8.For mockings_. and knfible lhine upon tbc:.foule, with the love and light of hii countenance:, is llQ great matter : aut.to rc:ft invincibly upon his mercy thorow Cl1rijl';'·when hc:e grindcs thee to powder, that's the Faith. Thuu llafi before thee for t}lis purpofc a matchleff~ prece-. dent. Thus cries holy Job, vexed not only with an unparalleld variety and extremity of outward aftH-. aions, but alfo with thevenome Dfthe Almighties llrr~n, drin~ ing Hp hu JPirit. Th() hu flay mce, )et wtll. l.trHfl in him: Cap. I 3·15. So ~br.aham,1\gm. 4· 18•. Hall: thou given thy name fl:outly to Religion, ;~nd . docfr thou O:and on Gods fide with refolution ? And art thou therefore villanouny traduced with flande.... rous, odious, nick-names of Puritan, Precifian, . H y-. £ocritC!, HumoriO:, Diffembler, &c. Confider then . for thy comfort; that gracele(fe wretches, when hee was upon the~arth, e\\lled thy bldfed·'Lord and Saviour, Dive//, See M4tth,t0,1.5• ?oh. 1'~ zo. which paf... feth all~ .I am perfwaded, that any ~cl.runken Befiat cd vc:r faO:ened upon thee. Contemnc. thou therefore fgr ever, and trample·upon with an humble and tri.. umphant patience, all their contumelies and contempts. Paffe-by nobly without ·touch or· trouble. · without wound or paffion, · ~he utr:noO: malice of the m oft fcurrill .tongue; the batefr gibe ·of the impureft Drunkard. Doth the World~ carnall men, thine owne friends, formaH Teachers fuppofe, and cenfure thee to bee a d'iffembler in thy _Profeffif)n ; and will n:!eds cot~currently and confidently, yet fafHy, faO:en upon thee the imputation of hypocrifie ? An he~wy charge I Yet for all this, Let thy truly-humbled heart, con~ious to it felfe of it's owne fincerity in holy lervices, Jikc: a tlrong pill~r of bra fie, ~ate backe all theidm.. poyfoned ·arrowes ofmalice ·and miO:ake this way without any dejection, or difceuragement ; .Onely·. .take occafion hereby ' to ftarch more thorowly, and .. ' walke .
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