164 : r:A~·S4tnl br 4Brute: Part IT~' b?nd of _Char~ty. He is not Godly that Loveth not all men, even hts enemies, With that common Love that is d1.1e to humanity .and that Loveth not all that Fear the Lord with a fpecial Love'. Pfa/rn I), 4· f&h; I3; 34, 3). & I). 12, 17, I {oh. 3• 14, 23,. &4.7,II,I2,20. Luk..§6.27. I o. Roline{s makft h Princtsand Rulers a double bleffing to t hrir· people_. , It makerh them the more Divine, and bear the more ex– cellent Image of God ; How precious is the name of a David, an H.e~ekj"'h) a?ofiah, a Conftt~ntine, aTheodofiUJ, (though they had .:1ll their fall~ ) in comparifon of the name of aSaul, a jerobMm, an Ahab, a Nero, a Julian 1 Ohow fweet is the nameof a Godly,, . King in the Subjects mourhes ? Even thofe that areenemies to Godlinefs as in them(elves, ( becaufe they cannot endure to b-~ c~arbed and troubled with it) do yet ufe to admire and honour it iiJ their Kings and Gavernonrs. .Authdri.t] and Holinef.r conjunct · are two fuch rayes of the Heavenly Majefly and Geodnefs as place man in the H:ate of highefl:.excellen£y un eanh, and make him fo much to refernble his Creator , as ·bath given fuch th.e highelt place in the efieem and honour of the world, of any morrals : And it is not eafie for a-people to value fuch Holy and Pious Prin· ces and Governours coo highly, or to be fufficiemly thankful for them unto God. I. Holinefs effedcally teatheth GoTernours to Rule for God: To fet him higheil:, and make it their workro ie-ek his Glory , and· to avoid all felfifh conrradidory interdh; and to own nothing . that il:ands at enmity with his honol.lr ; bl:lt to judge that they have mofi happily attained the ends of thci r Government and lives, if they have promored the ·Gofpel and K1ngdomof Chrifi, and the wotk of Holinefs in the world. 2. Holim[.r will caufe Rulers to preferr Gods Law.sbefore th~ir own ; and to be examples to their Subjects of obedience to God ; and to deGre that all men fuould fiand.ia far greater awe of God then of them : It will make them eareful to form all their Laws . and Government to the pleaGng of God, and promoting mens · obedience to his Lttws; and to rake h~ed that there be nothing in · them injurious to Chrifi, or contrary to hi~ Will: le W:ill teach them with 1Javid to enquire of G9d, and make him the1r Cet-tn– fellour : And with (ofiah, t<'> (earth the · B(}ok.. -of the f:~'~w, and . humble themfdvts when they have violated it. And Wtth {ofoua, NOl to f uffer it to depVJr_t o/llt of · ~heir_ mo~&thQ~, bu: .t,omeditate inJ. it • 1 /4/t] • \ .
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