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are reviled,

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revile

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my

life lay

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imagine

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all th.

do, lonm

what then

,

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I6cs

a deaf

man

heard

not,

and

I

was

at a

dyri

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man

that

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mouth

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reproofes:

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ín

thre

O

Lcrd

do

I

hope,

thou

wilt

hear

O

Lord my

God.

The

leffe

we

bear in our revilings,

the

more

Will

God

heare,

and

if

we hear too much, Gods

ears will be

the more

f

}opt

:

Gods

people

know wayes

how

to help themfelves rather

then

by

re-

turning reviling

agaMe.

Indeed

you

..have

many

people

who

c

fcoulding

in

the

flreets,and

if

one

fhould

Cali

dirt

at them,

they will call

dirt

at them

againe

;

that's

ail-the weapons

that

Goulds

have,

to

call

dirt

upon

one

another Now thole that

have

manhood

in

them, they

will not

run to

the kennels to help

themfelves, but to their other

weapons

:

--

Bur

you

wil

fay

this,

do not

we find

in

Scripture that

When

men

are

wicked

and

vild,

thar<the

Scripture doth

give

'them

their

own,

the

'Scripture dhth

fpeak

of

them

as

vild

and

calls

contemptible

naines upon them

;

and may

not we

do

fo

with thofe that do

deale

wickedly and

Gnfully

;

may

not we open

their

folly, and

deale with them according to their

folly,and

thew their

thane

unto

theworld,

and

leek

thereby

for

to

humble them

by age

graxating

their

evill

upon

them,

will

you

call this

a

reviling

a-

gaine.

--

Indeed

we

read of Chrill,

in

r

Pet:

2.

z

3.

His example

is

let

before us,

Who when

he

was

reviled

reviled.

not

again, bat

committed

to

him

that

judçeth

righteoufl

y

:

But now I befeech

you

Obferve

Pirfi,

what

the

Scripture

doth

in

Tome

cafes

;

Secondly, Obferve the Rules

that thould

-be

obferved

to

make

them

to be different

from

reviling.

Certainly the

Saints

mull not revile againe,that mull

be laid

as

a-

ground

and'principle, yet

they may rebuke others lharply,

In i Tit:

The

ApofIle

there

fpeaks

of the

;Creti

fns

that were

lyars,

andmark what

words the Apollle ufes, ver:

io.

faith

he,

There

are

many unruly

and vain

talkers and

deceivers

:

elpecially

they

o

f

the circumci

fzon, whole

mouths

muß

be

flop-

;

And

then

;Dam,

One

of

themfelves

faid, the Cretians are

alwayes

lyars,

e-

vali