142 C:'H_R I .S :.T'S .ediarm'. Chrt>I Paid to him as well as to the Nit, When.* gee Preach; Paying, The Kingdos+ea. o f Heaven is at hand, very. Eightly, Experience hath found this to becrrue; Tome godly foules have colifeffed this very thing, that filch as now they fee to -be palpably carnali, have been the 'means of their convert on, &c.. Many helpt Noah to build his Arke that perifhed lit the 'waters. God may make the crowing of a Cock, to be a meanes of awakening Peters Confcience The temptations of the Devill, to be the meanes of Lathers quick- ning and therefore, J doe notfmplyaffirña that carnaliMi -. Milers cannot convert. But this J fày, it is a very rare thing, as Chrif+ ayes, If the blind lead the blind, both ;hall fall in, to the ditch, Matth. t S. 44. So if a Hypocrite lead a hypo - crite, the Drunkard.lead the drunkard,&c. It is a woe to a Parifh,w hen their Minders arenot godly : Woo 're the Ciry fayes G O D, Zepls. 3. it. why to ? Her Prophets are light per - fens,ver.4. Woe to inch Townes whole Minders will goe to the Alehoufe, whole Minif}ers will keepe company, and bee haile -fellow with every vain fellow , whole Minifiers will embrace this prefent world, whole Minifters are proud, and envious, and malicious , that give a bad Example to the people, that depend upon their charge. Woe to them, (ayes God. The curie of God is upon loch Parifhes. God hath hardly any intention to lave fuch peoples Joules. Or, if hee have any of his Elea there, God will lave them Tome other way ; as God told the naughty Shepheards. ,3, even j will fearch ont my Peep and fee{,them ont,Ezek. 34. s r. that is, J will learch them out "fòme other way, J will not do it by you, and therefore when hee hath a mind to five a poore people, he fends good Miniflers among them, or them to good ones. Turne O bae4, Eliding children,fayes Ged,and-J will takeyon, ene of a City, And two of a family, and 1 wtllgiveyon Factors according to my heart, Jer. 3.t 4. &c. God would have none but wile-hearted men to worke in his manuell Tabernacle, E.rod. 3 p. so. how then doe we think he will let fooles , as all camall Minders arc ? &c. Saint Paul laid, it was a part of
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