yfe 3. CHRIST'S hcarm Let us bee afraid to,doe any evil, either towards God 'or tor- wards man ; let us be harmlell'c its the midfl of a crooked, and a perverfe generation. Let us deále faithfully with our people, let us undauntedly Preach, Rebuke, Exhort, with all long fuffering and Do trine, make our faces hard again(} the wickeds faces, no matter for their railings, their threatning i eeches, their malicious acciafatrons,, and not feare, the. Lord i-i efts, bath the continuing of us. Secondly, Here we may fee the reafon why the Gofpel continues in any place, a man would wonder it fhould continue any where ,. becaulè the world cannot abide it. Which of the Prophets have not your Fathers perfecuted ? (ayes Stephen, ACf.7.5z. They that doe evill, hath the light, it cuts them to the heart ; Every one hates nice, (ayes the Prophet, hce was reproached for the Words, fake. Report, fay they, and wee will report it. One time they put him in- to a dungeon; Another :time they would have killed him. Shcmarah writ Letters to the high Prteti again(l him, Jer.zg. a s. And yet bee continued his Miniflery; untill the day of the Captivity. Nay, hee had liberty; when others had their liberty taken away. Yee know Chril himfelfPreached.tlayiy in the Temple, and they took him nor, hough they goafltt their teeth at his Doelrine,and,fometimes were in the rnindeto throw him down headlong and break his neck, fometimes to (lone him ; yet till his houre was come, he had his liberty. And the truth is , á man would wonder how any of Gods.. Miniflers have their Liberties continued ; when there bec fo many Drunkards, fo many Enemies of all goodneffe,, fo many that follow their own ungodly tufts, and the Gofpel is an..eye..fore unto them, and yet in ma- ny places it (lands flit!. This is Gods doing. You fee here Chrtfl bath the . continuing of ;his Miniflers ; they Usall have their °liberty, -as long as God bath, any»ule for them. Thirdly , Is, it fo that. Chrifl bath the continuing of his Miniflers ? then this is of de alio unto you ; Now you
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