70 lohn 8.4$59 Luc 6.21. Afts 9.1. Gen.49.27. Afts8.3..&zz 4..Stz6;I0,ki GiI.I.I;. Aas 17.5,6 Ads 19 28,29 34 Afts 22.22.,2,3 t1 Gcne. 49.E,7. Kavua9.ica- 7k7etv. Matth. z6.7,,} Ehe fin] ulnefie Sinne. Samaritan and hula a Devill, and elfewhere it is faid, Th.ut they were filled with madnefe at the fight of the mi- racles which Chrifl wrought. Such was the rage of thofe which ftoned Stephen, theygnafhed their teeth, they flop. ped their eares ,they !hooted with their voyce,they ran with one accord and (toned bins : and Saul who was one of them, is laid to have breathed ont threatnings like a tyred Wolfe (unto which force make the Prophecy of Iacob touching Benjamin, of which Tribe Saul was, to allude) and elfewhere to have wafted the Churches, and to have dragg'd the Saints into prif n, and to have been exceeding mad agaivtft,them. And inch meafure himfelfe afterwards found, combination, uproares, a faults, draggings,wrath, clamors , confuf ons, rufbing in, calling of of cloathes, throwing of duff into the aire ; anything to expreflè rage and madnefle. But you will fay, all thefe were at that time wicked men, what is that to nature in common ? Have the Saints Judi fierce and intemperate affe &ions too ? Surely while wee carry our flesh about us, we carry the feeds of this rage and fury. Simeon and Levi were Patriarches of the Church, and Heads of the Congregation of Ifrael; yet fee how Iacob aggravateth, and curfeth their fierceneflè; In t h it anger they flew a man, in their Wrath they digged downe a wall : Curf d be their anger for it was fierce ;and their wrath for it was cruel'. Peter was a holy man, yet when the windes blew, when the tluces were open, and the water had gotten a little paffage, fee how it gathers rage; bow fierce and mad it growes, even against the evidences of his own heart, againit the Confcience of his owne promu es, a de Mall growes into an oath, and that multiplies into curlings and damning: of himiél fe; for.ib the words imports, as imprecating of Gods wrath,and of feparation from the pretence and Glory of G o D upon Himtelfe,if he knew the man. Jonah was a i oly Prophet, and one whole rebellion and fierceneffe againft G o D might .
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