GHaP.g; Lpifleto the 7hegale0tans. VER_IZ,l3, 413 ted, they followed (Thrift, and were fometimes zealous for hislafetie : the Realen was ; he fed their bellies by mi- racle, and cured their bodily difeales; his doctrine, in the meane time, founds E barJ7, and creations rnany to floht6.66. forfake him. His reproofes fo bitter and dflaftfull, that they g goe about to /tone hirx. s Iohn 849 In like fort,1 doubt nor, but there may bee found a- !nong(1 men carnali, some euen louing refpect to the per - fon of faithfuls Minifler 5 as perhaps, for that they are well -vied in their payments, and that which chiefly drawes the brutilh multitude, the feeding of their bel- lies. Perhaps the gifts G o D bath bellowed on fore, may draw nor onely rcuerence, but loueto their perlons. In all this yet they haue no comfort : except the worke bee it that drawes affcElion. He that can fay, I loue a Mini- fler, because hee reacheth me ro k now God ; becaufe hee informes me ofdutie; and reproves my ftepping afide; that is the man that bath comfort in his loue. What thinkeyouthen of them, to whom the worke is the thing that is moll odious ? To fay nothing of the baler people, whole complaint profelred is, that the mer- rie World is gone; tince preaching came vp : euen a- mongtlthemthat would feeme wife, this is heard fome- time as reafon of their letíe loue; They could loue the Minifler well, were it not for his double diligence in preaching. His honetlie, and peaceableneire, and lear- ning they feeme to loue ; the workeis that they profetfe to hate. Oh curled flare offuch mens foules 1 I conclude it thus; He that loues not a Minifter, cuen for admoniti on and reproof-es fake, hash no comfort in his loue. ¡ewes heare with patience Stephens narration ; his reproofe is Gall and Worme-wood; h Therefore they gnafh with h As 7.54. their teeth and flew hires. And h at peace among your felstes.T he duty concernes the people, not onely towards their Miniflers, though fomefoconceiue, but each towards another. Peace is of
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