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Men
before they
are awar
May make others
fuffer
for
righteoufnefs
good, they
would
never
oppofe
it
:
O
you
are much minaken,
for
force men may goe againit
their
very
Consciences
:
But al-
wayes
men
of
the
greaten
parts do
nor
underltand molt
of
the
mind
of
Chritt;The
Scribes
and
Phari
fees
were the molt
know
-
ing men
in
the
dine
of
Chrill,
and
yet the grearelt
oppofires
toJefus
Chríff.
Yea,
thirdly,
Men very
civilly
Righteous, yet
may
oppoíe
Righteoufneffe
;
M
now, the
Scribes and
Phari
fees,
they
were
civilly
righteous
;
So
it's
faid concerning
Paul,
That
he
perfe.
"cured
the
Church,
and was
mad againfi
them
;
what
was
this
,Paul
when he
was
fuch a
perfecutor
r
he
was
no drunkard,
he
was
no whore
-
mailer, he
was
no Blafphemer, according
to the
apprehenfion
of the
tintes then
:
But
he
faith
of himfelfe in
the third
of the Phil:
6,
7. That
concerning
the Law
he
was
blameleffe,
Paul
before
his
Converfion walked
in
fuch
a
civil'
way,as no man could accule
him
of
any way
of evill,he
walked
blamelef'e,
and
yet
a
mad
perfecutor
ofRighteoufneffe. And
it's
faid
of
?
rajan
which caufed
the third of the ten primitive
perfecutions,
7rajan
of
all
the
Emperours he
was one
that
was
the molt civili,
juil
and righteous
of
any
;
And
I
remem-
ber
thefe two
or
three
things are laid
of
him
that
when
he
was
an
Emperour he
did
behave himfelfe towards
his
Subjects,
as
if
he had been
.a
Subject,
he would
have had his
Prince
behave
himfelfe towards him'; that's the
firft
thing
is
faid
of
him
;--.
Secondly,
That
being
Fniperour,
when he gave
the
Sword in-
to
the
hand
of
an
Offcer,he
had this fpeech
;
when
(
faith
he)
that
I
doe
fuftice,
ufe
this
Sword
for
me,
i
f
you fee
that
I
doe
In-
juftice
ufe
it
againfi
me,
(to
his own
Officer.
)
And then
a
third thing
is
this,
That
when
an
Emperour
was
made, they did
ufe
to with
the
happineffe
of
Au.guffais
to
him;
the
uprightneffe
of
7rajan
;
and
yet
this man
a
moll deadly e-
nemy
to the
Chriflians,
and
a
moil abominable
perfecutor,
fuch
a
man
as,
this, yet
fo
civili, morrally
jufl
and
hone(.
I
but
you will
fay,
he
was
of
a
hard nature,
though he were
fo
civil',
jult, &c.
Therefore
I
add
in
the Fourth place, that
a
man may
beef
a
very
£weet
nature,
and
yet
be
a
great perfecutor;
Though
of
a
very