22q, H A P. 3. Art Expolition vpon thefecond V E R.I. °IacçS.to. P& iS,zO.Bt. nEzech.z,6. rrPet.4. Iecrf.i9. e Mar 6.t 7,t8. u Ga1.4>2,9. * Rotn.9.6. Ai% 53.1 0. vfe. Y I Thef,33 2. L Mat.5.I a. 3. a Mat. 1o.i6. Till 4,15. Teliuerance he meanes, from their malice and treche ry : Bar, if this were the lot of Apoflles and Euangelifls to be peflered, and perilled from fuck, what ffrang.e thing is it if betide vs. Our Sauiour foretold it as the common lot of all Minifiers. Prophets and men ofGod in all times, experimented it. leremie fomewhere o bewailes it; fome- where P plaints of it, not without imprecation vpon the Authors. Ezechiel dwels among 9 6ryarsand themes aryisds Lyons and Scorpions : fee 2 Tim.2. Reafons are fome,common to vs with other Chriflians: I the r enenitie vnreconcileable betwixt the two feeder; exafperated by the Serpent to rage, again(} Miniflers. a WC rrun not with them to the fame exce fe of Riot. 3 There is in our Miniflery foaled-ling that exafpe- rates : i e open and plaine rebuke : 2 denunciation of judgement againfl exorbitants. But holds it in &debit con litutá, where orthodox faith is profefled : where Ma. gifirates are nutting fathers of the Church ? Re/p. t. Not there as legitimated or countenanced. Yet 2 there alfo, as ineslbrahams family, which Paul makes u meafure of our !late to the end of the world. r * All are not Mae], that are of Ifrael. 2 And in Churches moll: reformed are found of this ranke of abfurd and lewd men ; Come almof} of Plimas his pitch, X Enemies to all goodne fe. So that no man fhould be r moued with afflióions of Minitiers, fo as to queflion either truth of their doctrine, or warrantableneffe of calling, or fincerity:of their hearts, nor fo much as imprudence or indifcretion in their carriage, as from this ground : you know or may 'know t We are thereunto ordained. 2 That it hath bin lot of moti faithfull and wife(} of Prophets and Apoffles : 3 Caufes allo you fee euident , corrupt hearts of hearers. Vs it loth not a little folace, to meditate ; we are here- by z forted to Apoles and Prophets, conformed to the Image of our Sauiour, the Great Shepheard of the Sheepe. , Yet fhould teach vs a prudence and circumfpetion in all
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