![]() ![]() Or, as it may be rendered, "to take and destroy" as beasts and birds of prey, such as lions, tigers, wolves, bears, vultures, hawks to which abusers of themselves with mankind, ravishers of women, extortioners, oppressors, thieves, robbers, and plunderers of men's properties, may be compared: or "to be taken and destroyed" that is, they are made or appointed to be taken in the net and snare of Satan, are vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, and are afore ordained to condemnation and ruin: and this being their case, they ![]() So far are these men from acting like the angels, that they are sunk below their own species, and are like beasts, and become brutish in their knowledge and behaviour are like the horse and the mule, without understanding, act as if they were without reason yea, are more stupid and senseless than the ox, or the ass, which know their owner, and their crib and even in those things which they might, and do know by the light of nature, they corrupt themselves and being given up to judicial blindness, and a reprobate mind, call good evil, and evil good, and do things that are not convenient, and which even brute beasts do not and like as they are guided by an instinct in nature, to do what they do, so these men are led and influenced by the force and power of corrupt nature in them, to commit all manner of wickedness: and like them are ![]()
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