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everlasting Happiness, or everlasting Mifery is the thing in Controverfy. And what Wit there may be in it, I cannot tell; but I am fure it is no Sign of a very wife Man to speak contemptibly of a Book, by which he can never prove, but that he must be judg'd at the last Day. As a Mad-man, fays Solomon, who cafteth Fire-brands, Arrows, and Death; fo is the Man that deceiveth his Neighbour, and faith, Am not I in Sport? Prov. xxvi. 18, 19. But what Description or Comparison can be found equal to his Madness, who deceiveth and destroyeth himself, and that eternally, and yet fays, Am not I in Sport? Is not this the very Perfection of Wit and Raillery?

Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker, Ifai. xlv. 9. Do they provoke me to Anger, faith the Lord, do they not provoke themselves to the Confufion of their own Faces? Jer. vii. 19. And thou shalt know, that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy Blafphemies. Thus with your Mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied Words against me, I have heard them, Ezek. xxxv. 12, 13. Do we provoke the Lord to Jealousy, are we ftronger than he? 1 Cor. x. 22.

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There fhall come in the last days Scoffers, walking after their own Lufts, 2 Pet. iii. 3. But, beloved, remember ye the Words, which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jefus Christ, how that they told you, there should be Mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly Lufts, Jude 17, 18. If all that I have difcours'd be infufficient to convince thefe Men, yet let their own Arguments, and even their own Blafphemies convince them; for the very worst that they can fay or do, ferves to fulfil the Prophecies, and confirm the Authority of the Holy Scriptures.

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