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Scandatous
profeffors
hurt
.geligirn.
makes
profetiìon
of
Religion,
and
gives
just
occalon
of
revi-
ling, he Both
more
hurt to Religion then
all
the Revilers of
the world
;
and
there
is
this reafon
for
it,
Perfecutors
doe but
make
men afraid
to
profeffe
Religion,they doe not
make
them
to
be
out of love with
Religion, but
thofe that
walke
fcanda-
loufly
they
prevaile
upon
mens confciences,fo
as
ro
make men
hate
religion
:Now
is
not this
a.greater
mitchiefe. for
to make
Men
hate
it,
then
to
make men afraid
to.p of;tfe ir, therefore
looke
to
your
felves, that ifmen
fpeak any
evill
of
you,
that
they may fpeak
it
falfely,
but if they
fpeak
it
on
just occasion,
then
You
cannot make
your rnoane
to.God
you
are
cut
oft
from_
that
priviledge, but
being reviled falfely, then
you can
enjoy
that priviledge
;
as you may
read
in
the
i
5
Chap.
of
Jeremiah.
It
is
the priviledge of
the
Saints,
that
when
any
men
fpeak
e-
vils-
of
them,
and
their
confciences tells
them that
it
is
falfely,
they can
then
goe
to
God.--
Then
when
they
f
j
eakevill
of
yom
falfely
for
my
fake
: Be
not attentive unto others
in
any
matters
that concerne
man and
man,
if
you
fatter do not fuller
as
evils
doers, but
niter
for
the
fake
of Christ,
{lifter
in
the matter of
God.
As
it
is
faid in
the 6
Chap. of
Dan<ier
5
verse, Then
Paid
thefe
men,
we
fhallnot
find
any
occalicn
aping
this
Daniel, ex-
cept
we
find
it
againfl
him
concerning
the Law of
his
God.
Their:
confciences
were
convinced,
that
in all
matters between
.man.
and man,
there
was
nothing
to
doe with
him
;
but
let
us
watch:.
him
between the matters of the Lord
his
God
:
the Lord
de-
liver
us
from
fuch kind of fpirits
;
fo
long
as
Christians walke
fóthat
let
the world prie
,
and in all
their
converfe
between
man and man
they
can find
no
fault,
onely in
the matters
of
the
Lord
their
God,
onely for Christs
caul
,
and
thé matters
of:.
the
Gofpel.
Yo,
tdiall
have many
fay
of their
neighbour,
the
neighbour
that
lives by me he
is
an
hón.ft
neighbour as
any
can
live by
me, but
he
is
thus
and
thus,
and
hark
taken up
filch
an
opinion, and
is
ftriel
in
the
matters
of
God;
and
fo
of fer-
vants
and
wife,
blef
ed are
ye when
all
that.prie into
your
wayes
and
lives,
have
nothing
elfe
in
it,all
t
'
yoú fuffer
it
is
for
the
fake
of the Lord
your
God.
Certai;'if'To
be you
t
fhall.fuffer onely for his
fake,
then
it'muft
be set
on his fco
and
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