ttpontht Epiftle of JAM I s. Vrils .tt. of the morning Soone, thought the: mmingled with blood ~ fo m!n}f voyce upperftcutJon and Martyrs bloodwhen t~eir infolencies are but a l.itile coorreCled and tefirainea. secondly, wit , tnay irup1y the ' . ' .,- ~- '.. . .. , - ~- ss; -· \._ . jb'dgenient of the vifible Church; the whole Ctitifiian Church doth atknowledg the flain Prophets happy , and Ct"kbrate their memory; p.a.x,a.el'E-W) the word in the Text, properly fignifieth to rl~a/e! or de– clare hafPJ :what is in the Hebrew,~he d.tughter_s wtll call me hlef– fld, Gen.3d.U . .theSept. rmder by p.ctx.~ei a"'tlfi· Sb Luk.J 1. 48. all gen(:rat ions foal/ call tm bleffd,in the Greek f'd.1f.d.V.tl11 p.i 'lrlu.A d1 J16Vsal· From this confideration I obfetvc:, ThM it u often the condition ofGods people to live mvied andpt rflcuted ,but t~dye Sttinted. 0/{ ervAt, We account the Oain'Prophets happy, and celebrate th~ memory of · thofe Which endure; The Scr;bt s and Ph•zrijuJ garnifoed the T ombes ofthe dead.-Prophets, but kjlled the kvins· Mar. 23. 29. 30. They pretended honour to the Saints departed, buc in the mean time were injurious to theSaints alive : fo J6hn 5. the Jewes pretwded love to Mojes,but £hewed hatred eo ChriR: it cometh to paffe part– ly by the providence ofGod, who after death cleart·thup the inno– cency and holy converfationofhis fervants pofierity,ack,nowledgeth them, whom the former age defiroyed; partly becaafe living Saints are an eye-fore , by the fc:verity of their lives and rcproof{ls they trouble and torment the world ; dead Saints doe n'ot fland in the way of their lcfis;for objects our offight do not ex·lfpernte; this may . comfort Gods children agllinfi the abafures ot the prefenc age, The d9 wiU declare it, 1 Cor.j ; I 3· when t'be heat ofoppofition is over, that which is now called Herejj and ~ntichrijlianifme, will then be accountedworfhip, and your {uiferings will fpeak you not malt-· faElouu, but Mart]rs; Men cannot difcern h the prefent truth, be- h :. Per, 1 , 1 :.. caufe blinded with incerefis ; but it lll!Ybe truth it felfe may be the intereft of the next age, and the bleak winde that bloweth·now in our faces, may be then in eur backs ; there are firange revolutions. Again, this may ferve for Caution to us; let us not rctl: in fond affeCl:ion to Saints and WorthiesdeparteJ; the memory of 'lua~J is not (o accurfed tous, ~s Corah, Dathan, and Abiram were to the car- . nal Jewes in Chrifis time; Mofes was dear to them, as Chrift and the Apoftles to us; that~s the befi affetlion which is expretfed by imitation; and fiableneffe in the prefent truth is a great triall ofour fincerity; dead Saints are out ofour envie : hOw are weaffetled to the living, diuwalk in their wayes? It is good to exaruine what Bb b b, 2 propartion
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