todrovfe SAINTS. Reformation and amendment and gives good hopes that he ,,10111 come to fomething in the end ; when hee lights upon Inch Sardian Saints, that are fo in name, but there is no life at all in them, thcfe put him backe againe, and make him let up his ftaffe before bee tees halle way ; like the dead body of Amafa, that made the people (hand fli1L Againe, they doe a great deale of hurt unto the Saints of 3` God, 'fómetimes by deceiving of their hearts and cooling of their zeale and te. your , or if.they cannot doe that; the they hate them and prove very fhye ©fthem , and gird them behind their backes and doe them msach m;L:hiefe, as Paul complains, Hee was in perils among (alp Brethren, z Cor. I I. a6. That is, u. :pi: chat had a name. to bee Brethren in Chrif+, but were not fo i ndt d bee was in perils many times and often by them ; Ag -ir. e, they inerealc the difbraces and fi fferings of Gods true - aincs end Children ; for, while they feeme to bee Saints good euoug : themiilves , the other that ate Saints indeed, are reje&ed of all, and thought to be beGd; c their wits. Againe, they doe a great deale of hurt to themfelves., for 4. -it had been better for them they had never bed a Name, then having a naine not to bee as the name does require. To make way for application. Let nie tell wh at ufc .ye- triufl not make ofthis Dodfrine ; make not ole hereofto be .t downe the having ola Name, for all the Lords people fhoo.ld bee carefull of having a name Swill give them a name of 1+ Sonnes and Daughters nay a better name then fo, Jii. ç; . ç Yea, and the people of God fhould make confèience of' a Name before men ; A good name is better then p;e clothe Oynt- ment,Ecclef.y.t. And there vansof ìòd have ':ad a name Dcnoetrita had a good report of all men,ye oftee truth it ltd' too ; and therefore they are black mouths of Hell that obje& again(h good people that they are f lypocrites they do thus and thus to have a name. This is no newes,4òr _he World hath a l- waits dealt thus with the Saints in a.. _A Paul was counted the great lmpo(hor of the world ; O(ayes be wee are deceivers B b 3 and
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