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Difcoveryes.of ?eìß
-that
o-ppafc
eli
ion.
flrength, and
lufly,
arid
have
all
about you,
and
are
in
a Tavern
and
heate with wine, then
you fcorn,
deride,
and
fpeak;agair>íl
fuch and
fuch
men, but
fuppofe the.
hand
of God
be upon
you,
fupofe
you upon your
fick
beds,and
you
apprehend your felvs
going
the
way
of
all
fief,
to,
receive the fentence of
your
e-
ternall
doom
from
God,
are
you
of
the
fame
mind now
?
Are
thefe
men
as
hatefull to
you
now as
they were
at
Inch
a
time,
when
you
were
in a Tavernand
ípake fo againfl
them
?..
Why
furely
if
you
did
fpeak againfl thbfe
mere
becaufe
they were
naught,
then
the nearer
yyou_
are to, anfwer before.
God,
the
more
would your
hearts be
again(l
thofe
men,
or
if
any .way
were oppofed
becaufe
it
was
naught,
then
the neerer
you
come to be judged before
God,
the more
your
hearts
would
be
again(}
thar
way
: But now. we
finde
itotherwife, that
many
men
that
would
not be
accounted perfecutors
of
righ-
teouineffe,
yet
that
that
they
fpeak
mofl
again(+,
they
doe
-it
more
when their lulls
are
heat
by wine, by
meate
and
drinke,
or -otherwife,
in the
ruffe
of
their pride,
in
their
firength
and
health
;
They do
it
°
more then,
then
.they
world
doe
it
upon
their
fick
-beds,
when-
they
are going
before the
Lord
to
anfwer.
And that's another
difcovery
that
what
ever
the.presence
was,
yet it's
righteoufneffe,
that
they perfecuted.
Thirdly, When
men
oppofe
others
under.
pretence
of
faults
that they were more guilty
of
a
great deale before
theymade
the
profeifion
of
Religion
and righteoufneffe
then
now
they are,
and
yet
they could
bare with
them then,but now
they
cannot.
As
for inflance,
fuppofe one
fhould
come
to
make
profeffi=
on
of
Religion more then before
Now your
hearts
are a-
eainfl:
them, but
how
?
you
will make force
pretence that
they
did.
Lome
fault,
and
therefore
you oppofe
them
:
But
I
appeale
to
your confciences,
were they
not
more
faulty
before
they
made
ftch
profeffion
of
Religion,
and
yet
you
could
bare'
with
their
faults
then. Your confciences tell.
you
that
your
fervants,your children, your
Wife,
wa:
snore difobedient then;
&yet
you .could.
better
'are
with
their
faults before
their
pro-
feflîon;