loh.S. 1. Ofthe REsURR acTION. As, havingnothing in them ofthe Patriarchs; So nothing leffe, than th~irchild · of wham they bare themfelves fo much. This, is adulterina ratherthan :J~' tertt : children of the adulterers, rather than adulterom themfelves. And rh'" was no fault of theirs: And CH a r 'r upbraidetl1 no man, but with his ~wn~ faults. Nor, I under!bnd it not, ofjpiritualladultery ; though, that way, they might be charged, as,leaving Him the true Spoufe, the true Me.fia; raking no notice of Him palling by Htm, went after fuch as had adulterate the truth of G o n by devices of their ovilletaking up: Not with Idolatry (perhaps) but (which is an evil!, and dif. fers but aletter) with idolatrie : For, to worjhip images, and to wor!hip mensownc imagiilatims, comes all to one. Thar,they were faulrie of: (and I pray Go n we bt free.) Butthis,ismyfiicalladu/tery, and I would make, asnomoremirades, fono moremyjleries, than needs I mufi. . For my part, I fee no,harme,totake the word in the nativefenfe,without figur~, fo.rmengtventQcommttthatfiwne, th.efinne ofadt<ltery. For (for all their dc 1 pe ftmges) all was not well that way: as tsplame, by Job" VII I. Where, not oneof them durfitake up ajlone,ro cajl at thewoman taken in .tdultcry: bm fiuncke away one after another, till t!Jere w.u not one left. C n R Is T toucheth upon that firing: to !hew,what heavenly men thefe were, that would have a figne fromHeaven, andnone elfcferve them. Were notthefc meet men, to fue for afigne? Were not afigneeven .cafi away uponthem~ • AgmratiOitof But this is not all. For, this they were (faith our SA v r ou a) not here and fuch. the;e aman ofthem; but tbewholebunch wasrto better: not theperfonsonely, but theGeneration fo : not a good, ofthem all. And fuch, youlhall obferve, there be: Not onely fuch mm, butfuchGenerations ofmen, andfaults (fuppofe oflyinr,fwea– ring, and fuchlike) rooted ina fiocke; kept even in trad11ct (as it w~re) and derived downe a6 avis atavifque, from thefather to thefonne, by many defcems, in a kinde of hereditary propagation. Chap.,6.-f. M.1r.8.11, Luk.11. )~• Salomon in his time noted foure ofthem: 1 One, agenerati4nunkinde to their fA· rents, andtheirchildrM, fotothcmfor it: • Another, p~<re in theirowneeyes: lA third ofbigh eye-hr~wes : iA fourth, cr11eU-hearted, whofe teeth were .uknhm to !bred thepoore ofthe earth, lhred them fmall. Such were thefe: and ,,dulterymade way for fuch. For, ubi cormpta(tmt(eminJ, where a generall corruption that way, no good to be hoped for ; the Coumrey will notlafilong. By this, C n 1t Is,. had faid enough; and !bewcd,thatnondabit•rlli, is a fit anf:werforthcfe. Now, this yce !hall marke; theworfe the men, the more import1111.1 ever, and rhc harder to fatisfie. They mufi havefignes, andfignes uponfignes, and nothingwill ferve them : As, no leffe than foure feverall times :were they with C H R r s 1, 1 Here: • in the XV I. Chapter: l Marke VIII. 4 Luke X I. And frill to fee A jiglft. As ofi: as they came, this had beenetheir right anfwer: to difpatch them,wirh aNo!l dabitur, an'd nomore adoe. Other anfwer let them have none :even abfolurely none at all: For none they !hmlld have had. 11. Yet faith He not, :ZVne they !hall have. Hee will be better ro t~em, than they The dcnbll deferve : C H a I s T will be C n a I s T : Redit adingenium: Forgets now ali,Hc qu•lificd N••• had faid ere-while. And, anevil! and an adt~lteromgeneration though they be, yet a Nifi. fignethey!hall'have, forall that. Notfimply N.ne then, but Nonnifi, None (ave; the Negative is qr~alifted : fo qt~alified, as upon the matter it proves an Affirmatwll The Ntfidefiroyes the Non: T{ondabitt~rnifi (thatis)d.c/Jitur. So, onerheylha have: Though not now prefently, at their vQ/umu.r, at their whijlling (as it werc)brd after, when He faw the time: And, though (perhaps) not fuch an one,as rheywoud: have phanfied,yet fuch an one, as they.rather need,and would doe them more goo · (that is) one for their want, not for the1r wanton defires. r And
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