340 Iudg4.18.19. & ß. 9, io, Phil. T. $7. The deceitfidnef of Mani heart. (hewed himfelfe what he was. So all() the Ifraelirts, while God continued a good Judge amon J them , were in fomegood order : yet when the Iudge ors dead, they retrsrxed,and did worfe than their Fathers. And fo all the time ofI fhuaes governni nr,and the good Elders that furvived lofhtra, they kept them - (elves within force compafie. But together with them dyed all the ICI aelites good neffe:Anothergene- ration aroje, which knew not the Lord: So ftrangely were they changed. And fo we fee it is in many places from whence the powerful! iVlinifFery bath departed ; how many that before teemed very reli- gious have then grown lode and licentious ? Chil- dren of good hope,under good Parents and gaver- nours, have afterward proved moft ungracious and ungodly wretches. Sober and modeft Maides, un.. der the ftraighter government ofParenrs,comming under the milder government of Husbands , have proved but bad wives : And good wives, dining the watchfull eye of the carefull and confcionable husband , have proved afterward but wilde and wanton widowes. So many removing out of religi- ouî families into civil! , and out of civili into prc. phane, have left behinde them all their religion and civility, and grown openly prophane and diffolu e. Here then will be a good tryall ofour foun'dnc %, if in the ablence and Joffe of our governors, we frill continue the fame that in their prefence, perfor- ming that which Pawl wfheth the Philippians , namely,that whether he came among thern,or were abfent from them, yet they would ¡kill holdout in their good courtes. $. Triall
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