Z°< aa eatsk.G`W . Ksl! : 2 3 a C u e P.3 . An Expo pion vpon the fir fi V$ A, 8 k Ier.2o.$, 9 1 Pfal.34,8 m Gal.6, i cs n z sank a. 26 cheerefulnefe to doe our dutie.Arit elan kkilt-oarfpirite, to labour without fruit. If theft things mooue nor, oh, yet let the comfort of your owne foules fway you. Ourioy is fomething by your obedience: yours will bee more. 1 rage andfee howgracieru the Lord ie.O ncetry the fweer- nell'e and peace, that is felt- in holy Courks, Now heare how great caufe haue we to complair.e, of a barbarous affc' ion in our people ? Therefore running ro the excelle of Riot-, becaufe they know, it is Gall and Worme-wood to our foules. Alas, Brethren, what haue we deferued, fo ill at your hands, that you fliould thus delight in our difcomforr, that fpend our flrength to faue your foulcseThis account make,how euer the griefe is ours for the prefenc ; the horror at lall will be yoùrs ye (hall find it true that Abner fpeakes in his monition to hob : "Surely it will be bitterns f fe in the latter end. VERS. 8. For now we lime, ifye flandd fafl in the Lord. He fécond ere&, life; we liue,ifye Band' fait And not otherwife ? Life bath di hers degrees. Hee hues, that bath but breath or heat left in him ; more he,thav bath vfe of fente, and motion. Lita is vi- s , when iris led with chcerfulnelfe and ioy of heart. `Paul was aliue when he fail, ohe dyed: but his life was as death, difcomfortablc and bitter to him. Elm) Pjlayes the filly one, He lines in that death: but is as dead, becaufe he cnioveth not himfclfe. That the fenfe is this ; our life is lìuely, through the comfort wee feele in your perfcucrance. Some htlpe we haue here for fuller vnderffanding of the fixt precept. Wee vfually leant the fente of Gods. Commandements: whence.lt is,that we fo much faite in hum -. p loó s,s 1
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