;22 Let to judge ourfettvsa Tenthly, And under ail this ignorance, negli- gence and'vice, pride maketh too many of them to be enemies to repentance,and to all that would bring them to it : fo that theyare not fo much of- fended with the people for their own faults , as for difliking theirs : fcarce a drunkard a (wearer in all the pariíhis fo impatient of hearingoftheir ,ins, as many of thrfe high minded impenitent Miniliers.Nay fo far are they from enduring tobe accounted of as they are,that they expeet applaufe and great veneration , when they deferve not pardon And they think they ate negleéed or treated ; =reverently, if their ignorance be not called wifdome, and their hypocrite gonot for the only piety, and their carnal difcourfe and con- verfation , (for which God threatneth their, dam- nation, Roma 8. 5, 6, 7, 8, 13. ) be not cloathed with fume fair and honourable names. And when they have thus fet the people fo pernicious an example, they form againt} them- for not be- ing'More obedient to them, than they themfelves' will be to God ; and for rejec`}ing the precepts and reproofs of that Scripture which they have re jeaed anddefpifed before their faces. I humbly- propound it therefore to my Bre- thren, that if they have a people who defpife their Ivliniflery, and turn away from them, and fpeák again(} them, and feek after other teachers ; that they would firff impartially ask their confciences, 'have we given them no caufe or occafdon cf all this ? Is it not long o us ? Have we fo preached, fo privately overfeen and taught them, and fo li- ved, as that all this confufion will not be juftly laid at our doors ? ; Wh-en we have lira truly cleared
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