C t; AC r. 3 . Epiffle to the ThefTalottians. V a R.8. humbling our felnes for our tranfgre ffions;and refl con- tented with meere civility: crying out of too much nice - netTe, euen In Moralities. The Pharifes for this haue their /OM. 4taxe from our Sauiour. Pant r tutoured by a Phari,e, 9 hence grew fo felfe- conceited, being moll mifërable, yet r Afls za,3 if reputes bee himfelfe at happy as any man aline ; till fuch f Rost,7.9 time Rd the Commandement came, and he had now learned Ithat the Law:vas fpirituall. Like generally is the conceit of our people from the fame ground. None arc reputed Thceues,but Robbers; nor Adulterers, but Inch as de- file their bodies with the grotTe as of vncleannetTe; nor Murrherers,but fuch as (head blood. Whence it is, that Ciuility goes currant for complete Kighreoufnefle : and the Law of God is thought to bee fatisfied, when the grottefl breaches are auoided. Know vve,there are murtherers in diuiniry,that are none in policy : theeues in diuiniry, that are none in civility. Vtitrers are no Theeues in Policy ; yet grand T'heeues 'in Diuinty.CAn¢ry Fooles are counted men in Policy ;are t mat. '.za ' Murtherers in Diutnity.To reE3ifie this errour, take tafle in this Precept how large the fcnfe of others is. A Murtherer we call him,that vnlawfully depriues of life. But we (hall erre,if we thinke life not taken away, till it be vtterly txtint Thofe Thecues, in the Parable, that rroanded the Trvteiier, and left him nhalfedead, were u Iyketo:3o Murtherers.Impayre but the ckearfulnefTe of life, by dead ing a mans tpirtts, thou art a murrherer, Efau was in his degree a rnurthercr of his Mother Rn- becca, whiles by lis vn',racious match with the Daughters of Flesh, bee made x her life bitter veto her. The Iliac- Gen.27;46 fires by their Idolatry made Y Via weary of his 'lfe, y King. 29.4 were therefore murtherers of him. Falfe prophets in E- l t3.zz. zechiel, made z hearty of rigbrtova fadde -by their /yes, ec were for that guilty of muncher before God.. In a word: Impayring of the comfort and ioy of heart, which makes life lively, muff be cenfured a degree of mur -, ther i
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