r 3o GeneraNdireaia, s fora upon thole, whom the Higheft Tribunali doth mercifully; acquit. To illighten a little, and re6tifie thy judgement in this point ofprivatejudging; conceive with nice: T. Firft, that all judging and cenfuring is not cenfarably *condemned : But that when a man with an evil! minde judgeth emu le and uncharitably of others for fame evil! end. Wee may judge the tree by his fruit. Ifwe fee a fellow conftant and incorrigible inhis lewd rebellious courfes, evi- dently infamous forrotten fruites, hanging out in the open fight ofthe Suine; as darkenefle, fwearing, ufury, whore - dome, perfecuting the power ofgodlineffe, fcoffing Religi- on, unrighteous dealing, &c. Wee may, leaving his finall doome,to the Searcher ofall hearts, judge and cenfure him for the prefent to bee Gods enernie, and in a molt wretched c chrif! :nuking eftate. But in fnch cafes, befldes jut! caufe, bee fure ofa war- the 'Nitrites both rantable callin confcionable c end and no beame in thine for life and do -7 , 1 tfrine,called themowned eye. ri ocrites , for 2. Secondly, let us take notice of fome differences be- caption to his Dif- ) roles : tweene the trueProfeffors, and prophane mans cenfuring. It Mar. 23", 2, 3. differs in ref eet and 26. r. and p 7 Ilerod, Foxe, for I. Of the Objea. The principali aime and object of admonition to o- carnali mens cruell difconceits, and bittereft cenfures, is the *hers.Luk.r3 32. ) dmattb7.5. zealous Profeflour. Dogged they are enough many times amongft themfelves,abouc worldly affaires, and malicioully inter-teare one another like wild beafts; mutual! bawlings about earthly things, wrongs, encrochments, underminings, coozening, over-reaching, ambitious contentions, &c. fill their hearts withmuchgall andgreedineffeof revenge, their mouthes with mutual! barking at, and biting one another. But to the people ofGod, in their Bedlam fits, they are not onelyDogs,but evenenraged Divels,and (well with the very venomeofHell, the overflowing whereof doth drowne all privatedifcords. Herod andPilate behaved themfelves before, like twoangry Maflives one againft another; but when op- portunitièwas offered, they purfued Chrift with reconciled malice, andunited forces. Putup an Hare before two Grey- u hounds
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