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Ephefia>ha,
Chap,S.
VV
E
R. II.
Jeeke
heavenly
things,
and
you have rebuked them
:
if
you
arc
among(}
thofe that
arc
intemperate,
you muff
ufe
fobriery
:
if
you be with thofe
whole
tongues are ever running idlely,you muff
keepe
filence,or
fpcak
the words
of
wifedome:
ifyou
mete
with
a
furious man,
ufe
meeke.
nell'e; if
with merry companions,
keepe
but
your countenance
with
Chriftian gravity,
and
they
are checked
:
and
if
you will
walke
as
children
of
light, you
muff
fometime convince
in
word the
evill
you
fee
in
men:
If
you fhould
fee a
beaft firaying,
would
you not
fet
it
right! if
a
blind man
miffing his
way, would you not
warne
him!
will you
lee
men
in
the broad way to
deffrudion,
and ever keepe
fflence
It doth
reprove our walking
as
not
in
light,
when wicked
ones
can
take pieafure
in
us, and
with
no
better companions; for
if
our
waycs
were not
like theirs, it
would
fo
fling them
that
they would not indure
us,but our deedes
are like
theirs, and our white livers, wharfoever
we
fee and
heare, dare
fay
nothing
:
we thinke fometime the perfons have
no reafon,
cannot conceive
if
we fhould tell.
Sometime, what
is
it
to
us
! we
(hall
anfwere for our felves, what
thouldwe
procure our
felves caufeleffe
hatred, we
fhould
but
make
them
worfe;
with looking
at fuch clouds and
wind, we neither fow
norreape.
Thefe
are reafons which lacke
of
love
breedeth
:
for who ever,
when
any member of the body
is
amiffe,
heard the head
fay,Why,
let
it looke toit
felfe,
peradventure you
fhall
but
hurt it, let
it
alone;
I
fhould make my
felfc
unneceffáry, trouble the fellow member
of
that body. Or
if
we doe fpeake, rt
is
in
fuch
a
merry carelelfe fort,
that
it
nothing
moveth,
and
therefore they
are well pleafed
in us.
Nay
where
our
lives fhould
reprove the
carnal!
fort, now they
can
juffifïe
themfelves from our prefidents.
If
one
would be proud,Looke
at Inch men,
they
let their children goe thus or thus
:
if
voluptuous,
Such a man
would have
been
as
merry
as
ncede
to be. Our
lives
which
fhould ferret
them from their
darke corners, are
become burrowes
which
they
take
for their flicker.
It
letteth
us fee
what
maketh this great fray
in
the world betwixt
Gods
children
and
worldly
ones, they nickename
thefe,
perfecute
them
fo farse
as
they
dare,
Why
! becaufe
that
the
lives
of
the god
-
ly doe controule
them,
this
is
it
that breedeth thehatred, great
eftran-
ment;
for fo
Chrift
teacheth,roh. 3.
ao.
Every
one
that
doth evil!, hateth
the
light;
Why
cannot the wicked endure the
light!
it reproveth
his
workes; this maketh
him hate
the godly,
a
wicked
man
will have
no
acquaintance
with
him: A[corner
hateth him
that
reproveth him, he will
not
come
to the
company
of
the wife,
Efay
29.
az.
The
people
mould
&lost
one
in
compa
fe
of
Lora
for
a
word
of
rebuke.
Let
none
rebuke,(faith
llefea) this
people
es
as
they
that
rebell again(! the Priefi
:
this reproofc
that the
life
doth
give, made
Cain
fo
hate
t..lbea, that
he could
not
ceafstill
he
had flabbed
him;
Saint
John
faith,
the
caufe was,
becaufe
Abele vrorkes
were
better then his; for light doth
fo
rub
the
galls
of
their