A choice Bed of Spiees. they may not bring Ton thetrice;-,'es the guilt and burthen of other mens fins. 'Tis very well ohferv'd by fome, that a more grievous p,mifhment is referved for them which caufe others to fin, than for them which fin by their occafion ; thus the Serpent was puni:llied more than Eve, and Eve more than Adam.. And io jetalel who tempted and provoked Ahal to fin, was prufhed with a far.greater and foyer pun ifirnent or Judgment than Ahab himfelf was. To fin (faith one) haul not fo much perdition in it, as to make others to fin and therefore as you walld never draw others to fin, keep off from all appearance of fin ; 0 that all Superiours, Infetiours, and equals, would lay this counfel to heart. Bat, Fourthly, The keeping off from all appearances of evil, is the beft and noblea way under heaven; to keep a good Name, and to keep a good Confcience. Now a good Name, and a good Cot-Science are Jewels more worth thin All the Scepters and Myters in the World, and there is no Wifdom in the W,,rld to that which leads a man by the hand to fecure his Name and his Confcience, Prov. 2 z. r. eX good Name is rather tole chofen than great Riches, and loving favour rather than Silver and Gcld. So Etclef.7. i. A good name is letter than precious Ointment, the one being but a perfume of the Nofirils, the other a rerfume of the heart. 'Tis obferv- able the Princely Preacher does not fay, A great Name is bet- ter than Precious Oyntments, but a good Name is better than precious Oyntments. Oyntments are here narned,be7 caufe in thofe Eaftern parts they were laid up in the Kings Treafury, even among his molt precious things, Ifa. 39. 2., I And Hmekiabu.asglad ofthem, anifhewed him the, hole -of his' precious things, the Silver, and the Gold, and the Spices, and 'the, preciom Oyntmenti, Precious Aromatical Oyntrnents were things greatly in ufe and efteem amongfl the ifi'adites, anda fpecial part of their Treafures,_ as is evident lay the Scriptures in the Margent. And yet a good Name (which hath its Foundation in vertue, and in a holy, innocent,blatne lefs, harmlefs, and ekemplary life) is better mdfE precious Oyntment% And 'tis obferVable that' the :initial letter 2. Kings 9.30-ult.. compared with. Kings n, 34, CO 39. Exod. 30 2.1-23. Exod.28. 4 t. I Sam. 16. 13. Pia]. 89.10. Heb. /. 9. Ifa. 61. 3. AMOS 6 6. 4.111fi.x.1 2. Pfal. 23. 5. Luke 7 46. Pfal. Deur. 33. a4. Prey. .I.
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