23 a: Generafd eiircrr#rons for a raIT,5,sA Atis,28.22. divine authoricie, yet profitable for precepts of morality.) In which Chapter youmay finde, as I have ever conceived, a defcription to the life, and molt exaét. Charal;}er of the good-fellowes of our, times; who are tranfporced equally withadefperate infitiable humour ofravenous feeding upon the froth and filth of their impure delights, as greedily as theOtte flicker in water: and with an implacable enmity againft the purity, and power of godlineffe. For the firft, beare their cry unto their. companions. Verle 6. &c. Come ors therefore, Jet as enjoy the good things that are prefens: and let us .#eedily,ufe the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill our _Alves with coil!), Wine, and Ointments : and let no flower of the Spring paffe by us. Ea us crowne our felvet with Rafe bads before they be withered. Let none of us goe without hie part ofour voleeptueufn°ur : let se leave tokens of our joyfitl- 120 in every Ave; fir this it our portion, and our le it this. For the other, take notice of their boyfierous fwaggering combination, to become bloody goades in the fides, and ctuell pricker in the eyes ofGods. people. For proportion gable to their:impatiency of being croft in their court of pleafures, is their rage in perfecuting the godly. And therefore being refolute to live and die good fellowes, they alto refolve from the fame ground, to hold an everlafting unreconciliable oppofition in the way which is called Holy, efpecially, fish every where it is fofpoken againff. Whence, I fay,theygrow and glue themfelves together_in this com- bination, Verle ao, &c. Let us , opprefë the poare righte- ous man. Let our flrength be the law ofjufiice : for that which is feeble, is fiord to be nothing worth. Therefore let us lie in Waite fir the righteous : becastf hee is not fir our turn, and bee is clean contrary to nur doings, bee upbrai- Ash us with our offending the Law, and objetfeth to our in- famy, the tranfgrefon of our education. Hee profefth to have the kzowledge of God : and bee calleth himfelft the chille of the Lord. Hee war made to reprove:, our thoughts. Hee le grievous . unto us : even to behold : or his life is not like oker men', bis wages are of another fa ton. Wee are effeereed of
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