446 Tie order of this Beatitude. wherethou art, there is fo much impurity in thy fpirit. Wick- ed men that are full of fin, cannot but be full of trouble. In the 57 I, fai,, 2o, a i. But the wicked are like, the troubled Sea, when It cannot reft, whofe waters call up rn.'re and dirt ; There is no peace faith ply God to the wicked. I he wicked are trouble - fome, they are troublefome wherefoever they live. In the 5 Gal: zo, you find what the fruits of the fiefh are ; Now the work ofthe fiefh are manileft ; Firh *teaks of uncleannef f e ; then in the 2,0v. Idolatry, witchcra f t,hatred, variance, emula- tions, wrath, ftrife, (editions, herejies, envying, murders, drun- kenneffe, revilings, and fuch like, Thefe are the fruits of the flefh; mark how many words there are that tend almoff to the fame thing; hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, flri fe, fediti- ons, herefies, envyings,. murders. All comes from the fruit of the flea). Bleifed then are the pure in heart, for then, as they (hall fee God,fo they will be peace-makers. Although ordina- rily men lay all the trouble upon fuch as delire to. walke moll confcionably, that delire to keel e their hearts and wayes molt clean. Indeed men who can yeeld to any thing, this way or that way, they are accounted quiet men ; But men that mull walke according to the rule that God bath, appointed, fo fa :-re as they can fee light for, and whatfoever becomes of their pri- vate Interel}s, or private peace, dare not goe contrary CO the Rule dare not got one Rep to .tile darke ; there are accoutred the Troublers of Ifrael. And who were they, in.fórmer tithes that were accounted the troub%rs of the State, but thole that were called Puritans ; But Chru{ accounts them the, heft for making peace : The pure in heart firff,and then peace-mak;, rs. Yea it was feremies lot, Chap.' 5. to. CO be accounted a t70[I- blelom man ; woe h me my mother, that thou haft borne me a malt of flri fe, and a man of contention to the whole earth : "Jere- my a man of ftrife and contention -to the whole earth; and yet he pleads his innocency; he walked with a pure Confcience before them all, and yet they all did account of Jeremy' as a man of ftrife and contention. to the whole world. This is the perverfe Judgement of wickedmen ; It was }ufl fo in. the pri- mitive times , they were accounted' the great troubk;rs of States.
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