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VER.18:
8phefanr;Cháp:z.
311
another,
lam.
5.
Let
prayers
be
made
for all,
T.
Tim. z.
T.
Now
there
is
no
command,
as
Popifh writers, fome confeffe,
and
others
that
will
not
confeffe
it, cannot thew
any.
3
The
more perfonall remembrance
of
one another
doth
arife
from outward
communion, which
by
letter or
face
to face, we have
3'
one with
another,
from imparting our citate each
to other
:
therefore
theApofile by lettertelleth wherein
he
would have them pray for
him.
lames
faith,
Confe(feone
to
another, and
pray
one for
another,
particular
Iaa,.t.r6.
ground
of
particular prayer. For this
caufe it
were
a foolifh
thing,
(though
in
fonte particulars
we
pray one
for another through the
earth) to
expe&
or
bid any joyne
in
particular .prayer for
us
whom
we cannot particularly acquaint
with our condition
;
as,
who
.would
not
laugh to heáre one (landing here
fpeak
by
nameto one in France,
and with
this
or that
to
be
retaernbredeNow
this
external' communi-
on
of
ours
is
diffolved. And there
is
no other
way,
whereby
the
Saints fhould
be informed,
that.
the
Scriptures manifeft
:
For
as
for
foules
abfent,
or
making Angells Knights
o`tbc.
PA,
,
or Gods prom.
pting by immediate revelation, or their
feeing
theft
things in
God,as
we
fee
things behind
us in
a
glaffe,
thefe
and
the
like fancies, like
un-
tempered mortar,fly
out: men
of
their owne learning have futflcieet ,
"
refuted
them.
But
it
maybe thought;Is
it
not more
fit
to
goe
to
God
as
we
ufe
to
come to great. Princes,by the mediation
of
fuch
as
are
neare
theme
OhjciF,
Blind reafon Inuit
not
judge what
is
decent
in
matters
of
God.
A-
gaine,
if
the
King fhould fay ;
W
hofoever will have
acceffe
to my
.9afw;.
prefence,let
fuch
or
fuch
bring them
ro me: he
now
that
thould take
fuch
to whom
this
fervice was
not commended
,
thould know
the
difpleafure.
Chrift
is
now
molt
glorious
and
of
terrible Majefly; the Saints are
men nearer us,and fuch
as
have felt
the
like evills
with us.
Objete.
Chrift
his
throne
is
glorious and terrible
;
but to
us
who
are his,
enfw,
exceeding gracious
,
and he
was
tempted
in
all things
like us,
that
het
:
Ci
el,.
:, r7.
might have
campafsion
on
us.
his
more humility,not to prefume to goe forth right to him.
Oójett.
The
worfhip
of
Angelis
(Coloff:
z.
18.) was clothed with this pre-
Anfw.
tence;
yet condemned
by
the Apofile.
True
humility
is
to
obey
God
in
that
he
commandeth,and to
think fo vile
of
our
felves,
that
none
in
heaven
or earth,but the
Sonne
ofGod
is,or
can
be
a
mediatour for
us.
Bleffedare
the
pocre
infßirit:
Come
unto
me
all
yee
that
are
weary
and
heavy loaden:
when
Peter
told Chrift, Thou
'halt
not
wafh my
feet,
hee
Márh.
ii;s.
was fharply
rebuked.
Thefe
are
(beeps
clothing which covers
wool
vith feducers.
Let
us refs
onely on
the
interceffion
of
Jefus
Chrift.
Aske
them,whe
er
is
the fafefi;Some
of
them
confeffe,it
is
the
fafeft
ECC'
.
to
goe
to God
i
hrift; this
is
expreffely injoyned,
the other neither
commanded
in
c
,nor
newTefiament,as fame
ofthem
grant.Others
fay,
it
is
commanded,but notexpreffely.Befdes, they
yeild it a
thing,
which
is
dangerous Idolatry.
If
a
man
were bid by the King, come
!
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2
to
s