common fenfe of this word, and the ufe of it, I fhall now call in no more witneffes but Mr. Robert Bolton, a man that frequently publisheth his judgement for conformity to Prelacy and Ceremonies; In his Discourse of Hap. p. 193. he thus fpeaketh.

I am perfwaded there was never poor perfecuted word, fince malice against God, firft feized on the dama ed Angels, and the graces of heaven dwelt in the heart of man, that Paffed through the months of all forts of unregenerate men, with more diftaftfulness and gnashing of teeth, then the name of Puritan doth at this day, which notwithstanding as it is now commonly meant (N.B.) and ordinarily proceeds from the Spleen and Spirit of prophaneness, and good fellowship, is an honourable nickname, that I may so speak, of Christianity and grace. And yet

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for all this I dare fay, that there is none of them all, but when they shall come unto their beds of death, and are to grapple immediately with the painful terrours of the King of fears, and to stand or fall to the dreadful tribunal of the living God, then (except the Lord Suffer them to fall into the fiery lake with fenfelefs hearts and feared confciences,) would give ten thousand worlds, were they all turned into gold, pleafures and imperial crowns, to change their former courses of vanity, &c. into a life of holy precifeness, ftrictness, fincerity and salvation. Oh ! when the heavens fball Shrivel together like a fcroll, and the whole frame of nature flame about their ears; when the when the great and mighty hills shall start out of their places like frighted men, and the fearful reprobate cry and call upon this mountain, and that rock, to fall upon him; when as no

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Dromedary of Egypt, nor wings of the morning, fhall be able to carry them out of the reach of Gods revenging hand: no top of Carmel, no depth of fea, or bottom of hell, to hide them from the presence of him that fits upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, no rock nor mountain, nor the great body of the whole earth, to cover them from that unrefiftible power, that laid the foundations of them; no arm of flesh, or armies of Angels, to protect them from thofe infinite rivers of brimstone, which shall be kept in everlasting flames by the anger of God, when their poor and woeful fouls fall infinitely defire, rather to return into the loathed darkness of not being, and to be bid for ever in the most abhorred state of annibilation, then now to become the everliving objects of that unquenchable Wrath, which they shall never be able to avoid or to abide, and to

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be chained up by the omnipotent band of God among the damned fpirits, in a place of flames and perpetual darkness, where is terment without end and paft imagination: I fay, at that dreadful day (and that day will come) what do you think would they give for part in that Purity which now they perfecute? and for the comforts of true-hearted holiness that now they hate? and yet without which (as it will clearly appear, when matters are brought before that high and everlasting Judge) none fhall ever fee the Lord or dwell in the joyes of eternity. Nay Iverily think there are no defperate defpifers of godliness or formal oppofites to grace, which do now hold Holiness to be Hypocrifie, Santification fingularity, practice of fincerity too much precifeness, but when the pit of destruction hath once but her mouth upon them, and they are funk, irrecoverably into that

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