178 VERSE 2. r Ne qracquatn prog.a exqui(i- tior quail CM- delitas velta, iftecebra eft ma- gisfeeLe, ?lures ebruiona Tories meunur a ve- bit. Santa et languisCbrtflia- norow- lade eft quad rent ex- tits veil a gra- tias agimm, ut eft oeffrilatto di- vimerei mpheTertml A- pedeteap-talt. The certaintyandftabilitie ,.. publifhed ; we (hould therefore (ludic tomaintaine, to credit, to promote the Gofpell, to encourage truth,dif- countenance errour, to [land in she gap againft all the firatagems and advantages of theenemies thereof; and to hold the candeflick among(' us,to buy the truth, and fell it not, betray it not, forfakc it not,temper knot, mifguize it not. This is tobe a pillar .8c toput the fhoul- der ulder the Gofpcll of Chrilt. And furcly though the PopiRs boaRof the word and name of the Church (as none more apt to juRifieand brag of their fobrietie than thole whom the wine bath overtaken) yet the plaine truth is, they have farre leffeof the nature thereof; than anyother Churches, becaufe farre leffeof the pure fer- vi.e and rniniRration thereof, for in Read of holding forth theWordof life, they pull it downe, denyingun- to the peopleofChilli the ufe of his Gofpell, dinirdia. ring the ufe ofhis Sacrament, breeding them up in an ig- not ant vvorfhip, to begge they know not what, in all points difgracing theWord of truth, and robbing it of its certaintie, fufficiencie, perfpicuirie, auchoricie, purity, energie in the minds ofmen. And this is certain,the mote any let thennleyes again(} the light and general' know- ledgeofthe Wordoftruth,the Lein ofthe nature ofthe Church they have in them, what-ever oftentations they may make ofthe name thereof. The lati chino " obCcrved in this fecond verfe among' the regaliries ofChriii, was Imperison, his role and go- vernment in his Church by his holy Word, maugre all the attempts and machinations of the enemies thereof agaiitl it : Rule thou in themiddefi ofthineenemies, that is, ThouAultrule ferfel fecurely,undollnr6edly, with- out danger, feare, or hazard, from the enemies round about; their couniels ffiall be infatuated, their purpotes (hall vanifly, their decrees fball not Rand, their c perfe- curious (hall but low the blondofChriR, and the afhes of Chriflians the thicker, they (hall fee- it, and gnarly with
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