1 By the Crofs of Chri, 201 Qweft. 14. Is it not then evident , that other mats fins Jkou1d ;moveyou to be the more Religious and careful ofyourfelves,and not the lefs ?If you fee them ítumble, you íhould look the better to your feet, and not oft your (elves headlong from the Rock that you fhould be built upon. You fhould think with your felves, If filch menare fo faulty for all the pains they take ; how much more painsmuft I take to efcape fuch faults. If they that run fo hard, fhall manyof themmils ofthe prize bycoming than it is amad conceit of you, to think towin it by fitting íh11 , or doing Ids then they that loftit. Queft. 15. Laftly , I would advifeyou to confider, Whether god that ïeth'hisfervants , willfifer you to condemnthem ? And how you can anfwer the challenge , Roan. 8. 32, 33. Aod when Chrifl bathfhedhisblood to Abfolve them, whether is it likely that he will take it well at them that vilifie them ? Be it known to the faces of all their enemies, that [ The Lord taketh pleafnre its hispeople : he will beantifie the meekwithfalvation, Pfal. 149. 4. TheLord taketh pleafnre in them that fear him : its thofe that hope inhis mercy, Pfalm 147. i r. He is nigh to all them that call upon him; to them that call upon him in truth, Pfalm 145. 18. The Lordprefervethall them that love him : but all the wicked will he defiroy. He fuffered no man to do them wrong : yea he reproved Kings for their fakes : laying, Touch not mine anointed and do my Prophets no harm, Pfalm 105. 14, 15. He that toucheth them, toucheth the apple of his eye, Zech. 2.8. For all their infirmities., its dangerous vilifying a people fo dear to the God of heaven. They fhall fhortly hear that joyful voice , Rev. 12. i o. [ Now is comefalvation, andflrcngth, and the Kingdomof our God , and the power ofhis Chrifl : for the Accufor ofour brethren is calf down, which accufed them beforeour God day andnight.] And then they that joyned with the Accufor in his work, fhall be joyned with him in thereward, Mat. 25. 41, 45. The very coming of the Lord to judgement, will be [ to beglorified in his Saints , and to be admired in all them that believe,] 2 Thef. i. o. And what then will be the doom of thofe that vilified them whom Chrifl will be glorified and admired in, you may read and tremble, in Verf. 6,7,8,9. But again I chargeyou all that fearGod that you learnby the accufations of malicious men : and take heed as youlove D d God,
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