134 The beß men before Degeneration SE R. V. s Secondly, which may make every man looke a. bout him, and to confider with feare and trembling, 1. hey aye if it bee not his owne cafe: If a man fhall have thefe them much Truths revealed,but he (hall either let them lye í1i11, hurt and ruff, or if he bring them to a &ion, (hall checke and curbe them, and not ufe them as he fhould, they thail encreafè his condemnation. And that may be made evident from hence, the Their caws fines fuch men commit are augmented and aggra- are the work vated, from hence they are committed againft more aggravated, light, and the more their light is than others, the greater their finne is than others. Therefore that is to be marked, Rom. 2.9. Tribulation and anguifli on every foule that doth evil!, to whom r To the lery fir fl, and then to the Grecian ; Marke ir, They that doe evill are of two forts, Iewes or Grecians. Iewes were they that knew and were acquainted with the Law, and the Grecians were ignorant of it ; therefore Tri- bulation (hall be firfl, and in greareft meafure on the Iew; fo that their knowledge aggravates their finne: it had been better for them that they had not had the Truth, that they had never heard of the Gofpell of CHRIST, nor been acquainted with the wayes of G o n, becaufe when they have light, and fin againfl ir,the more light they have,the more ref fiance there is, and fo the more inexcufable they are ; and the more inexcufable they be, the greater is their finne. 2 Againe, thefe men of all other are molt apt to re- They croft lift G o n, to refill Cu R r ST and His righreouf Godsend. nefle, and that doth exceedingly encreafe their liane, becaufe they crate G o n in His chiefeft end, and that mutt needs make their finne great; and that they doe
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