°14 CHRIST'S 4larm what it toff, it colt aboue 4o.thoufand mens lives. The Ro- mans flue the Illprians , and the Tarentines, for tnif -u- 1 ng of their Embafladors, and as Cicero layes; our Ance(lors layes he, for this very thing defhoyed all Corinth. For alas how could Princes deale, with one another, ifEmbaffadours fhould not goe tale, and be hearkened unto ? Therefore Ent- baffadors muff be regarded. When Scipio Af ricanue Cooke a (hip full of Carthaginians, though he meant to rifle all they had, yet when they laid they were Embaffadors, hé would not meddle with them. True, they were not, they did but counterfeit, that fo they might efcape. But yet you may fée how inviolable Embafladors were, the leali indignity offe- red to them, was punifht as'ifit had beene offered to the perfon of that Prince, that they did fuffaine. Well then, how doe we thinke will the I. ord take it at peoples hands, that his Embaffadors are abufed, and difobeyed, that people will not diligently come to them, and acknowledge their er- rands, and yeeld obedience to him : no Nation under heaven bath had more Embaffadors from Heaven then we have had, and though tome have hearkened to them, yet for the moll part they meete with Ammonitifh dealings, they are disfigu- red, and mocked, and laded with indignities, denyed to de- liver their me{fage, every paltry rafcals complaint admitted againffthem, none walke info much danger as they, none more fhot at, then they ; scarce any will Beare them and fub- mit to their Embaffage, and thole few that doe, are counted the onely fa &ions people, and peffilent fellows in the land. O, what wrath is there againff us for thefe things ! For this very caufe, the Lord plagued all Judah ; even becaufe they would not hffen to Gods Enibaffadors that he Pent to them earely and late, as the Prophet fpeak °s. Jer.2.9.17.TLT9. This fayth the Lord of Rolls .Behold y wil fend upon them the (word, the famine awhile Peftilence, and will make them ,like vilé Figs. that cannot be eaten they are fo eviIl,and 1 will perfectas- them with the(word with the famine and with the Pef#ilence, and f will deliver them to be reanovcd:to all the Kingdomes of the
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