CHA P.S. Epi/fleto the TheJfaloniaas. VaR.x2,t3. 467 This Cónfutiion is come vpon this generation, and I dare fay, is fore - runner of a beanie Vengeance. No man almofl fo vile, but thinkes himfelfe a better to the ableft Minifler : yea, the name it Idle wee haue cat!, as a terme of Reproach and Contempt, vpon our races. Reafons, forne may not bee denied to Dicke in Mi- niliers: Firft, in many, their (lender, or no gifts to difchargc fo high a Calling: Crarritur panm ad Sacres ordure.: fr Bernard de con- reuerenda ipfs queque Spirit:bus Angel:cis 1!?inifteriaap- uerf, adCler.: prebendxntur, fine reuerentiá, fine confderatione. As ih cap.'z9. Iereboams dayes, who would fil hb hand, might confe- crate him; elfe, though bee were of the loweft of the pee- pie. Woe to the hands that admit them, and thereby call contempt vpon the reuerend Calling. Secondly, Another, the lewd life of many in place of 2 Miniflers, whereby :hey all Authoritie in their peoples Confciencc, though gifts be otherwife neuer fo reuerend. The Lord in his infl Iudgement f cafts eMal.:.3,9 Dung in (uch men: faces, and makes their perlons as vnfaxerie Salt, to bee trodden under foot of men. Through their occafion, the whole Calling is expofed to con- tempt. There are others in the people: 64, That they fee not the necefltie of their Miniflerie; nor therefore know to prize the winch thereof; fpecially, their no experience of the comfort and power of it. Secondly, It were [!range, the plenticof the Bleffing thould make it contemptible: but true it is, in all experience, fami- liaritie euen with fuck fauours of God, breeds contempt. The word of God g mae premise, while it was geafon: z i Sam, ;.r. Now wee haue euery day Manna, though it bee Bread from Heagen, and Food meet for Angels, wee grow to loath it; and with the Word, the Mellengers that bring it. Ff3 Now 4
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