98 1J AThatife of the Affe- aions. Com, in mean you to weep and break my heart, fayes the Apof le, 1 Cora. Muir' AcL.a1.13. it built his very heart to fee others Rand weep - /u r c- ing about him. There be many clamorous Preachers, layes mofi repre. Calvin, who declaim againft the fins of the people, and be Carer, thunder againft`the iniquities of their Parifh, and make as qur in vi though they had a great deal of zeal,that never move a jot; mi and the affections of the people are not ftirred up a whit; be- ve!porrnr fault the people fee plainly, through all their aelings and feiminan vehement enforcements, that fish Minifters are not affeet- do mini))) ed themfelves, but only exercife their fides and their throat, elí ar d as if they would ac`titon a ffage. But O (ayes he, labour Arse, e æ ine to mourn for their fins in thine heart, before thou labour rerea ipf+ to move them. Be thou more affeé ed thy fell, then thou ¡ecuri ur undertake(' to affeft them. S. Paul did fo move the affec`ti- videanrur ons of Dionyfus and Damaras, and others at Athens, that per Eulum the Text Cayes, they clave to S, Paul. Certain men clave to 8 ter a him, and beleeved, Aí4. r 7, 34, He preached fo movingly, exercere that their affections did even cleave to him as he preached. velle : at How came it about that he ftirred up affections in them ? cbri¡tiani look into the 16. verfe, and there you (hall fee he was great- paflorúefl ly affec4ed himfelf. His fpirit was flirted in him, layes S. litre fecum Like when he law the city wholly given to idolatry. He prrufquam couldnot have ftirred up affefiions anthem, if he had not silo) ad Arum pro been filled with affethons himfelf. O beloved, our hearts weer, (9' are grievoufly ftraightned, and our fouls are wofullyl opt, plurapu3 that we are not more affeeted our felves at your miferies le rewlere do then we be : would it not fetch tears from our eyes, and pain atiir groans from our bowels to fee how defperately. ye are quam Ado. hardned, but that we are too little aifeeted our (elves ?. Dabi) vo. you know the damned abufesin your Parifh, the curled cit vi tu fins that reign in your houles, and the (livid fecurity ye tie, f quod are in, yet nothing can move you. Your confciences cannot fuade),pri be ignorant ye are carnal, and are not yet Saints, nor born usipfersbi again many of you ; your confciences can tell you ye are porñofJ4 Saints, or elfe ye are hellhounds, and if ye die as ye are, Been. f ye have no evidence for heaven, but ye may be damned ere lone
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