Objetf. 3• · . .our fo{C~fa· · .thers had no preaching, yet are (avccl. V'fnJW· · Their con- . 4emnation fuall be c:afie.r. '· ·TheSaints fore I, but our fore-farhers (will others fay) were never troubled vvithfo many Sermons, and yet wehope they are well, and in Heayen. . Our fore-fathers wanted the meanes, and that iullglorious Noone-ride ofthe Gofpell of Iefus _ Chri!l:, which we ~y the grace and mercy of God enjoy. And therefore whofoever of them peti– ihed without thcm,tball certainly be beaten with fevver !l:ripes, than thofe that fuut their eyes againfi the fa ire and bleffed Sun-ihineof Gods holy truth, which is fhed round about us, and if it be hid, it ifhidDnely to thoft that perifb, in whom the God of thit ~rldh~Sth blinded the eyes of their minde. ~ Befides, if it fo pleafed the Lord in his jull: and · - Wureb~und fecret judg(}ment to fuffer fome of our fore-fa- , tobletfe God, · h 1· d ..l • d h who hath t ers to tve an . ate un er t e tyranny and darkdealcmGre neffe of Antichrift; bow much are we bound to 1 gr_ahiou!ly bldfe God, that we are borne and brought up ·in ; Wlt us. . the light of the Gofpell ; anclt what heavie plagues and great damnation doe wee bring up– on our felves, if wee negleCt or defpife fo great Objefl-.4. -. falvarion. · - _ I, bu.tyetfurther; (will fome fay) we::have li– Vf'd fomeof us fortie, fome thirtie, forne twenty yeare.s, \vithout fbmuch preaching, and yet have h'olden good credit and reputation in·the world, and profpered inourwaycs, would yoll now have us fo fo rwart! in runnil)g to Sermons? · ·. ,! Strange it is to fee how wife the fimplefi are in · matters oftbeworld,about their temporalf fiate, but how ftmpJe and blinde the wifell: worldlings are in the affaires ·of Heaven, and about their ' greateft
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