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Saints

noufi

be

e

ntteyt

to

beret/11a

by

tke evil

they obhor,

proaches, 'we

mall be

willing

to

fubmit

to alithat God

fhalil

call

us

to,

all

manner

of

evil

,

ir may

be there

is

in fome,forn&

caufe

of

fufpition,but

they

mull

not

reprove

men

on fufpicion,

but if

we

went

no

further but

only

to

fpeak

evil'

becauCe

there

is fome

ground

of

fufpicion;

but the

people

of God

mull ex-

pea

(if

on no

ground

at

all)

evil'

men will

revile

them,

---

Secondly,

Such

kind of

mill

as

is moll contrary to

them,

as thofe

that are

the moll

fober

and moll temperate, they

mull be content

to

be

reviled

by

the

name

of drunkards, and

thole that

are

the

moll chaff, they mull

be

content

to

be

revi-

led

by

the

name

of

uncha(i,

thofe

that defire

above all

things.in

the world peace

and would

not be

caufes

of

trptrble, only

fo

f

trre

as

their duty

calls them

to, yet

they

mulicbe

accounted

to

be the troublers

of

the fiate

and church,

that

evil'

which

they do

<abhorre

they mull be content to fuller,

yea whatfoever

evill that

any

wicked men

are

guilty

of,

yet

godly

men

are

chargedwith

it,

When

Nero

would fire

Rowe

the

chriflians

were

the

caufe

of

it,

they

lay

to their

charge

all

kind

cf

evils,

why fhould they

('peak

of

all manner

of

evil'

for

if

they be

not

guilty

of

it,

then

it

would

be wafhed

away"

and

to the

(hame

of

thofe

that doe

call

it

on

them,

but

they will

divulge

the eviti

abroad, and aboundance will come

to

hear

of the reproach,

that

cannot'come

to

heare of

the

juftification

of the reproach,

and

of

the

anfvver

to the

reproach, and

therefore

boldly and

flrongly

will

they

fpeake all manner

of

evili,

though

it

be

things

that

are

as

farre diflant from

them,

as

the

Eaft from

the

Weft,

yet

they

will

feek

to

caufe

it to

flick

by

calling

it

on

them,

take

off

who can ,

by

fpeakintg

all manner

of

evil(;

From this

let

us

learne not

to

judge of

the

Saints

by what we

heare of them

;

what an

,

infinite

wrong will

it

be for

us

to

thinke

men

to be

guilty

by

what

ever

is

call

upon

them,

we

shall

wrong

the enera-

don of the

righteous.

that

if

we (hould

have

the leaf' thought

of

guiltineffe by

the

reproaches

that

are abroad.

And

then let

the

godly

labour

to

confute

all

evil'

that

is

Paid

of

them,

:L

Baer

a

Chap.

a;

verfe.

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at

be which

both

:e

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led