t e to the Theffaloni.cns, Wt.. 5,6. 4'2r z { CHAP.. % our plencie of Knowledge add-es much to the weight of our finnes. Eueryfinneis now double, to that it was in times of groflé Ignorance,or lefie meanes of Knowledge. 4. 7° ro him' that knower to doe well, and doth it not, to him it 6 am, r is finne. Siunes of Knowledge, are carcris paribm, grea a .rz. Ltr 47° Z ter than fin nes of Ignorance : The s punifrment, wee know, is greater, therefore the fumes. Ezschial bath a fpeech fomething ftrange at f r(l hearing : Samaria g and B gr"cfa16.4s. 1 Sodome, faith the Prophet, base not done halfe the ahonsi- § nations of lerufalem.. Not halfe the abominations of 'cm falem ? The I dolatrie of Samaria, the Luft and Cruehie of Sodome, for the kind and matter of the Genes, might well Tway with thofe of lcrufilem : but vet confider cv- curuflances; in degree of heinoulneffe, farre greater were they of lerufalem. Gods mercies to lerufalem more in euery refpeE1; in this elpecially, their Knowledge, at leafl, their meanes of Knowledge, farre greater than any vouchfafed ro Sodome or Samaria. So may we fay gene. rally of the times of the New Teilanient; our finneshaue this onecircumfiance,to adde much to their weight : our Knowledge, at leall the meanes of it, arc farre greater than any was euer granted to Fore - fathers, among(l Iewes or Gentiles. Would God we had not too iuf} caule to complaine, as the Lord dothoflerufalem : that as thee had fuflifïed Sodome, fo we lhall,I fay,the Iewes ; yea, the very Hea- then ; that they, vngracious, and abominable, as they were, yet may well feeme righteous, in refpeet of our multitude, now liuing in times of the Gofpell. How o- dious to them was DrunkennelTe ? To many of them, W horedome, Vfurie ? Euen of vaine Swearing, many made much Confcience; Periurie they hated, as Hell it feite. The greater, no question, (hail be the damnation of thofe Mouflets amon.gft vs, h without feare feeding h Illde,v.ti. tbemfelaes in luch Genes. Thirdly, the last vfe, let bee the dude that concernes 3 C c 4 vs s -
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