Dctrac1ors; For they that in the end prove to be fcditi~m ~ ma,r:k~ them weN j 1 Detrafl••rs; they be firfl: detrafiors: Or ( ~s the_namre ofthe Hebrew wor~hs) Btters. It is; of · shen, a rooth 1 they have teethmtheu·tongties. Ever, thdidl:thtRgthllt nrovesto a • (edition, is slmnci's tongue• . As at firfi, it did (/edition; ) f~doth it fiill,begin in the •Sam.t6.1; g 4 in-faying, in thecontrddtfitan of Coreh. So began he ; Thts Moj(s, and this A.ar~nr Iude 11 • • they take too much npon them, doe more than they may~y.,Law; they.would havo Num,t6.I • . fomewhattakenfrom them. SoAbfalom : Here u nobody"t.O;d~tany ;•ifltl:emtheLand.•;•.Sam.•5· !·. SoJeroboAm; L o 11 :o, what a.he~'Pieyoke iMhir~nthc Peoplci.neckes! ,Meddlenot with! King.u.+ thefe-1Jctraflors. · · H' ' ' c ... I '0 l :w · .\ ,I ic · Th<:n fecondly, ;when tloey have'made ohe fiate prefent naught, no:rt:m~die, we-~ cb'ugm: ·'' mufthave a better for it; and fo, ;uh•nge,'needs. Wha~cbAnge? Why;:Religion;oc · ' the church-government, or fomewhat (theyknow not w~li \'l!liat) fiands awrie. Yee fhall chang,e your religion (faid they of this Day) aridhav'c:<one for.it, wherein for. yourcomforr;you !hall not underfiand a~or~ (not you of the Peop~e? what ybu either ling, or pray.:and-for v:mety, you !hall c~4/1gt a whdlc·Gommumon,-for an halfe. Nowabldfedexchange,wereitnoU > .,__,y,:.~ , •·,"·· .-,1 , What fay fom~ ' other.> ~ You fl1all •h,mge for.,a foe,_Dew chur.ch-go'flernment·:' APresbyteriewould doe.much betterfor youpthan an f{Jm~rchiev .Arug(.perhaps) J' ' • not long after,>!'govemment ofStates, than a·UttonArcl.je;·. "<!)1edJ/e not_with thefe: _, Changers. L. : · ......... : .. : ·g..::r.r:: :, h .. •l ,l'. Now-thirdly, whom you finde thusmagnifyingofJikaNges, and:p,rojm~Hng neW l sedi,;,.,; ~, plots for r:hc People, be fure, they are in the,way tofcd#:i4v-.rfor{mnr1<e.it) they doe ' ' fldire, that is,feorjimire, goe afide; they have their mcetipg$<1ip~p\· abuutdJeif new alterations. Now, ofJcdirecom~sfeditim,fidet'going. Fol'lri£fl.ia1 be not lookedto? intime, the next'ne\v~s is,the blowing of 4 trumpet,andSh.eba's,p!jOclamatioo,WihavtJ• SJtn.to.'i) nopartinDavid. ltbeginsinShemci,itends.inSheba• .Butfo,. at 1 lafr.,all (yee fee) · -- -- comestoone:Shonim all. ·-... ~r :1., L.. ' And now to theMedlers. But firfi will.you bbferv.e,: here a're;.two forts in the. Whar, th<! Text, 'they that medle; and • they, with whom they ·md/e. 11heSeditioru (that Mtd!m, · is)the contriver ofthe treafon; and theMedlers (that is) his complices.,~ And that it is nor, Be not yoar'felfe fcdit~osa : bur; met/le not•with fuch as bee. I Be not the author, or ring-kader; bur,-be no faurour .of.them>'have n~part or fellowfhip·in the bulineffe, 'lX,5 commifcearu, he not amixt traytour : For, mix.t and pt.re, both are naughr. " , · · . As for them, th:tt are in it at themaine(as they fay) he cloth nQtfo much as once fpeakeofthem:Ofthem, thereisnoqueftion. One!y, directshisfpeech rothem; that are brought in on the By. Tells tbem, in fobeing, theyrare as de~pe i.o as the, others. No acceffory here: as is theSeditioru, [o is theMedter;Author, and.Fautor,• all alike. Alike, firft: For, both withoutthe fwe of Go o _and all religion, alike.; Alike :lgaine: For, lyable to thef:1me penaltyafrer,minAmntriufque, , . Well now, What is it to medle, th:is Commifceri ? I would note two things 'to you out of it: 1 ThenAttmofthe word, •and theextent. 1 . The nature, hake to bewonh a note. Commi(cearh, is amixture; What q1an~ 1 T&eNalll'i ncrofmixtr~re isit~ Outofrhe Hebrew word, i1 properly betokens that mixture or of N• co~r~ioi/':: medlcy,.thar is, ofthe light With thedarkneffe after the Sun-fet, in cnpN[culo, i.Q·the '"'I'; owle.light (as we call ir.) That, is Erebproperly : (Thencecomm~th the Poers· Ere- ~m : yee know, what that is.) No this, in very deed, is r-ather a c~nfM.fton, than a, mixture: and might well have beencturned Neconfrmdaris, Be not confounded toge. ther,they and you ; or (as Saint Feter[peaks) Runne not together with them to theJ4me !!'•t.4.~ . confiifion. So, aconfufedmi::trwe it is, or amixturetoconfufi'on. •' You fl1all fee, it is a word well chofen. Take it of the perfonr, anq a. tc~fufed· mixt;m it is. For, even the children of!ight (not alwayes fo wife in their,!tntrAtion) that ts, fome plainemeaningmen are fometimes drawne in too, by fomc illufion or other; tomed/eand to joyne withthe!efonneuf dJrlmejfo. ,As, fomewenrwith Abfolom to the paying of hiJ vow injimplicitie; and were in before they wete aware•.• Sam.•f. uj 0 oo o ; For,
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