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I
L'Iiheflans,Chap.;.
Dort. I.
We
are
prone
upon
Ere
trou-
ble
of
Mini-
VEa,1;.
Further, from the exhortation obferve two things.
That
we
are prone when the
t,vtinifiers
of
the
Ge(Jell
are trou6led,to
fall
both
from
them
and
their
Gofpell.
Zach.
13.'7.
When
the /hepheardis
fmit-
ten,
the
jheep
Jhall
be
fcattered.
Mat.26.
56.
When Chrift
himfelfe
was
{lers
to
for-
apprehended and under
the
hands
of
his
enemies,
aQ
the
Dlfciples
for
-
fake them end
pp
their Gofpell.
fake him
and
fed.
And
a
great
part
of
the hearers
of
the
Word
are
fuck,
'
t
sttat.
13.
21. fet
out
in
the ftony ground
;
They
receive
it with joy,
yet
having no
root,
it
dureth bùt
a feat
for
as
Toone
as
tribulation
or
perfecution commeth
becai$fe
of
the Word,
by
and
by
he
is
offended.
We
doe
runne
in
when
we
come to wetting,
we hold
not out
when tribulation
commeth.
No
wonder.
`Jjafon
t.
For
by nature
there
is
in
us,
as
the Philofopher could
difcerne,
an
immoderate
declining
of that
which
is grievous
co
fente, we turne
our
back upon
the
forme,
and
wi'1
not
goe
fo
farre
as
to put our
finger
in
the
fire,at any
hand.
Ttsafau
s.
From
out
child -hood dóth
grow
up
with
us
an
immoderate
love
of
a
pleafant
condition;
we are like
fwallows ,
we
would alwayes
have
the
fummer Sunne, never bee feene
where
winter
commeth. Which
di 1pofition
is
fet
down, Hole.Io.I
1.
Ephraim
wad
as
an
heifer
ufed
to
de-
light
in
threJhing;
the beaft threfhing was not
muzzled,but
did
feed to
fatneffe: fo
we love fo
to
ferve
in
religion,
that
we may be franked
in
a
profperous condition.
Regan
3.
We
are
exceeding
inconftant,ready with the
Jfraelites
to
change
God
with
a
calfe
in
a
fmall
[pace, torejeyce
in
lohn
Baptift
as
a
light, to crown
Chrift to
day
and
crucify him to
morrow.
Which
things confidered
no
wonder
if
the
devill
blowing thefe
coales,
wee
bec
fubject to
re-
volt.
r!°
t
Wherefore
we
mutt
learne to
get
a
confcience
ofour
weakneffe,
for
if
we walke
fufpebling
our
felves, it will
prove better then
Peters pre-
fumption;
this
hsly
faare
of
our
owne
ffanding, will be our true
fecuri-
ty,
whenothers walking
in
their owne ftreugth ,
fhall receive
an utter
foyle.
2.
Again, we muti take heed we
bee
not
moved from our
eftablifh-
ment,as
Peter
exhorteth,
2
Pet.3.
17. Beware
let?
ye
be
plucked
away
with
the
error oft
he
wicked,
and
fall
from
your
owne
fledfafnefe. And
pray
to
God that
he would give
us
that grace
to
fuller,
when
the devifcommeth
to
winnow
la.
The
fecond
thing to be
marked
is,
what
is
all our duties
:
viz.
Dort.
z;
Not
to
be
afhamed, but
to
fuffer in
the
affiîlions of
the
Gofpell, when
the
We
muff bet
Mitt:
Iers
are troubled.
So Paul exhorteth
Be
not ajbamed, but
'hare
ready
to fuf-
1'
o
f
it
,
fer
in
the
of with
me
in
thefufferings
of
the
Gofpell;
and
n
The
fj.
3
.3.
the
felfe-fame
iiec
ons
of
the
duty
is
injoyned: That
no
man
/
hould
be
moved
with
tho
¡
a
ff
idüons
of
the
with
the
Minttters
Gof el. Thus
clouds
of
are gone before
us,
who
have
nei-
thereot.
then (hrunk
from their Minifters,nor from their faith
in
times
of
perfe-
curioo.
I
Kings
t 8.4.
In the time
of
Elijah there
was
agood
obadiab,
who took
an hundred
Prophets
and
hid
them
by
fifty
in
a cave, and
fedthem
with breadand water.
Ier.
}8.7.
Ededmelech
for
Jeremiah.
Paid had
his
onetiphorus,