636 unfavory Minters unufefull and unprofitable. corrupted the Covenant, and been partiall in the Law, and you have fought to maintaine your own fuperflitious vanities by my word; you have abufed my word ; what then ? therefore. faith God, I made.you bate and contemptible. Saith one in his Comment on this Scripture, This is not fo much to be ex- pounded, as waved : what is a more defpicable thing then the Prieus ?. Oh how, the Lord hath fulrIlled this Scripture I who more in triumph about feaven.yeares ague, then the Prelati- call Priefls ? what fluffe did they preach ?. what unfavorinefle . was in them, and proceeded from them. ? And now hath the Lord fcattered them, and cafe them downe ; as it is in the 3 Chap. of the Revelations, latter end,. To him that overconeth' will Igrant re ft with me in _my throne,even as I alto overcame, and am ter downe with my Father in his throne : He that bath an ease; let him heare, what.the Spirit faith unto the Churches. Let us all fay , the Lord is righteous, and acknowledge the hand of God in this, and acknowledge the Lords goodnef e that bath flirted up our Governours. to call out unfavory fair, it is a figne of much unfavarineffe of mens fpirits,that they yet could favour filch Minifiery, they thought it better then the Minifler y now. This difpofition of mens fpirits puts me in mind here of that Scripture in the z Corinthians, i s Chap. 20 verfe. For ye fifer, f i f a man brim you into bondage, i f a man devolveyou, i f a man take of yost , if a man exalt hemfel fe,. if a man finite you on the face; That people when they Were under them that their owne confciences told them that their Minillery was unfavory, and they got no good by and that they mixt a great deale of fuperftitioustrafh; and thefe men though they did tyrannize over them, yea though they did make fpoyle of, their goods ; and that could not have a child .buryed but at a mighty rate, and yet notwithftanding all that they fuffered under them, yet their hearts could clore with them Rill rather then thole that come to preach the .truths of the Gofpel to them for the . falvation of their foules. 'I won- ,dying at this difpofition amens fpirits ,it brought me to think of that Scripture in the 2 Corinth. i t Chap. 20 verle, the meaning is this, faith the Apoftle St Partl, when I'come to preach
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