to dsv3vfe. SAINT s. 187 could not doe as J bade you , you timid not have borne me in hand although you would ; now yee have play'd the Hy- pocrites and drawne neare to me with your lips , and .taken my Name into your rnouthes, whereas yee would not bee reformed byme ; What bad you to doe with any Covenant, that mufi weds bee moiling withal Pfal.so -. t6. lf yee ; would nor obey it, yee fhould have let it alone; fó that yce lee, that to haye a naked Name to live, is an inexcufa- ble thing. Seventhly, it is all unprofitable thing ; A naked Name will doe us no good; when the Jewes truf ed in theName that they had, O they were the children of Abraham, they were Gods onely people, they had his Covenant, and his Oracles, and his Temple ; O the Temple of the Lord , 'the Temple of the Lord ; they hoped well, having thus much to lay for themfelves; but marke what God tells them, Behold yes trufi ss_lying words that cannot profit, Jerem.7.8. This would not profit them one jot, becaufè they did not verifie the Naine they had. So the Galatians they prefùmed mightily on this, that they were t Wham ; as for making good this holy Name, that they gave no heed to at. all; they would have the Ceremonies; when Paul told them of their faults,they would not lifl'en unto him, nay they counted him their Enemy ; they would have the Ceremonies of the Law ; well, the Apoiile told them plainly,, that if they would not bee ruled , their Name would doe them no good. Behold I Paul fay veto ost, that ifyee be Circumeifed, Chrift (hall profit you nothing, Gálath.ç .2. y. d. You beare your felves upon Chrif} , and yet will not doe as lee would have you doe yee will doe what yee lift ; but let me tell you if yee will not reforme, Jefus Chrif'c fhall profit you nothing 1 you fay you ,beleeve iñ Jefus Chriff l but it fhall profit you nothing : So when the People there in I farah refted in this., They came to Gods houfè, they gave him Sacrifice every morning and evening they did thus and thus, and f ©'they had a Name for his peculi- ar people; the Prophet allures them; this flaould teat profit b z them Riaf.7.
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