very abferva6le. 279 forming his promife, that the memory of the PO fhall be bleJed, Prov. io. 7. The carnal party of that age as well as others, do honour thofe whom their fore-fathers hated and murthered. Math. 23. 29, 30. Teo toyoufcribes and Pharifees, hypocrites : becaufe ye build the tombs of the Prophets, and garnifh the /'eptelchres of the righteous, andfay, if wehad been in the dayes of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Pro* phets : wherefore ye be witneffes to your felves, that ye are the children of them which killed the Prophets : Fillyou asp then the meaftsre ofyour. fathers. The wic- ked ofone generation kill Gods fervants, and the wicked of the next Generation do honour their names,and celebrate their memorial : The reafon is becaufe, it is the, Life of Godlinef s which the fanner is troubled with and hateth : And therefore it is the livingfaint whom he abhorreth. But the name and form of godlinefs is lefs troablefome to him, yea and may be ufeful to make him a Reli- gion of, to quiet his confcience in his fin : And therefore themasse of deadfaint's he can honour, and the form of their worlhip, and corps of piety he can own. And having become fo Religietu, bothhis former enmity to living bolinefs ; and his carnal zeal for his Image of Religion, engage him to make a fir for it ; and perfecute thole that are not of his way. And when the z.miosts and devout people ofthat ace fee this ; they loath that carkafs or Image which the formalhif contendetl for, and many flye from it with too great abhor- rence for the perfons fake wào nom eífeems it ; forgetting its original, and that it was filch as they, that fet it up, and were the firif inventors, X4 For
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