`ya6`iY _: 283 C H n r.4. fln Expofition upon the frff _V 6 tends skill in the Commodity, then eaáreat Emptor.With filch idle dif{infìions doe they dawbe with confcience. But what Iezophoa "obferucd co bee the illîte of Per(iarí educa ion, fuch is vfually the euen.t of there dil}inctions in.bugaining. Children,faith Xenophon, forgar their di- itinf }ion, and made bold fomerimes to lye to their belt friends. So they that thus diftinf}ly beginne to praflife iniuí}ice, at length grow to promifcuous iniquity; fpa_ ring neither friend, nor brother, no nor their owrefa- ther,to aduantage their commodity, Should not the Lord be auenged of fuch a people ? Yes. God is the aueverofallfuch. The principali reafon fol- loaves: wherein obferue, Grit the quality, fecondly, the force ofir. It is taken from the dangerous & dreadfull confequent offuch finnes; laying vs open to the vengeance of that Godithat is in his wrath a confuming-hre. It fhould Teem then,it may well enough ftand with Grace, to abftaine frcnr finne, forfeareofvrngesnce, To this purpofe we are lure ,Paul propounds it to t his people of God ; that by terrour of Gods wrath they might flye iniuftice. The Lord him. noc onely allures leremy by promifeof his pre fence, h Make 9.43 but driues him to duty, by áterror of deflrtiftiçn. Our Sa- uiour propounds to his Difciples, meditation of h he/fifb. torments, to dererre from difobcdience. y So that they flander vs, that fay we teach : it favours of an affeetion graceletre, and meetly llauifh, ro abflaine from euill for feare of wrath. This we teach, To doe good one y for reward,wirhout all confcience of duty, or loue of God, is meerly mercenary : to efcbew euill, onely for feare of vengeance, arguerh an affeelion meerly flauifh. But that there is a lawfull intuiteu of both,in doing good, and efcheri ing euill;and that both may !land with grace, we teach with full content : oncly we require chat other ,fu 1 .E ift. refpeE1s.may allo lead vs : confcience of duty, loue of 44, God.care of his glory. n,,: .anti__ . ftYtie. They
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