C H A P.3 . Epif Ile to the Theff'alonians. V E R.3. 237 is coma,a.mcd, or as force fpecifie, irrruira preceptus: or as Saint `Peters phrafe is, for 9 confcience of Ga. To which if you adde that its vniuerfali in all things commaunded. 2 And confiant, if not without interruption, yet without whole giving ouer, or furceafing the courfe; ye haue what characerizeth you r to adoption, and euidenceth your in- terefl to the priuiledges of Gods people. Oh, faith the Lord not without much fhow of paffion, that there were fuch a heart in this people. Deuteronomie 5. 29. What a face of religion and deuotion put they on in E- zechiel ? They fit before thee f even as my people,fo comple- menting with the Lord and his Church. Faces, onely thefe are in pietie. 2 Goe thou neere and heare all that the Lord our Clod (]call fay, and fpeake then vnto vs, whatfoeuer the Lord (hall fpeake veto thee ; and wee will heere it, and doe it. They have well faid, all that they haue fpoken. But ô that there were filch a heart. Deut.5.27.29. Voyces thefe are, as Nightingales, pretereanihil. ; To, thou art unto them,as one that hath Avery lonely fang, of one that u hath a pleafant voyce, and can play *ell on aninfirument. So tickles it the cares in the hearing,yet va- nifheth all with the found. eflfre.r, to thinke cares onely make a Chrifdian. See lam. t. Rom.2. 4 The earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters that cover the fea. Lord,that our obedience were in any proportion anfwerahlc; how fhould the Lord delight in doing vs good. But were our braise -pan as large as the long bird -birds , and fraught with profoun- der knowledge, what fhould all auaile vs, without obedi- ence, except to aggravate our condemnation ? lohn.13.17. t lohn 2.3. John 9. Iam4 vit. Prioilegia they fay are paas- corum; if obedience bee the qualification, thefe bleffed priuiledges belong not to many, 110 not children of the Church. Efpecially, if ye (hall notice, how euen this qualification is further qualified. Three particulars, you may therein uuc JA I Pet 23.9. r t Pet.1.14. Ezech33.3r. tDeut4,27.28, ° Ezeeh.33.3t. vas+.Sréasirri..
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