C H AP.;. Epileto the Thebloztians. VER. r z. 29.7 fcripts is long liince expired.Time was when lerufalem and Mount Garizivewere the places of worfhip ; but now the dayes arc come, wherein, as our Sc uiour, neither in t, Ie- rufalens, nor in that Mountaine men Aould war /hip God, but the true WorlhippersAmid worfhip him in Spirit and Truth; and c in emery place wee may lift vp pure hands, freefrom wrath and doubting; while the heart is cleaner the affel}i- onferuent;faithlledfaft ; places and times are indiffe- rent to private deuotions. Heauen is a Circumference ; the Earth the Center ; God is every where nigh ,unto them that call vpon him in fncerity. To-thefe we may adde our curious Trauellers, that to fee faf'hions,wander from Gods prefesrce, Vagabónds, as Cain, about the Nations, d Dinah her iudgemenr is vfu- allyYheir porri©n ; their returne is with fvoyle of bodily or f;pirituall Chaflity. They will fetch vs flrange Langua- ges, though it be from Bate!, with their owne confulii on; bringing home, as Seneca once plainted, Non folúms . verba,fed vitia: more of their lewd manners, then of their learned Language. Let Gods call be our Load -fiar; His hand asthe cloud to Ifrael; to moue or paufe accor- ding as it giues direction. VERS. 12. b /o6n4.z4z; c , Tim.z.a. De Hierofelymx er de Britanniâ equaliter palet aula ccele(fis, Rieron. ad Pau - lum.de inflitmt. Monachi. d Gen 34.z4 And the Lord m4eyou to increafe and abound in lone, &c. He fecond thing reyuefled, is their in- creafe and abounding in loue ; where the obieCC and inducement is annexed. What may the reafon be, why hoe in- rifts fo efpecially in loue Exhortations ro fpeciall duties, ye may obferue vfual- ly to haue one of thefe reafons. Firft, Speciali defeas in the people;which was the reafon the Apofile fo much R 4 vrgeth
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