;22 i The finfulneJje of Sinne. éhe place which he commeth againft, and they take not the summons ; though of themfelves they bee no way engaged upon tie quarrel], yet being prornifcuoully mingled with the conquei'd people, they alto fhall (har,t in the common calamitie, and become captives with the r.efl,: fo good men by communion with the wicked, are involved in the generali mifèries oG tliofè with whom they communicate.. Fourthly, theybetray the fafety and tranquillity of the Church and Bate wherein they live; for they under Chriit are the foundations of the corn- mon wealth, their prayers eftabli(h the Princes throne, their cryes hold God fact and will not let him alone, to delltoy, a.people. If the Salt be infatuated, every thing mutt he unfavoury, if the foundations faile, what can the people doe r? .Now lailly, in the words of the Text the Apoftle thewes the aptne ffe of the promifes to clenfe and purifie, and that therefore they to whom they are made doe mif imploy.and negleát them, if they.purifie notthemíelves from all that 6lthyneffe of flefh and fpirit which by com- munion with the wicked they were apt eafily to con- traCf. I (hall not trouble yon with any. divifion of the words, but obfrve out of them the point I have propof ed, Tou -, ching the pol+'ation and fill hìne f fe of fin, and inferre other. things in the Text by way of corolarie and application . unto that, The wife man faith That God made all things beauta- full in their time,,ancl,then much.more man, whom bee Çreated;áfter his awn Image in rightegasfnefe avd holineffe with an univerfall harmony and rectitude in foule and body. Hee. never fail of any of the Greátures, Let .us make it after our owneimage as bee did of Man, and yet The Creatures have no more. beautie in -them, than they have footfteps of the power W ifedome, and good- , f nef e. of him, that made them. How much more beau- tifull
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