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• I . 920 Ofthe GuN~P 0 w DB. a~T R 11. As 0 N• s:----. _;;;___..__--::--:-:::-:-:------------ ennon 3 fpirits. o, Elials fpirit, is a goodlyfpirit 1but CH 1\ r s TsEa,;--:---:-' Manh.u.r. - !~·-'9· ~King.17.!. lohn -f·l.a~ .r. t n·;:. ' . . . . . '"'""'v• . 1fJAn1 ue tu; or t 1 ette a me qutamttu, 1t1snot worth a mite: that Jliritisto •ntt and too faint,to forward their fire-workes. 0 weake, . And, if yet ye doubt, no better way to be refolved,thanbyAdquidve · that, and it will refolve you firaight. Wherefore came Doctor Ul1orten n!11 1 aske fore the Rebellion in the North~ WherdorecameDoctorSandersin;~/tt/be. Wherefore Cardinall Alien, into the Low-Csuntries inLXXXVIII~ To 1 he •nd? tame he out of the Arch-Dukesc•mpehither ~ was it, to {4vemens Jives or~ ~.~nd, them~ By thefemarkes,we cannot but know,CujsuUirit 111, ' 0 ~'101 Itfufficeth, that CH a 1sT rebukeththis_Q>irit:thatiftheybetheSo · . In sus, it is Alim le{m, another Iefm than this in the Text : BAr-je{m for h~l~ltof terpretation,isElymM, that is adeflroyer. C HR. r s Tlikes no deflroyin~: no thY~~the Towne be full.of ~amaritans, He likes it not: no,~hough thecolour be ,.;,.,~ug'~ r~nt En~, yet He~1kes 1t not: ~o, t~o~gh we could mtraculoully doe it,like Eli,/et llkesHe1t not. ltis not Go n s w1ll mthe Old Tefiamenr, thatSionlhouldbebY. 1 inhloud: Nor,inthe New,thatHis Church,on theafl,esof any efiate: Nor that~· t not receiving !bouldbe pretence,for the extirpation of any Towne; much telre,Ki~ 1 ~ domeorCotllltrey. :g . This we learne. But, we come not only for that, but to congratulatethis pdore Towne, that fcaped the fire, and our fclves no lelfe, that !bouldhave perifhedby the fame element, though not ~rom he~ven,yet another way; though not bydicimm, yet by another meanes : andmpubhke manner to ~enderour yearely folemne thanktgi. vmg, that we alfo,by the Sonne of man,were dehvered,from rhepewdcr laid ready ro confume, and from thematch light to give it.fire; that theywererebuked, yea (more than that)dtjlroyedthemfelves,that fought our defirue!ion. Every way,our cafe hath ~he advantage: and therefore bindeth us, tO greater duty. Will ye confider it, in the parties. This, was againfi SAmaritail!; and, by the 'Apojlles : Came commended, by the movers; they were t.Apofl!es :aggravated, by the parties,againfi whom; they were of the Sect of theSamaritans. We are noS•– maritans(I trufi:) but, they no<Apojl!es(I am fure : ) no A;ofl!es, nor of noAp1fto. like j}irit, which would authorize thar,which was reb11kedin theApojlles themfelvcs. And, for Samaritans (Whichfalls to ourturne;) it may be, they count us and callus fo: it is no matter, they called C" it r s T Himfelfefo, then. This(I fay: )hadwe beene fuch as they would have us to be; fuch, asthefe(here) very Samaritans, wee were to finde as much favour,atthe hands of theS1ciety of I • s u s,as didtheS•m•· ,-iwu, at the hand of I E sus Himfelfe; if their ..Q>irit, theircomming,theirfms flood, as His, toNon perdere. . , But we are none. No,if we goe by the markes, the Scnpture fets downe of:hem, the Samaritans will light on theidide. For, let it be enquired, whether pm, mthe wor!bip of Go D, ufeth morerit~~& Gentium, theyorwe(themarkeof tlae Bookeof the Kings:) of whether of us, it may more rightly be faid, Yot•worfoip, yo#knownot what(which is CH a 1 s Ts owne marke.) In a word :let th1s bethecafe,WIJ€tl!er Religion have more windowes open to Itr~fAlem, whofe face looke~morefully that way. No: the looking to Iemfalem,is not the quarrell; the not lookwgroRome,that, is the matter. And fure, this quarrell is much after one in both: That, inthe Text, wa~madea matterinReligion,btK,was none :no more was this of theirs. Non recepemnt,1s no•ll of herefie: 'l{f;n crediderrmt, that, is. But it is not their mifbeleevi»:s.,moved ~e~m the Text: northefeneither. It was thenot-harbotlringmakesallth!sadoe. 0 £ff wouldentertainethem, they might beleeveas they lifi. Vponthematterthen, It a/ out to prove, not zeale againfi their herefie, but zeaic for their ownecntlrtamtmrn J which will not, but d1redly, be made matter of Re!tgton. . . ee Now if ye weigh the dtj/rt~Ciion,ye flJalllinde,though mthe mame, theyagr (fow•ward and dQwnew~rd makes [mall difference). yer,ours wasthe worfc. W "e. · c ' Mi( ,

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