274 / 772
á.Coi,f
,
2o..
The
great
ton
-
tempt
efGods
minißcrs,
a
frgne
that
fire
profit
by
their
neiniflerie.
a:Cór,s.
14.
344
O
f
the
fgnes
and
in
fatlli6le
notes
of
our
&
&Rion
earth
our enemie,
who
is
able euery minute
to
defroy
v
with
the breath
ofhisnoflrels;
and
it
hath
pieafed
the
Lord
to
fend his
embaffadours,not only
to
offer
peace,
but
alto
to
befeech
vs
that
wee would be reconciled
veto
him,as
the A-
pof
}le
fpeaketh,
2.Cor..2o;
and vpon this
reconciliation,
hee aflureth
vs
ofthe
riches
ofhis
kingdome:
who therefore
receiuing
and
beleeuing this
atnbaffàge, will
not
loue the
Embaffadours
that bring
thefe
bleffed
tidings vnto
theta?
Who
can
bee
affitred
of
fuch
ineflimable benefits,
and
yet
Phew
no token
of
thankfulneffe towards
them, who
are
the
meanes whereby
they
are
deriued vnto
them?
Where by
the way
we may
note, how
few
the number
is
in
thefe
daies,who
receiue
the Lords
ambaffage
to their
fpiritu-
all
comfort
;
how
few
they
are
to
whom
it
is
effe
&ual
for
the
begetting
in
thetn.the graces
ofGods
fpirit
;
how
few
here-
by
come
to
the
true
affùrance
of
the
retniflion
of
their
limes
and euerlafling
happineffe:feeing the
number
is fo
exceeding
finall
who loue
and
refpea
the Lords
ambaffadors
in regard
of
their
ambaffage.
Nay rather
the
mof},euen
for
their
mini
-
flerie fake
doe contemne
thofe,whom
otherwife
in refpedl
of
their learning,wifedome
and
other
excellent
gifts
of
bodie
and mind, they
would refpea
and
highlie
efleéme
if
they
were not
ofthe
miniflerie.
So
that
their honourable
calling,
which aboue
all
things fhould
commend.
them,
doth abone
all
things make
them bale and
contemptible:and- no
niaruel,
feting
the moil
are fiefh
and
not
fpirit,the
children
of
Mam-
mon
and
'not
the children
ofGod:and
therefore,fauoring
on-
ly
things
ofthe
flefh
andnotperceiuing
the
things
ofthe
fpirit
ofGod,they
feeme fooliflines
vnto
them,and the prea-
chers
of
them föoles, and
men
of
fhallow conceits. But
let
'Cor.i.t"B,
fuch
know,
that
God
bathchofen
the
foolifh
thin
of
the
world
to
confound
the
zvrfesand:reake
things
to-conföundmighty
things;
and
vile things
o
fthe
world
and things
that
are
delperd
bath
God
chofen,
and things,
that
are
not,
to
bring
to
nought things
that
are;
that
no
flelh
fhould
reioyce
in
his prefence, as
it
is r-.Cór.
r.verf.27.2.8.
Let
them
know
that
this their contempt,or
at
Icafl
ftnall
regard
of
Gods
ambafladors,
is
a
moll'mani-
fe(}
f
gne
that
they neuer
receiued
good
by
their
ambaffage-:
for:
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