~----~~--------~--------~~- -------------~ no 11 Sermon preached fuonger barre, it will be done. You may fee it in all the former: 1 , Mi~ tab liked an ldoll well; Micab hadagobdpurfe; he told out two hundred Jicles, and fo up wen.t the Idofl: 2. Themen of:Pan liked well ofJPoyling: ~heyvyerc well appomted, ~hm fwordswere fbarpe; Fecerunt, theydid it. 3· They ofGibea: to thetr lull; 1\. ape feemcd aImall matter : they Were amultitude; no refill:ing them ; and fo they committed that ahbominabl~ rviflany. . ~ ._ By this time wee fee, what ama.De ofmifcbiefe there is in thefe few words. For fure; if thefe all feemed right ;and fo feeming were done:' Then are we come to quidlibet aquolibet, any mar:t doeany thing; which is the next doore toconfuftoll,nay confufion it felfe. For fo, noman~f&Uie £hall !>e Cafe, ifidol~try goc up. Alas, what_talkc we of~he foule! they have leall: fenfe oftt, talke to _them ofthat they have feehng• .No mans t,oods, or."JJ;;ife;or life in fafei:y, ifthls maygocon thus~ If~ob.bery, rapeand !'lurtber be right, what is wrong ? See then now,what a wofull face ofaCommon-wealth is here?Idoli and murther fee ne and allowed forgood; done and practifed forgood. A.' gaine, MicaT, a pri-vate man; Gibeah, aCity, Van, a "JJ;;hole Tribe : Tribes, Ci~ -ties, Families, all out ofcourfe. Out ofcourfe, in fl\!ligion. and not in reli.' gion alone; but inm0 rall matters : and fo, that the like nev~r heard of, no~ not among theheatben; -- ·· · Lall:,this was now not in a corner, but all over the Land: Micabwas ':lt·¥ount Ephraim, in the midll; Gibeab, was at one end, andDanat the other. So in th<: midll: and both ends; all Were wrapped in thefame con~ fufiom , . . . . . ·' - But vvhat, !hall this be fuffered and no remedy fought ? God forbid.' . Firll:, the Eye 1 error in the eye, i> harme enough; and order JTIUlt be taken even for that, For, men doe noterre in iudgementbut witli ha• .Zard oftheirJoules; very requilite therefore, that men be,travelled with,' ,that they may fee their owne blindneffe. .Then, that th.e counfell be fol-: R~veJ.3.xs, !owed (dpoc 3.) that eye-{al-ve be bought ofhim and applied_ to the eyes,' ~hat that may .fe<:me to them rigl,t, that is {o indeed~ This, ,jfit may;be,' is bell. , , .. But, ifthey be flrongly conceited oftheir owric fight£and marvel!at CliR<JST(as.they,Io/m9·40· W!Jat,are 1Pebli11detrow!) an<lwdlnot en!fure any i:o come neese_ their eyes : ifwe cannot cure their eyes, what fhall .\Vc not hold their ·bands neither l Yes,- in any wife. So long, ~ ~hey but fee, though theyfee amiffe, they hurt none but tbemfelves ; 1~ ~s l;mt Juo damno, to their onme hurt,.(and tha~ is cno11gh, nay too much; it may be.as mucli as their .foules.be worth.j But that js all, if idlay there; and. goe no further than ~he eye. . , But, when they fee ~mi~ ~n~ that gcoffely; What, !hall their bandbe fuffered ~o follo:Vt~m e!e • the1r hand to be_ as defperate, inmi[-doi11g, as thei.reye darke, 111 m1flakm,t. !P. the detriment of others . at)d the kandall of aO ~ That-maynot be! · -- ·: ' - · .. · - -· ·· - we
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