. ! . . . . . . `88 Fgt on the whole Armour ofGod. thrack't full with money to holdmore, H. z. 5. Thus the a- dulterer, as if his body were not quick enough to execute the commands of his luft, firs it up by fending forth his amorous glances, which come home laden with i4uItery, blows up this fire with unchafte fonnets and belly-chear, proper fuel for the devils kitchin ; and the malicious .man, who that he may lofe no time from his luff, is a tearing his neighbour in pieces as he lies on his bed, cannot ficep unleffe fome fuch bloody facrifice be offered to his ravening luff. 0 how may this fhame the Saints : how oft is your zeal fe hot, that youcannot fleep till your hearts have been in heaven, as you are on your beds, and there pacified with the fight of your dear Saviour, and fome embraces of love fromhim? a. It reproves thofe who flout and mock at the Saints, while ex. ercifing their graces. None jeer'd as the Saint in his calling. Men may work in their (hops, and every one followhis calling as diligently as they pleafe, and no wonder made of this by thofe that paffeby in the ftreets but let the Chriftian be ken at work for God, in the exercife of duty or grace, and he is hooted at, defpifed, yea, hated. Few fo bad indeed, but feet to like Religionin the notion; they can commend a Sermon of holinefs like a difcourfe ofGod or Chrift in the Pulpit , but when thefe are really fet before their eyes, as they fparkle in a Saints con- verfation, they are very contemptible and hateful to them; this living and walking holineffe bites; and though they liked the Preachers Art, in painting forth the fame in his difcourfe, - yet now theyrun from them, and fpit at them ; this exercileofgracc offends the prophane heart, and firs up the enmity that,lies with- in : As Nichal fhe could not but flout David to fee him dan- cing before the Ark. He that commended the Preacher for making a learned difcourfe of zeal, will raile on a Saint, expref- fing an aet of zeal in his place and calling; now grace comes too near him. A naughty heart mull ftand at fome (4.itlarice from holineffe, that the beams thereof may notheat too frongly on his conscience, and fo he likes it. Thus the Pharifees, the Pro- phets of old,thefe were holy men in their account, and they can lavilb out their money on their Tornhes,inhonour of them : but Chrift,(who was more worth then all of them) he is fcorn'd and bated what's the ruyitery -of this ? the reafon was, thefe Pro. phets
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