to drewfe SAINTS. 313 they were wife, and knew what theydid, they dura not doe as they do, but every bate fellow Bops lais care, and hardens his heart, againft the God of Heaven and earth, and will not obey our word : nay, men can hear their fins ripped up, and the Anathema's of Chria 1pread before their faces, and not bluib. They can heare that thofe very finnes they live in, doe fèparate from God, do adjudge them to hell, and hew them t® be under the blacknes of darkneaé, and the fentence of damnation, they can fee it fhowne them out of the word, which they cannot deny for their hearts, though they would never fo fain and yet they will not repent nor returne that they may have mercy. Nor one drunkard will leave, nor one Mocker leave, nor one Covetous perlon, nor one graceleflè wretch leave, they will have their owne wayes, doe the Minraers of God what they can. We can get none to be awakened, none quickened, none ftirred, none hart - led to any purpolè. Setting afide here one and there one that truely obeys the voyce of Gods fervants, the whole. countrey lying in ignorance of God, in the privation of his Spirit, unreconciledneffe with heaven, voydneffe of faith, emptineffe of grace and life, the nakedneffe of an outward profit-lion, having no true quickeningwithin, nay the moil in grofie wickednefle ,drunkenneffe,company-keeping, unruli- neffe, diforder, uneleaneneffe, lahivioufneffe, covetoulheflè, mocking at the pure in heart, malicious alienation 'of fpirit againa the holy wayes ofGod. Nay unce we have fpoken to them in the name of the Lord, yet none will hearken to i any cffe6t that their foules may live. 1 Fourthly, therefore, J pray you let me adde one ufe more ; doe but confider, how. the Lord taketh this at our hands, that his Minifteis are thus vilipended. They are in more danger of their liberty for reproving , then the wicked for committing of their fins. Are his Minihers his Embaffadors ? then he will never endure that his Embahádors !hall bee abuled. When the King of the Ammonites had abufed David: Embaffadors, that hefent him in lore.s Sam.so. Ye know a what rig 4.
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