comfortable walking With God. 271 tholewhichoberve mee. 2. Their hitting him in the teeth with the reproach of his former f nnes, fhculd Cerve as a re- membrancer unto him, to revife and renewmore efft&ually andfeelingly thegreat worke of his h&c repentance ; and to open afreiha loan-nine of penitent mares, or at leaf} ofnew griefe, hee can grieveno more, for thofe particular finnes, whichany dogged Shimei, or flanderous Doegbrings intohis minde upon lush occafiòn. For it is the wont of ignoraa t enemies to Gods holyway es, to chargeupon his children, even withmuchbitternefe and infultation,the faults ald fol- lies oftheir unregenerate time. Though God Almighty.háth buried them for ever in his mercy ;yet they will never füffer them to dieout of theirmalice. Though the bloodof Chrifft hash covered them everlaflingly from the fight of God, and fearch ofSatan; yet their bale and dunghill fpite will ever and anon rake into them againe to their difgrace. Thus were Au f un and Beza,tryo great Lights oftheChurch in their times;and to are many' other modernWorthies and Chant- pionsof Chrifi, daily dealt with. In which cafe learnedAu fin fweetly replied to the Donatifts upbraiding him in fuch an unworthy fafbion, with the impietie and impuritie ofhis former life : Looloe, faithhe, bow much they blame my fa:slt, fo much I commendand praifè nay Phyfician. And bleffed Beza, toafellow obje&ing unto him his youthful] Poems; This file homoiívi mihí >ratí man vexeth himfelfe, becaufe Chrif Ei bath vou.hfafed mee hie des ,, chric : Grace. AndKing David, withwhom I fliouldhave begun; whenSbimei railed upon him, and called himmurtherer ; Let him alone, and let him curfe : for the Lord bath bidden him.: sam.1 di a.. Andyet befides this, I doubt nor, but upon there occafìons David; heart bled afrefh for his bloody finite : Aayeftides, for his former heretic and fenfualitie 5 Bezars, for thevanitie of his youth, 3. Their blazing abroad fame fpeciall vifïblc fcandalous inhrmitie of his, and yet to which he is haled,an4 as itwere hurried by the impetuoulneffeof Tome fudden pal- lion, or violent temptation, andwhich is one of hisgreateff griefes, and muchmatter ofmpurning in ferret, fhould caufe idnt to ffrcngthen his watch, and improve al1 his fpirituall` valour,
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