VC H A r . 5. Epifile to the TThrffaloni4ns. VEK. I 2,13. caufe of our being in Nature, than the other of our being in Grace; yet for that point of well - wifhing, it is accorded; it mull bee more than to any private man ioyncd to vs in thenecrefc bond of affinitieorbloud. So A Q V I L A and P R I S C I L L A preferre " P Av s faf etre n Rom.16.4. before their owne. Good Obadiah, not without adventure of his life, x hides the `Prophets in Canes from the rage of x I Icings 18.4. I Ez AB E L. So precious in former times were the per- fans of Minitiers. Howare thefe degenerated whereinto wee are fallen wherein Minitlers ate made the chicle Butt of mens ma- lice ; no fort ofmen,1 dare fay, more odious to men vn- reformed, whom yet the Lord bath commended to a ipecialtie of our loue. TheReafon generally is no other, than that wasof A- chab for t.i7ilicaiah. Of all the ref}, hee Y was rneff odious, y r Kings 2Z. 8. becaufehedealtmotI plainly. See alto Revelation I r. 6. Gal.4. 16. It is ftrange to fee, how cuery aal of their life is lifted, how tender Tome men pretend their Confciences to bee, in a Minifters omiffions but of circumflances; when Gods Commandements are, without fcruple, feene, and fufferedtobecontemned. The truth is, not their Con- fcience, but their malice is more to a Miniflets honefiv, than to the peoples greateftprophanenefe. of it I fay no more; onely I with Inch men to confider, how tender care the Lord bath taken for the perfons of Minitiers. See, faith P AV L, that they may bee z withosst feare asnon fi z r Cor. t6. ao. your Touch not wile Anointed,doe my Prophets no harme. And what is done to them, is interpreted a as dose to 'Luk,io.r6. Chrit, whether in good or euill; and fo will be recom- penced at the Day of generallretribution. The motive or ground of this fingular Louefollowerh, Lone for their Worke fake. Not emery louse of a Minifiers perfon, it that wherein a MO hash comfort, but that effiecially which is for 1.i worke fake. 47E Obfer.
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