Sed:.z• .that they can {carce tell you what linne is. At the mofi, they have not learned, or thinke that there is any other breach of the ft't! cnth Commandement, but the groff;; a~'l:s of uncleannef~e: that there is :~ ny iitme agaii1ll: the ninrh, but giving in t1lf~ witndf~againft their ucighcours in open Court: They looke 110 fi.l(- tber into thefix th commandemcnt, but unto the aCl:uall bloody murder of the hand; into the third, but to blafebemie and [wearing; And fo proFortionably in the other Command~ments. For the other alfo, although they have heard .much ofiejm Chrift, and if he be talkt of, pretend a very ·foolitb and falfe pre- .fumption ofhaving part in'him;yet to the knowledge c ofbis perfon, offices, excellency, fweetneffe, effeClua1l :tv1inifiry, and of his ~vhole myfterie, they are meere fl:rangers. And fo, w heri they tbould now upon this _ occafion of trouble of mindc, bee brought by know- ( ) H . 11 ledge and application of the Law and Gofpel, through · cfol;B;,w:and 1 ~~~~~~:the pangs. of the new-birth into the.ho'J P~tth, they rily then ·did Ki,g a~e to ~egm to le:t~ne the very firfi prmctples of ~ehJames direa, fer Pro- g10n; tn (n) whtch they have not fo much sktll (J firabl7 ~atcchc:ticall fPeak! a reproathfu!l thivg) as I could teach a childe of reachtng m tbeafrer· five or fixe yeares old in few dayes. Now when the noon upon the Lords ' h d h . h ·n Day, in all Pariih- old red _Dragon hat .~ rawne t e~ tnto t e Ltns, arChurches rhrou~~hout ·med wtth all the power and policy of hell, and fur.. the Kingdome? 'he~re p ilhed with all- his. fiery darts, they are fo farre from the words) S~ f~rre ability to put 011 and manaae the whole fpirituall arare the[e d&rcUzons • ' . . 0 from abating,thnt his ff;ajefly doth ex pea ntour hai~ds; that itfoouldencrea{cthe nr1mber 9{ SermoNs bv renewing uprm et•cry S#ndr:y i:,z the after-nn011e in aft Parifh {burches-t brougbout t/;t I(j11gdome,that prirnitive and mofi pro~table · c~po(iti&nof the Catechi(tt:t,. wherewith the . peopte,yea very children may be timelyfeafoned, antl in~rufled in a!/ the h~ads of chriftlan ~ligio?J:The wbicb kinde 9/tcaching,toour amendrne;zt be it [pof(,en, u mere dilignrtly obfuvcd in all thi'I(!(ot•med (hhr 'hcso[ £wopr,thcn o[lateit bath bmze hm in 1!.7tgla11d.jfilu't hit Majejty muchmoved with this,mglell, and re[olved ,if we that are his Bijhops ,Jo npt fee are· formntitm. hcre(Jf,which 1 tr~fl w11-fha!J,to re!omn~£»d it to the care of the (iviU ¥agtflrats &c. Rea(ims ofthe I(jn~s dirctlf.ons.jqrpreaching,and'Pr,acber~· t\s I_received them by autho· rity frc>m the hand of ·a, p.ublike Rcgi.f1cr,' is it nor firange and lamemabie, tlucfor all this princely and piomearneftnelfc, ~his t0ulemurcltering neglett iliould yc:t everyday growgre:rrer and gro!fcr? mour
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