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Ephefians,Chap.6.
VER.IO.'
heathen men,
as
thofe Areopagites
have brene
fo
impartiall that they
have judged
in
the night, that they might not
be
moved
to
injuff
pro.
ceeding by the countenance
or perfon.
Which
bath not
onely
comfort for
poore
ones,but
a
double inftru-
Qion,
r.
To
fhake
a
great many
vaine hopes
:
for you
have many
that
hope well
they
(hall
goc to God to reft when they
dye
:
aske
them,
Why
they thinke
fo
becaufcwe have
knowne
a
great
deale
of
mi-
fery
and
forrow here,
as
much
as
any one
poore
man
:
But
though thou
haft
never fuch motives
of
commiferation, thefe
will
not
helpe,
if
thy
caufe be
not good,
if
thou
canft
not
by
a
working faith
plead
thy
in-
nocencie,
God
is
no
refpeder of
perlons. Others
becaufe
they
are
in
better
and
more
glorious
effare,
they
thinke the
Lord
will
let
them
finde
him more eafte: for he
looketh not,
as
they
thinkor
fuch
ffriEt-
neffe
in
them
as
he
doth
in
others,
but
God
bath no refpeét
of
perfon,
you
(hall
be (tripped ofMafferfhip
and
Gentry,whcn
you come before
him. Others, they
thinke to
finde
God
merciful) becaufe
they
are
ig-
norant,
and have
not meanes, but
God
he will
not
looke at this, bee
will look
ar
faith manifeffed by good
life,
if
this belacking
it
will
go
a-
gainft
thee,Ram.2.l2.S,
ch
at
are withoutthe
Late perifh without the
Law,
becaufeGod
wil
not for
by- matters decline
from righteous
judgement:
fo many becaufe
they by
profeffion are his
people,
and doe heare his
Word
fometime,
and receive
:
but
it
is
not
this
refped
that God
judgeth by, thou art not
a
doer
of
the Law, though thou
knoweft
it never fo, and
braggeft
of
ir,
God
will condemne thee
becaufe hee
looketh at
the thing it
felfe,
not
at any refpeEf in
thee,
Rom. 2.
13.
Luk. 13.
27. So preachers,ifthey would
fay
they
have
taught others,
if
they
live not
according,
God
bath no
refpeâ
of
perfon,
and
there.
fore will fay, Depart
yee,
be.
ctitat.7.
23.
So that we mutt not )cane on
fuch fandie
foundations, truft
to
fuch
reedes
as
thefe are, but
feeing
we
call
him Father
that
judgeth without
refpeét
of
perfon;
let
us
paffe
our convcrfation
in
feare and
trembling,
¡
Pet. 1.17.
This
teacheth
us
that
we
fhunne
this vice, Eph.
S.
r
.
thofe that
are
the
beloved children
of
God
muff
follow
him
:
Sometime
men give
allowance
intheir
hearts
of
men according
to outward things, lam. z.
they knew men according
to the
flefh,
for
it
is
not that bare preemi-
nence
of
feate,
but
the
inward eftimation
fignified
by the other
that
is
there condemned. Again, what maketh
us in
force wee
cannot
fee
great faults? we immoderately extoll little things when commenda-
ble,
in
others
we take any moate fo hainoufly, and
if
they
tread awry
we
cannot
fatisfie
our
felves
in
difcommending
it,
the ground
ofit
is
refped
of
perfon,
one
is
gracious with
us,
the other
out
of
favour.
V
E
R
S
E
Io.
Finally,
my
brethren,
be
firong
in
the
Lord, and in
the
power
of
his
might.
Now
followes
the
conclufion
of
the Epiffle:
in
which are three
things; Firft,
an
exhortation, to the
2i.
verfe.
Secondly,
a narration
of