CHAPS. Epiflóeto the Th adonians. VEL. 14. 483 rent; feeble- minded in this fenfe, are men deietled with fenfe and feare of afflifrons;as we haue inflance in e I o s, c Iob 6.9. d EL I n s : in many amongft our felues, deprelfed and d I Kings r9.4. cart downe, and almoft driuen backe from holy profeflï- on and pratlice, through feare of the CrotTe. The dude we oWe them is, Comfort. e Man that is in mi fery, /bould e lob 6.54. bee comforted of his Neighbour; the cenfure is heauy on them that neglc it; Such bane forfaben the feare of the Almightie. See notes ad Cap. 4. verf. vit. As it fhouldmake all Gods children carefull ro per - forme ir. Firít, them felues being yet f in the body. Se. t Hcb.133. condly, hauingreceiued g Comforts from God, to this g zCor.I.4. end ; fo ic,iuftly reprooues the barbarous and fauagc in- humanitié ofchem,that, as D,cuidfpeakes, adde of sThon to him whom God bath wounded. A generation rife in all places,dallying with the heauieft afiftion ofGods chil- dren,an accufing and terrifying confcience. The beafiliefl amongft brute creatures, euen Swine, feeme to bee affe- Eted with the out- cries of their kinde : men onely more bruitifh than they, triumph in the miferics each of other ; & are not moued with their out- cries, as bitter asihat in the Prophet;hn Lord,it bathoppreffedme.Lord,cöfort me. bIfai.;S.r4. See how bitterly i Dauid in a fpirit of Prophefie cuffed) , Pfal.ro9.,6. fuch men.And let them tremble at it, whofe praftice it is. The laft particular remaines;Support theweake.Firft, of the perfons.Secödly,then of the duty.The perfons are the weake. Weaknes is of two forts ; firft, in iudgement : fecondly,in praEtice. Weake in iudgement,are luch as ei- ther for lack eofinformation, orcapacitic, or illuminati on,are not yet convinced of fome truthes conuenient, or necelfary for them to vnderftand. Such were many in dates of the Apoftle, whom therefore he calls k weake.in k Rem.rr.r. faith;that could not yet be perfwaded of the abrogation of r.) o fes Law; (till thinking their confcience bound to ob- ferne difference ofdaiesand meats. Such I make no que- ftíon,are force amongft vs in matters of ceremony and in- diffcrency. G g 3 Weake
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