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Scandalous
profef)ërs
hurt
Religion,
le)fl
you is holy fo be
ye
holy
in
all
manner
of
converfation.
It
feemes that
the
wicked
they
labour
to revile
with all manner
of evil';
ro
caft on you, and
doe
you
labour
in
all
your
conver-
fation
to
rnanifeft all,holines, and that
is
the
way
to
anfver
all
manner
of
reviling.
Thirdly, Further,
vleffed
are
ye
when
they
revile
ye
and
.
perfecute you,
and
fpe4e all
manner of evill falfely,lyingly.
It
is
a ltrarage
fpeech,
that
forne
have, if
fo
be
that
I
were
guilty it
would nothing
fò
much
trouble me,
but
for
them to
charge me.
when
I
never
thought
on
ìt,
it mua
needs trouble me,
if
you
were guilty
when
they
fpeak
evill
of
you
truly,
then'
you
had
.
caufe
to
mare
and cry
out
in
the
anguifh of
your
heart,
Bre-
thren,
the beft.of
all
the
Saints
they
have fome
evil'
in
them,
therefore
we fhould labour
to
walke
that men
if
they
will
re-
vile
us, we should be
flare
that
they
fhould not
hit
right,
we
are
confcious
of
fome
evil'
to
our felves, but
we
fhould keepe
it
from the eye
of
the world.
But
now how
tiamefull
is
it
for
thole that
profefhe
godliness
to
give
.
jua
occafion
to be
revi-
led,
if
mens mouths
!hall be opened,
and
it
prove to be
true,
you
that are
profeflors
of Religion,
you
by your
fin
put
your
felves from
under the bleflednefrf,
when
men (hall
fay, you
are
thus
and
thus,
and your
o
one
confcience
tells
you
that
you.
are
worfe
then
they
doe
accule
you
of, thou
art
in
a
fad
con-
dition
when thou haft in thy bofom
a
reproving coulcience..
You talke of mens revilings, but
what
doth thy confcience
?.
men
fpeak,fome
evil' of thee,
but thy confcience fpeakes
more
evil'
of
thee..
--
Secondly, confider
this, that if
it
prove
true
and not falle
that'men reprove
you
for
,
it
is
the
hand
of
God
juftly
againft
thee, God
doth fpit
in
thy face., and
call 'fhame
on
thee,
by
the reviling of other men.
-.
Fourthly
,
Further,
you are
thole
that
doe hurt unto
Reli-
gion,
you
that
give
juft
occafion of
mens reviling
of them.;
Profeifors that
walke fcandaloufly,
that
makes
great
thew
of
Religion,
you
are the men,
and
doe the greateft
mifchiefe
of
any
men
on
the earth. God
will
require
all
the
fuiferings
of
all
his
other
Saints
at your hands,
you
doe more hurt
to
Religion
.thee
all
the, perfecutórs
of
the world
;
that
Chriftian that
make;