f Lulae- warme tiain 1o. nous La.. edicea. 3 ,/f10,d4t :on oft eApocalypfe. C A P.3. gee about to joyn God and Beliai togetherWith the Leven of .+l+etichrifl. Thefe things fpake hee, which wee atthis day find by experience to be too true. 14. IWouldthou Wert either coldor hot. That is, I cvc uld thou wert either all omiJ', orelfe wouldefiat lati admit a full reformation. He fheweth the horrible grievoufneffe of the evill by a compari fon ,. whereby he preferreth a wicked Religion ; yea, none at all , before this botch-porch bike-wart/mere. But clothnot Luke-warmneffe come nearer to that that is good ? Whence is it then, that it is more blame- worthy ? Certainlyjinn -is-morefunning, Wheregrace se more aboam din. The fall-od the Angels in heaven , left no way for themfelves to come ty'pardon : The finne of our fiuti parents was the more wic- ked, being committed in Paradife; and that idolatry of thofe five and twenty men, between the Porch and theAltar , was molt detc- flable, eze&.8. i 6. God will be fanC ified in thofe that come near him, and hee dotty more eafily endure, that his grace fhould not be known, then that it fhould be defpifed. The fervant that kneweth hie MaflersWill , and doth it not, Jhall bebeaten With manyftripes.Therefore if Baal he God, follow him, Why haltye between both .s if it were hard to determine, whether were more excellent. God abhorreth to come into filch an inquiry. There is more found judgement left in him , whobeing ig- norant what is true, fticketh fall in his füpertiition , then in him, that being inlightned with fome knowledgeof the truth , wavers up and down , as uncertain what he should follow. The mediocritie there- fore is worfi of all, which indeed is honouredof the world, becaufc of that ihew it maketh of a certaine moderation, and peaceable- neffe; Which God notwithflanding in his account, fettethbehind the extremes that border on both fides of it. What then,is it better to revolt to Rome ? God forbid. For here Chrif't preferreth the blind Papifts before thole e. rnels only, who being bewitched with ambiti- on, and covetoulneffe, do fcornfislly rejeft holy reformation ; hee dothnot fay , that the Rate of the whole Church is worfe, as unto which the true foodof falvation isabundantly mitaiftred , which yet there is no way, nor leave to come by in the Chnrcb of Rome. 16. Thereforebecaufe thouart Luse-Warme. The fharpneffe of the punifhment doth alto lay out the foulneffe of the fin ; as which feemeth to be confirmed with an oath. For Outos in theGreeke, whichThrodoret Bez.a tranilateth : Therefore, the Vulgar, Bet , is a word
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