still.—But the miry places shall be _given_ to salt.—But these, as natural brute beasts, _made_ to be taken and destroyed, and _shall_ utterly perish in their own corruptions.—This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage _appointed_ unto him by God.—He shall divide the _sheep_ from the goats—Whom he will he _hardeneth_.—The Lord _bid_ Shimei to curse David, _moved_ David to number the people, _stirred_ up Joseph’s brethren to sell him into Egypt, _hardened_ the heart of Pharaoh, _sent_ a lying spirit to deceive Ahab, _mingled_ a perverse spirit in the midst of Egypt.—I make peace and _create_ evil.—If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, whose names are _not_ written in the book of life; therefore will he give them up.—And Eli’s sons hearkened not unto the Lord, because he _would_ destroy them.—It had been better for that man if he had never been born.—One shall be taken and another left.” These are a few of those Scriptures which are so highly offensive to the Arminian pride of the human heart: I find them very offensive to my proud heart. But the Lord is in his holy temple. Let the earth keep _silence_ before him, and do you give all diligence to make your calling and election, sure.—Get some solid evidence of your predestination to eternal life, so as to render it unquestionable, and your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord. I cannot conclude this letter without sending you part of a remarkable speech, delivered in parliament, Jan. 26, 1628, by Francis Rouse, esq. a member of the House of Commons. “We have of late entered into consideration of the petition of right, and the violation of it, and upon good reasons; for it concerns our goods, liberties and lives. But there is a right of an higher nature—a right of religion, derived to us from the King of Kings, confirmed to us by the kings of this kingdom, and enacted by laws in this place: streaming down to us in the blood of the martyrs, and witnessed from Heaven by miracles, even miraculous deliverances.—And this right, in the name of this nation, I this day claim; and desire that there may be a deep and serious consideration of the violations of it. “I desire, first, it may be considered what new paintings are laid on the old face of the whore of Babylon, to make her more lovely, and to draw more suiters to her. “I desire that it may be considered, how the See of Rome doth eat into our religion, and fret into the banks and walls of it; by which banks and walls I mean the laws and statutes of this realm.