comfort4ble walking with God. 349 will expeaand defire exemption ? Veiled be God, that our good names are oyled, fo that the inke will not flicke which is call upon them. There is fcarce a religious Profeffor, efpe- daily of refolution and fpirit to be found, but fome menof the world will charge himwith furlineffe and pride. Where- as many timesoot only the imputation is m if-grounded,inif- taken, mif-imputed, faftened upon him for the moil parr, by reafon of his. Linconformity to the courfesofthe world, and corruptions of the times. z . unfociableneffe with pro fanemen. 3. refolution and undauntednefle in good caufes, 4. Innocency and independency, which begetboldneffe and braveneffeofminde,&c. Bat alfo thole fellowes themfelves, who fo flander him ; becaufe their confciences were never illightened with fight, fence, and acknowledgement of the fouleneffe of finne, their owne vileneffe, the exaetneffe of GodsLaw, purity of his moil holy Nature, f2verity and certainty of his Iudgements ; cannot poffibly chufe but bee paffingly proud. Yet for all this, I would advife all thofe who have in earnea given their names to Chryl ; that they wouldwalke warily, and fo demeane themfelves ' that they give no jua offence in this kind. For when they have tryed both wayes, they flail find, that mercifulneffe and rneeke- neffe to thole which are without ; humility and humanity ; affable ,courteous, and loving deportment; and fo becom- ining;il things to all men in Pauls fence, and fo farre as we color+ may with good confcience, is the better way, fubfcribed [in-; t toby the manifold experiencesof wi0}and worthieft Chri- 'Hans, to winne honour to our profeffion, to gainemoe unto Gods fide,' and topreferve our felves in as much peaceamida a naughty andcrooked generation, as holineffe will pofilbly pelibtki; permit. 3. God in his jail judgemcntgivos over fuch an One The fometimes to fantafticall opinions, odde and abfurd tenents, ceicamdfuft-wee. fwarving braineleffely and fenfleffely from the holy har- " iflutbeiffe cronyof confeflions, and our bleffed pure Orthodoxe Ax- the tides of Religion; the truth whereof, every honea man, need required, ought to feale withhis blood : which when daiParrieNtim faperficiainefkand itsordiQary confort, felfeiconceitecineffe, have
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