Confounded in their-Language. pulls down their Babel, and by his Doarine layes them o- pen to the world, andmakes them appear as they are, to be openSepulchres, dißemblirzg Flypocrits, tobe but pretenders to righteoufheffe when they havenone at all butto makeRe- ligion a cloak to devour Widows houles, and to ferve their own turns, to make for their entertainment with the world ; Chrift now He opening thefe filthy SepuIchers,hefhews what they were within , how fair, and beautiful, and holy foever they feemcd to be without : This made them fo mad, as to 0 perficute him even to death, nothing would ferve them but his blood, and the cruellett death was too good for him : yet thefe were men ofno low principles(as men think)theywere the gravel, the foberefl-, the the learnedefl, the ftric - eft obfervers of the Law, and the teachers of it to others. Men higheft in efteem, theflriteft for worfhip, according to the pattern : they feared God (as they, and generally all men thought) and loved their neighbour, and did righteous things to men, and herein was their glory. Now fome among us go farther then all this ; they firive to walk according to the rule, andwherein they come fhort, they havea Mediatour andan Intercefour, and that is Jefus Chriftwho died at Jerufalem, whom the fewes would not acknowledge, but crucified ; and they will repent and be- leeve in him. And now Beloved, thefe have builded up Babel higher then the other : for alas, this is nothing but wearing agarment of linfey-woolfey, this is nothing but f wing a new peice into anoldgarment, andmalting the rent worfe ; this is but puttingnewwine into oldbottels, and the bottels arebro- ken, andboth bottels andwine (as to thefe men) utterly loft. They think man muff do, and man muff teach, and man muff inform,and feenot that Jefus Chrift is theonlyTeacher, the only Matter, the only Guide : th-ey, mufffind out, and they mufffludy, andthey muff co!leE7, and they muff gather here a flower and there afiower, and this they prefent to the peo- ple as aprecious pofie, whereofthey-themîelve in the own experience knownothing at all but they have fought it out by their learning, and ftol'eWit_ out of othfr mens la- bours ; Are thefe (think you) Prophets-and-Labourers ofthe G 2 Lord 3 Ma r, 23:7
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