499 the- primitive f enpíicity and. sl ari i sxnd how odious a praóife it is, of ignorant iviiniitea s, to keep up thereverence of them° oiledoane , or Or- thodoxnefs or piety, by the.£ecret bac&»bitings and reproaches ofothers., whofeperfons.perhaps they Pevnr îav ; car whom they ñewx%once foberly'dif courfed with face to face ; of whole writings perhaps they never read., or thought it not worth their rime and labour to underftand them and yet take it to be their piety to-revile by hear-fay and blind furmifes, and judge in a caufe which they never impartially heard and°rnderftood There is none of thofe Minifters of Eftrifl; whom you reproach, but is to be fervictable to h s matter for the favingof mens fouls ; And yön are fatansinffruments tm block up their way, and to turn away the hearts of people from their brine. If every Minifler. ( efpeeially'your felves) who bath as great an errour, Mould ,-be made odious for it to their ,hearers ; you might all put up your pipes,"and and that your artifice bath firft fil'eneed your felves., by the righteous law, Nec enirrm lex jai/lior. silly of : ()maw. neett artifices arse perire f tasa. Orin thewOrds ofthrift; TOghat me4j?re you mete,* ,(bail l e meafired to )ota coin. Did you fee the uglinefs of Ignorant peevifh contentious zeal, as contrary to. holy Lilt and Love, you would think you fa* a devil, fpitting out fire and brimftone , and would 'never more take it for your honour , nor for a mark of a chold of God. And ifyou knew how every word ofobloquy efpecially by back-biting again It your brethren, o r
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