Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 26 t ders in the Churches of their Countrey any other- wife then by a common maintaining the Peace and Liberties of all. What doctrine could more defpe- rarelyundo you if entertained ? Ifyou be once per- fwaded that it belongs not to you to Do % ood, and the Greateft Good , towhich all your fucceffes have hut made way, then all the Comfort,the bleflingand Reward is loft: And confequently all the Glorious preparative fuccefes,as to you, áre loft : If once you take your (elves to have nothing to do as Rulers for Chrift, you cannot promife your felves that Chrift will have any thing to do for you as Rulers in a way of Mercy : This Mr. Owen bath lardy told you in his Sermon, Oft. 13. The God of Heavenforbid, that ever all the Devils in Hell, the 7efuites at Rome ,or thefeduced fouls in England,fhouldbe able toperftvade the Rulers of' this L snd, Who are fo deeplybound to God by Vows, Mercier, Profefons, and high expences of treafure and blood, to Reform his Church, and propa- gate his Çofpel; that now after all this it belongeth not to them, but they muff as Rulers be no more for Chrifl then for Mahomet : Rut if ever it fhould prove the fad ca,1e of England to have fisch Rulers ( which I firongly hope will never be)ifmy Prognoficksfail not, tbÙ will be their fate : Thr Lord eftis Will forfake them, as they have forfaken him and the Prayers ef lais Saints Will be fully turned againf1 them ; and his EleaHall cry to him night and day,till he avenge them fpeedily,by making thee his enemies to lick the dtefl,and clothing them in pieces bke a potters veffel, becaarafe they Would not that he fhould reign over them : And the theyfhallknowwhether Chriff be not King ofKings , and Lord of Lords. 11 3
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