66 C s T' s91arm were about to goe back againe into Egypt, the Text fay es, how Mofes and Aaron fell on their faces before all the Con- gregation of Ifrael, to befeech them to forbear,Num.14. S. They were fo mightily affee4ed with the peoples (inne, that they fell upon their faces before them. Q. d. For the Lords fake,and for your own fouls fake, take heed of this fin. What ! will you pull all heaven about your eares ? Will you provoke the living God againft you? O my Brethren, take heed what yee doe, fo we fhould doe, wee fhould la- bour to be affehed with our owne and our peoples dead - neffe. Wee ( hould call upon them to be quickned. O bee quickned, the Lord will not endure a dead people , get life it yee be wife, it is but a folly to have a name to live,except yee be alive indeed. Now the way for us to quicken our people, is, Firfi, if we be good our felves. When 3ehofaphat would encourage the Levitee to quicken up the people ; Sayes he, The Lord (hall be with the good, z Chron. J9.1 I. Hee will blell'eyour labours, hee will firengthen your Sermons to doe good, though not to all, for the greatefi part are not of God, yet unto his people. Nay, if we were good indeed , wee might have hope to doe much good ; as it is Paid of Barn:tban, he wan agood noon, and much people were added to the Lard. As i 1.24. Againe, Secondly, wee fhould bee earnefi with God to quicken all our hearts, that fo wee may the better quicken our Brethren, as Chrifi f ayes to Peter,when thou art conver- ted,, trengthen thy lorethren,fo we (hould delire God to quic- ken us,that wee may quicken our brethren, that wee may wafh our hands of our people. What an excellent comfort was that unto Paul, When he could take his people to record, that he was pure from the blood of all men ! Adis 2o.26. Thirdly, We fhould mark which of otir.people are dead, Exek; 8.6.And then thinke, what, are not wee guilty of his deadnefe Fourthly,Let us lay about us foundly,that we may not be guilty of their (noes in any kind. Fifthly,
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