274 CxAp.4. AnExpofitioat slog the ftrft VBß.5, As the Gentiles, ce.. Gentiles in common phrafe of Scripture,fignifie all people, not of the feed of.46r4- h.w,, Of G_nriles there are two forts: Fitt +,Gentiles by nature. Secondly , Gentiles in (late. Gentiles by na- ture we are all,that come not from the loynes of ebron ham, Gentiles in llate,are fuch as continue in the flare of Gentilifme, not yet admitted into the Couenant of A- braham, nor called into the Church : of this latter fort Farel would be vnderflood. Iris the reafon of the A- poflleto ditrwade lafciuioufnelTe;therein hued Gentiles, that knew not God ; the more deteflable ( hould the fin be amongfl Chriflians. Obfèr. P tgodly examples are permitted to btcreafe deteiation of end, not to incourage to imitation :?Impious courfes of im. pious men,fhould make impiety more abominable. Imi. ration we are lure makes vs culpable before God,not on -' ly of like finnes perlònally committed, but in a degree of e Aiat.a3. 3 p; all finsoflikenarureby others committed. The tbloodof allSaints from Abel to Zachary, comes upon that generation, of Ieives; with what iuf}icemay form fay ? I thinke, be- caufe their cruelty argued approbation of like finite in their bloody Progenitours. To walke in the wayes of wicked men, what is it but to approve them ? the fall proclaimes, we thinke, like aEtions of others goad and warrantable. Jr were to 1* withed, our people had learnt to make this vfe of vngodly examples; to` dealt lewd- prat}ices, besaute in vre amongíl wicked men. But alas, how art they rnifcarìed to think the better of euill ?. becaufe pra- ehfed by the moll and greatefl,though they cannot bur acknowledge,the men are mill. Think theta beftvfes,oflewd examples. F rfl,griene. at the di( honour of God, and the ungracious courses of men made after Gods Image. Secondly, blette God that hath not given thee over to.like (trines. Thirdly,ptray to be preíèrued from contagion of euilJà Fourthly, deteft euill
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