C H A P.2. Einfile to the7heffaloníans. E R. to.. not o regarding the o ledge of God, to a reprobate minde, men not receiutng the loue of truth, to beliefe cf lies, and pertinacious adhering to doecrines of S. 2 But if therfore thefe perifh becaufe they receiued not the loue of the truth, Lord, I thinke, what (hall become of this faithleffe and crooked generation? to whom the light of Gods truth bath fo long and clearely lined, and yet P they loue darkeneffe rather then light. Euidences of the crime take thefe. i Their naufeating the plentie of this" Manna : fo corne fed they profeffe themfelues with this bread of IY'e. How ioyed they in the tidings of the mifnoifed inhibition of preaching ? When, God knowes, purpofe was neuer to inhibit plentie, but to regulate or- der and manner of preaching; that neither 9 babes might want their mile , and ftrono men growinv to the itch of earei, might be re(trained to wholefame `DolIrirae, euery one taught, as r they are able toheare. i Indifferencie of moR in their affecTtion to the re- moouall or retaining, carelefnefe, whither lehouah, or 'Baal .were entertained for the God of Ifrael. Itnowne vn- to god are all hss wayes from the beginning; fweetly loth prouidence fway in the delinquencies of Isis children, gui- ding all to his ovine heft en .is. But in the rumour of our entrin league amitic with a daughter of that Religion, how brake out Hypocrifie of many to difcouery of it fel e: refolurion vttered, profcflion made by many to change with tile tin-Ls, Rudy in many , of hone( mindes, tore. eoncile,as their Rile was, the Teeming differences twixt the two Religions. Rare the man that kept his rcfolution with Io/huab: that vowed to fuffer Joffe, I fay not of life, but of the infamous goods of fortune, for the caufe of the Gof1peI. It was Salamons aduife to f buy the truth, and not to fell it : Iudes, to t flriue for the faith once giuen to Saints: herein how deftl iuewereeuenpillars of the Church, that though the taxe were opprobrious no lefle then flande- roils, to charge then as IeremieIe°wes, to ° bend their tongues, as their bowes, for lies; yet willingly they may teare I 5 ° Rom,r.a8, P Io6n 3.19. glie6.s t ;. r Marke 4 33 (Prom/L:3. 'fad ver,3. ° Iere 9.3. -.3 :``elf` .
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