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andChrifizan.r
fhould improve
theiÿgiftr,
66r
not be
fuffered
there
,
but
as
much publickly as
they could
doe, they
did.
-----
as
a
Citie
fet
on
a
hill ,
that
cannot
be
hid.
Neither
doe
men
light
a
candle
and put
it
under
a
bufhell,
but
on
a
can-
dleflicle, and
itgiveth
light
to
all that are
in the
houfe,
Yxu
have
received
force
light,
but your light
is as
the light
of the
Candle
;
if
a
man
hath
a
Candle,' the
way
to
prei;,
ve
it,
is
to
put
it
under
a
Bu(hell, then
it
will not
burn out to
fait
,as
to
Rand on a
Candl.Ricke.
It
is
true,
faith
Chrii%,
thoughthere
is
this
vile fpirit
in
force of
you, that
you
think
to
hold forth
what you have,
may
caùfe
envie
or
oppolìtion,
and put
you
to
a
great
deale of
labour and
trouble
,
therefore
you had
rather hide
your gifts
and your
talents
under
a
Bu-
fhell, partly
through
pride
, that
you
are
Toth
that others
fhould
know
that
which you know
;
Saith our
Saviour,
if
fo
be
that.y.ou have,any
gifts,
any
parts,
any
light,
any
knowledge in
you,
improve them
to the
higheft,
to
theuttermoll
,
although
you
fpend
your felves
the
fooner; This
is
the
exhortation
to-
:Mtnt(lers,
to
all people
;
there
is
no man
that
hath
any
light,
but doth
hinder
much
if
he
will
keep
it
ih;
it
is a
great deale
of
eafe for
a
man
that
hath
parts
and
gifts
to
lye
Rill
and
be
idle,.and
hath
meaner
coming
in
;
But
-faith
Chrifi,
where
was
it
that
you
lighted
your
Candle ,
bath
God
given you
more light
then
others,and
doe
you
thinke
that
you
mutt
have
more eaie then another
?
Have
you
any
parts
for
to
fit
you
for
any
fervice
for
God,
draw
them
all
forth,
and
be
of
publick
good in the place
that God
hath
fer you
in.
It
concernes
not
all
Minifers,
but all
people'alfo,
all
the
gifts
that thou
haft
are
but
as
the talents of
Cod
,
and
thou
muff
be accountable
for
All
of
them
;
and
know,
that
all
the
hones
of Omìflìon, are
'
as
accountable
before the Lord
as
the
fin
of Commiflìon.
Oh that men
would looke
to this, if there
be
any
thing that
is
evill
in
the
place where
I
live
;
If
I
by
any
meanes
that
God
bath given
tree
could
prevent
this
evil,
and
I
doe-not
.
doe.
it,