6.Command. vpon the Cori-nançlen ents. 57 The Application. Ith what wordes nowefhouldc I wills çueric one to doliende into their. felues, and to take a view o ftheir ellate before the Lord touching this commandement ? Many braunches of it haue beene laide beforevs, and chat braur. ch is ie which we haue not broken being narrowly ffied by theLorde? The winker of the hande, Ih2.owwill bee our in}fance: but alas ow many :binges make men o,uilticen this ? Ifeseer in feruice again/ the eximre we hate payed the bonder of a `hriffian heart , in cruelly murthcrinçt concerning the ?aver, w hoyet might hate dyed ref ec`trng the mat to r, we oregutltie and fpotted before the Lord. If women and Children, aged and impotent, ficke di feafed that caried noweapon agamfl our caife haste not ff ferre forth beene regarded of vs and fpared, yea defended by vs from our feircer frllowes as by right we might, our hands haue faulted and our loue path wanted to the life of our brethren. If cruelly wee hate wi/hed, (rut in olorirward heartsany diferdcryand vnmercifull fpoyleof our foes w fielde, we haue finnedcertainel:ein this doo:ng.For euen the fpoyle that aChriffian f uldier maketh ofhis enimies in the wárrrs fhou/de fauour of the mercyful!natare, fo neere as he can,of that GO D whome he proffeth, If we bane beene ewer as you heard, but any occafion of the death ofany, eytherprefent, orfpeelier than otherwifoit would haue beene, or of the fhorteningofourowne health/1P and a6rlitie byintemperancie,incontinencie,or any meaneswhatfoeuer ,theiuffice of our vndefiled God doth firtdeit out , and we haw. finned again/ him in this thing. Where then is our righteoxfnes, but even in this. branch ofalluallandhandmurther? for the tongue what/houlde Ifly ? Dab no mans heart accufe him of vnrighteoufneffe ? Haue we newer paled aniefpitefiú' fl.+onder,to the hurt of there whom we fhould haueloucd? Denial! ofit can nester hide it,but conf ffion ofit hath merciepromifed. The nameperadventure of l tinder je odious to vs,andwe ha -d!y canaccufe ourfelues of fo forle a vice. Wellthen, let him change his coate,but romaine the fame m87,11011111. Houe weneuerreported any vnknowen thing to Slauader, the harme of our brethren ? meter whit eyed that matter in the care of another again fl any body ,which yet if it had bene mine owne offence, 1 mould wi /dinghy hate w flied, concealed and couered? FLth this heart of mine cariedester that lonein this refpeli, that true and tender re ,aarde ofmy brothers credit that po /ibly it might, or of duty irfhould I O the God of gods, bémercifullvnto vs, and dcale not with vs according to our Gns,neithereuerrewarde vs according to our iniquities. For lam fine Imay fpeakeit in trueth,andyet in forrow againfiall fl fhthatloteth ,rearefaultiewthisbehalfe. We jbbn0t our hearts whenwe fee thc:r want of loue praucke our rang tea tafpcaIe vn(oesingly. We fay not in ourfelueswith a you fe vpon the matter what om I about to f iy, to whom,of whom, to what end ? Will rt hurt or profit him , what is my delre,hswc fisso/de lw/h if hie' cafe were mine and[ forth? but headily, vnadxifedly , and I fearevnlouingly we fpeake what we fl and almtff fay with the wicked : our tongues are our owne and who fhall controle ve ? Therfore I fay again for this branch of marcher by the tongue , the God of mercy be merciful! to vs and truly teach vs Pfal, r a, bath how we fin in it and how we ought to be reformed of it. For reproches home /ande we? Re roch, Haue we newer curfed thedeafe,nor put aRumbling bloke before the blind ? That yo, haue P we neuer in fulled suer any mans infirmity, or vnIindly reprochedhim with bis imperfeílion ? Of heft /-tongues of ours bow paffe they the bandesof loue heerein? It is our pleafare to be_ Wray the wantes ofothers is our paffime to grieue their fpirites and to gaule them for them, yea we glory in their ignominie,we five hi in conceit ofour feines when we fee them, e. we flreich out our necken and lift vp our batty eies when we paffe by them. Their weaknet is nor boafl all the day long haunting them and riding them as we vfe to fpeake in every corner, and ás very Pharifies we are Man other cafe, we looks at their wants , we exalt our relates , and in pridewefpeakeit, orati eafl inwardly tbin/k eit ,we are not asthofefeey !dieter are. Rare ie that man and woman that with a tender heart comforteth and couereth whom they fee to neede at they wifhtheir ownewantes with the fu Jtciencyof lefasChre coneredfromthe Grath which they deferue. But I trull for the time that is to cane it Thal nester be verified ofvs,
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