TheglomoftheWIdl. 215 11101.1.0.. the fepulchersof the Srints with a facrilegious fcarch of treafures piefutu'd to have been there hidden,And God made fire rife out of the earth to devoure the over-bufie fearchers. Antiochm ranfack'd the Temple ofthe Lord.; 1-lelioderga emptied the treafures of their confecrated monies ; Pompeydefiled the Sabbathand the Sanauarie; Craps robb'd the houfe ofGod often thoufand talents. But inquire into the event of thefe infolencies , and we than finde that true then, of which latter ages have gi- ven many examples and are Rill likely to give more, that fiollen bread hath gravell in it to choake thole that devoure it, that ruine is ever the childe of facrilcge, that mifchiefe fetteth a period to the lives and defignes of prophane men. Now then if the -Lord were thus jealous for the types ofhis Gofpell, how, thinke wee, can he_endure to fee the Gofpell it felfe chfhonoured by an uufuteable profeflion, or the blondof the Covenant trampled under foot, as if it werea commonor uncleane thing ? In thecontempt of the Gofpell there is more dif- honour done unto every pert-on of the bleffed Trinity, than can be by any other finne. An undervaluingofthe Fathers aril-dome, that great myrterie and counfill ofre- demption which was hidden from former ages: and what an indignity isit untohim, for man to Phut out the light ofthefutre, that fo heema y, enjoy that pitti- full benefit ofdarkeneire, to gaze upon the lane gliiie ringofrotten wood,or ofearthly flimeethe deceit wher- of would bee by the true light difcovered ? And un- dervaluing ofhis went&full love, as if he had put him felfe unto a needleffe companion, and might have kept it ftill in his owne bofome. A iconic unto the Sonne of God , when wee fuifer him to hand at our doores with his locks wet with the dew of heaven, to put his finger into the hole of the as-if he dented toRealeanentrance upan,the Conk ; to emptie, tohum- ble,to der& to 'fairer the wrongsof men, and the VERSE 2. fofepb,intiq. 46.16.(a.i 1. 2 Mac.3. 5 Tacit.liiff foliphanuq. 0.124.9.13.
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