CHAP.5, Blip totheThefälonian.r. VEIL. 2i, exhortation to the Romanes, to cleave to that which is good ; yet before aduiféth, to e proue what the good and a Rem. at. z.9. acceptable Will of the Lord is. A point worthy our notice in this head-long and head - thong generation, abounding with fo many per- emptorie and pertinacious fpirits 5 pitching their relolu- tions without care ofinformation and in matters moft difputable, impatient of difpute, or contradiaion. I would haue them, flrf}, confider of what fpirit it favours to bee thus áe044 -4, r fèlfe- willed. It is Gods mercy to e z Pet. t, io. inch men , in weightieft matters to giue them found Iudgement : whither elfe might their tiiffenetle carrie theta ?Secondly, withall, to remember what Paul obier- ued ; that to the g fitter by,may bee granted the clearer re- z i Cor. 4. 50, uelatio . Thirdly, and what he aduifeth ;inmeekenrfje of 1 wifedome to h thinke another better than our fifties. This h Phil,z,3, obiter otiely. The fubt }ance ofduety; confiant y to hold and maintuine, what vpontriallJhall be found good c: fo are the precepts frequent. ' Cleaue veto that which ù good 3 Rom. i2.9. be in a fort glued thereto. k Hold fajl the proffjon of k Heb. your hope, without any ¡o much at wavering. The cenftancie required, fnppofe to bee, Fit ft, in Iudgement : that it waiter not, or bee vnfetled ; ' It is t PPh 4. i4 childi(h, faith Saint P A v L, to be carried about with every blafl ofvrine doarine. Secondly, in affeíuion ; that our loue clafpe dole to truth and goodnetfe, without feparation. Therefore laid S A L O M O N, in Buy the truth, and fellit not, m Prou. as.al Thirdly, in praEtice; that we hold our courfe of holi- netre, fetledly and vnaltered : It is difcomfortàble, a to n Gal. 5.7. haue ramie well, and to furceafe obedience of the truth. Firft, Preuaricators in this point ofdutie,are,fiefi Aca demikes, as Bernard well refembles them, in matter oS Faith and Religion : men that loue tt;bs queftionifts its all things, rcfoluedofnothing. I-low many of that hu- mour are amongt}vs ? after to cleare light and reuelati- Ll 3 on 547 Aa s ',7°''.. ."+...-401ta.r-,4 .Nf .,tow,.
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