X18 CHRISTS Llarm huh not yet wrought upon that span ; it may be it hash fb.z- ken him many a time; yea, but if he be yet dead, it never wrought upon him roundly ; the oracles of God, are lively oracles , as Stephen Gals thew, At1s.7.38. they make their hearts lively that they cone to worke roundly on ; though they were never to dead to God and good things afore, yet now they wax lively , they make their hearts to receive a divine llrengtb, that now they waxe able in Tome mealüre to live towards Ged, to hunger and thitf+ after God, to de- light in the Peeking of him ; be their lulls never to nighty, now they can compote themélves to oppofe them, and to fwitnme againft the Cr ea me ; now they can pray, and they cannot abide to have blockifh hearts in that nor in any other duty, they have a life that rel fls that fame deadneflè that dweileth in them. So then this is another reafon, that a dead Chrifhan is as good as no Chrif#fan at all,the word bath never wrought fourdly on that Man. The ute of this is ; firll, if the dead Chrif$ians in Sardis be as good as nothing, what are the riff - raffe in the Towne, that are not ib much as Chrifiians in tune ? I fa, dead Chrif}i- an be rejec`ied ofGod,wlaat's a dead drunkard ? a dead whore- monger , a dead proplsaneling ; if one that walkes in good c©urles be refuted, becaulé he is dead in them, then what fha ll become of then that will not follow good courfes at all ? If fish chat are Saints to them, cannot be lived, where (hall they appeare ? I r is raid that Chrifl loved the goodly fire caria- ged young man, Mark. 10.57. Chrifl is never Paid to love a drunkard; apr©hane wretch; no he regards oie that carries himfélf in a fayre civillhone(l way, more then all the world befidee, except onely his own children; and therefore if he counts nicer civil men (lark naught, how much more does he thee, that art a very bea(l compared with them ? Thou art Co vile, that we that are men doe know thou art in a fearefull e$ate ; nap, the Lord pronounces a woe upon them that dare 1peake well of thee ; thefè Finnes are to be puni4aed by the Judges ; if thou had{ lived is braes, thou fhouklfl have been put
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