Injruflionr for 11 right eom[Drting · -- -·- ·- _____ __., ________ SeCt. -2. --- -----_.:... . Curfo pe Mer(;z:. ([itid the ~ngell of the L 0 RD.) curfeyee hitterly the Jn~a6itants thereof: bectftl[eihg came mt to the helpe of the Lord ax.ainft the mighty, Iudg.s .23, They have not helped the people dfGod. {o !lmch as ~vith any hearty fellow- feeling, wra£Hing wuh God.m prayer, fet daye~tb "fSeke the returne of GoD ~ face and favour, &c. Jrf[en they are of the .world, which have their portio;: in thi& life: who feele nothing but worldly lofies,know nothing but earthly forrows,rdlifu nothing but things offenfe.Ifthey bee frung with a deare yeare, rotte of cattell, lo{fe by furety-fhip, !hip-wracke, robbery, fire, r§c. they houle and take-on immoderately. But let Jofeph hee affiitled, Gods people in difgrace, the Mmifl:ry ha- ,zarded, (hrifl Spoufe fit in the duff, the D aug;hter of Zion weepe bitterly, and have none to comfort her, &c. And thefe mercileffe men are no whit moved ; They have not a teare, a groane, er figh to fpend in fuch a rufull cafe. Whereby they infallibly remon· fl:rate unto their owne confciences, that they arc no living members of Chrifts myfricall body; have no part in the holy fellow!hip of the Saints, no fparke of fpintualllife, no acqu:1fntance at all with the wayes of Go n : but coqtinue curfedly carele!fe, what becomes of. the Gofpell, or Gods Cl1lldren; fo that they may rife, grow rich, and Oeepe in awhole b . • . skinne. . p v tDeummverttate ·n h" · · 1 b h d r.. dJ creperu q11;trere., nmffe y t lS time now, lS 1e "'eco~ne t e P ruNtt...4r t tibi er it (upe•borum vel [ong, table-tall<e to thoG: that fit m the .f..'~te, Mujick! malorum homi 'utm ne- to grc-at men at their feafrs~ a By-word to the Chitarm quitiam(i~jti;ure, 11tia of fooles, and the Children of vill.ines, m::n v;/erthm ~bon_fl(ir. ab zOu cod!ttur the ea--th, whofe f -:ther> hec would have d1[dained to "' rz 1vs, qttomo a eu h ..h · d Jb · fl ./., d 1 ,. • ) quotidie pr.edicatur. ave /et wtt the ol:,ges oJ u gc~. An w 1a. tnen · ~ofliam & quicquid , . vottmt, qteicquid petttnt) Deo, in !uxur~s (uis (;,~ ··o r. vivij s-vo!mt confitmcr~, in fPdluutJ. irt n11gu, in fomicatiotltbli1 ,i,1 ebrietatibt!A. J ~ bi1 t olunt confumere, qttO t11 fiJrrallt ab:mda· re,& tunc p!tlant, quodbonus fit 7JeWA ,qfia;Jdo i!:t6 pr.e(lat tPufc corr11mpant:1r SC6i dMt •I· liqttu, Ecr;etcmpora ajper.l[Hn_t,& a{fe·iora crunt. Pei·iJl.ra[periora proficzt mag11 ec<lefia, · Evrn
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