into the condition of the 40 ed, t 7 3 with God; and had we not peace with our owne confciences,, what should we do? but bleiled be the name of Go.l, that we have kept our peace with God, and we have peace in our own confciences; In there dayes of warre it's this only that com- forts their hearts, they prize it now : O, therefo:e put your (elves into their conditions that.yòu may learne tor rite peace. with God, and peace in your confcience. And then the feventh and !aft thing of all is this, if we . put our felves into their condition, certainly you would rife up-a gainft Popery and Tyranny : Suppof you were in Ireland, and, there were under that heavy tyranny of thofe barbarous Papists that are there :. why would not thi ; make you to rife againtt thofe that are Popi<h, and to-think thus ;. Is this the Poi ih Religion, O bloody Religion, what wickednetfe would that Religion countenance, a turf d Religion is Popery;you would: be ready to charge your children to hate Popery as long as they liv'd, ô the cruel ufage of people that have been there : --- And fo the P.opith parry that have prevailed here should make all tarife againit.Popery; and fo,againft Tyranny, what a miserable condition is a people in where a few men fhall Ty- ranize over them ; O let us joyn what pofibly we can, to ca {t . off the yoke of Tyranny,that we maybe Govern"d by Law, and know forehand when it is that we doe offend : Certainly the . miferies that have been of late inthefe three kingdonTes, can- not but Pirre up the fpirits of thofe in the ,kingdome that are not fottifh and willing to be {laves to rife againft Tyranny and never (utter it to prevaile over them againe, by putting- our felves into their conditions we may c^me to have our hearts affected in force nieafure as their hearts are, an-d tht.s we shall be fenfible in a right way of the mournefulleftate of our bre- thren. And to that end, that we may be fenfible of the niournefi:lt eftate of our brethren,it's good for us often to charge our felves with the great evillof afelfiih fpirit, what becaufe I am free my felfe, and feele nothing my felfe, fhall none of the a{flioli -- ens of all the Churches of God, and the fufferings of all the Countryes, come neer to -m y heart,, ó bafe felfifh fpirit that I have,;
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