o Love them that negre a you. rinïental preaching much more than the more- adorned carkaiies of formality : And ferioafnef's is hill acceptable to ferious Chriftians : Yea e- ven tocommonnatural men, unlefs the malicious poffefs them by Flanders with prejudice againft at. Now if this fhould he the caufe that others are preferredbefore you O how heynous were your fin ? As ïf it were not enough for you to nepiea your duty, and todo the work ofGod de- ceitfully , and injure the fouls ofmen in a caufe ofRich importance, but you mull alfo impeni- tent'y juflifie fich a crime,and alfo maligne thofe that have more of the grace and gifts of God than von , and that de mere to help to fave mens fouls ! Secondly, But fuppofe ',hat your deferts be as great as you conceive, and their love to you- as I ttle ; I would further ask you : Firíl is it for their orvn fake who thus hinder their own edificai tion by it, that you are troubled at them? or is it for )oür fives becaufe you have not the refpe which is yoúr due. If it be the later, I need not tell you what it is for Miniflerfof Chrifl thus to leek theÿre Pelves , and overvalue their dwn of _.ern : Ifit be the former, 2 Why doth it not pleafe you then that they are edified, by o- t'rers , tho:,ghnot by you. Doyou think that it is not the fame Gofpel which others ,preach to rhem. P.nd may not that Gofpel edifie and fave dem, by thePreaching óf another as well as by yours'. And if their dif- efteem of you, be. afign or n=ears , that they are not edified by you, is not theirgi e.ir eflleern Of others who areas faithful fizn and means that they areor may be edified them. Third
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