Part II. that troHtleth yeu-?· And will not the everlafting· fruit of it trouble you more ? Then even fay,, that wafh.i~you, or, fwc~p~ ing your houfes·; or -c_uring ~our fores., od1cknefs",,or p~rf:wadmg you not tokill your ielwcs, 1s a troublsng of you ! Qr 1s 1t , ( as the LQrd hath told ms it wil-l be, Matt h. 5. I o, I I. ?ohn I 5• 18, I 9. I P11t. 4· 4, 5.) becalilfe we are not fuch as you, and will not do as you do, and be of your opinion, and forfake ol:lr Lord to keep you company ? Is it 'not with good reafon ?_ When we know you cannot favc us h~rmlefs : and will not anlwer for us before the Lord? We k._now that every rilan-mufl: anfwer for · himrelf, and therefore w_e durfl: not trufi you, if you would pro– mife us to bring us off : It is befi for you to Hqdy better how to anfwer for your felves. B.d't if you are refolvc!!i·on -it , that un– godly you will be, ,and that you will venture on Hell to fcap·ea holy life, why fhould not you give us -leave to pitry you , and to forbear your folly, and to fave our fel.ves ? Will it do you any harm that others fhould be fa.ved? Or that others fl10t~ld be Godly ? Your own fanttification indeed cannot fianfl with your lnfl:s and flefuly plea.fures- : but another mans may. It will take none of your vain-glory , or wealth, or fenfnal delights from ypu7 that another man is fanCl:ified, or devoted tmto God. And therefore be not angry with us, if we obey the Holy 'Ghofr, that ca!leth tous, 'AEfs 2. 40. [Save y,oar felves from-thu untoward generation.] · Object. 0 but (faith- the ungodly crew ) it w.u never· a good. world jince there waJ fr; much Religirm, t~nd preachin,~, r~nd precifenefs, and fo much ~d(} about (erving God ! It \Vtua better world, when we had but a /h9rt Service read 'On Sundt<ties, an.i played, and merrily t~>~ikJ together th~ reft of the Jay ! Tbeh -was more Love r:tnd gr;od mit,hbourh~@d then amrmgft men then there is now : There WM not thm fo m_uch deceit-, andcoufening, and oppre/– fing, ~tnd. covttou[nefs in the world: There WM .mere peace, Pl.nd plent], ~uHJ. a better world it WIU thenno"N. · · · Matters of peace and plenty change often in the fame aoe. · And certainly you-have as little·hind~rance now, from beingnas good a~ yoR have a mind to be , as ever yoar, fore. fathers had. Two thmgs I have to fay to your Obj~ction. I. If this be true that the world u fo bad,·whioh P•trt u it of the world that p.u mean .? Is it 11ll, or fame ? Not 61./l fure; that: wer.e .too horribl~ cenforioufnefs to fay • .'then God would preA .a· 3 ; · fently
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=