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Vrfavory
Miniflers
unufefull
and
unprofitable.
corrupted the
Covenant,
and
been partiall
in
the Law,
and
you have fought
to
maintaine your
own
fuperftitious
vanities
by
my
word;
you
have abufed
my
word
;
what
then
?
therefore.
faith
God,
I
made.you bate
and
contemptible.
Saith one in his
Comment
on
this
Scripture, This
is
not
fo
much
to
be ex-
pounded,
as
waved
:
what
is
a
more
d_
efpicable thing then
the
Priefts
?
Oh how,the
Lord
hath
ful
tiled
this Scripture
1
who
more
in
triumph about feaven.yeares ague, then
the
Prelati-
call
Priefis
?
what
fluffe
did
they preach
?.
what unfavorinefle
.
was in
them,
and
proceeded
from
them
?
And now
hath
the
Lord fcattered them,
and cafe
them downe
;
as
it
is
in
the
3
Chap.
of
the
Revelations,
latter. end,.
To
him
that
overcoo
eth'
will
Igrant
to
fit
with
me
in
my
throne,even as
I
alfo
overcame,
and
am
fet
downe
with
my
Father
in
hiá
throne
:
He that bath
an
eare,
let
him heare, what the
Spirit
faith
unto
the Churches.
Let
us
all
fay
, the
Lord
is
righteous, and
acknowledge
the
hand of
God
in
this,
and
acknowledge the Lords
goodneffe
that
hath
'Erred
up our Governours to
call
out
unsavory
fait,
it
is
a liigne
of much unfavo ineife
of
mens fpirits,that
they
yet
could
favour filch Miniulery,
they thought
it
better
then the
Minitier
y
now.
This
difpof
tion
of
mens
fpirits puts me
in
mind here
of
that Scripture
in
the
2
Corinthians, i i Chap.
20 verfe.
For
ye
fu
f
fer,
i
f
a
man bring
you into bondage,
i
f
a
man
devoure
you,
i
f
a man
take
of
you ,
i
f
a man
exalt
htmfelfe,
if
a
man fmrte
you
on
the
face;
That
people
when
they were
under them
that their
owne confciences
told
them that
theic
Minil+ery was unfavory, and
they
got no
good
byit,
and
that
they mixt
a
great deale
of
fuper&itioustrafh
;
and
thefe men
though they
did
tyrannize over
them
, yea
though
they
did
make
fpoyle
of their
goods
;
and
that
could not
have
a
child
,buryed but
at
a
mighty
rate,
and
yet
iaotivithflanding
all
that
they fuffered
udder them,
yet
their
hearts could
dole
with
them
í}i11
rather
then
thofe
that
come
to
preach
the truths of
the
Gofpel
to
them
for
the
falvation
of
their
fouls.
T
won-
dring
at
this
diffofition of
mens
fpirits,it
brought
me to
think
of
that
Scripture
in
the
a Corinth.
if
Chap.
só
verfe, the
meaning
is
this,
faith
the
Apoflle
St
Paul,
when
Iconic
to
preach