Chap. ` _ Exp6fition ' ' a if had let m b record of thepeople, A c c c reckoned no more for an ifeadire, efeecialle let Me not a the leader ofthat people) B 19't nt, cut ,f the ba)ke avh,ei9 th.>o km.11 'oh in ea iiga wraten let not my rime fliind epon that record The Lord had e,e71 to fieter, thent,tioat I may conlitine awn; : axe/ I will make of tloe a great r.a-td):4'",":,,:ue' upon my own name, I am fo far from being ambitiodly defirous E, fungi fe cobe thebead ofa greater nation then there,that ratkr then thy 141r ex eatat'to' name fhould ¡Off: r, I carenot to be taken notice of as the head df rcriP'" which tku haft writtemThis alfo is a faire interpretation of/12/4/i brxi, fc. Puri- meaning ( Ron 9 3 ) whenhe willied himfelfe accorfe,1from arci"'"7± Soc.' fuppofe chat Liltfes and Tea/ were moved with che fame Spirit sold-. ofzeale for the Glory of God in both their wifhes; And that .45 0 rcru!i when !Wit withed (upon chat account) to be blotted- out of the Àlei catak'g° Booke whichGod had written, he withed the fame thing witiall;:i4t)f,teb-It' " Patildid, when he wifhed tobe accurfed or an anathema from from the fociety or communionof-the faithful!, and fo no more i fi, tobe remembred among theSaints or to have his name blotted ,vi's ont of the Church records, though hehad been fo great a planter '1'11'4' eDe and propagater of theChurches. There are two Scriptures that deletio nyrtni3,. fpeake offuch writings or holy records ( le [ball h come to pffe,tbat be t104t Weft inSion, snd be that remainet in ?e- " Pnurti rufalene 'ballbe calledholy,even every one tb4t is written among tbe or°;";:a` who were not written among the wing , or co life in lernfalem, rum polaa, Thus to bewritten to life,or among. the living, is co be written the Catalogueof thofe who are reckoned to have a life ofGrace tents ofa life ofGlory hereafter. Againe we have a like evidence ofthis ( Ezek, 13. 9.) My hand'hall be upon the Peoploets that fee vanity,and that diviree lies,theyfball not be ix theaffembly ofmy people, neither!Whiny be written in the writing of the ;Joffe of ifrael. As when. the Lord brought the peopic, of IfrAei out of
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