'I'he tender Conflience. Cap.12. bidden-; that jefting E.'u?pr~,;rsAt~, which a• ..... -- mong the Morall Philofophers went-forvir• J!;ph. s. 3· tue, and which common Chriftians account all their grace : He is better taught then to call any fin little, for there is no Pvijimljttle; tieath little, or Hel~ little. He knowes no duty fmall, for. there is no Cornmantlment fmall. Cbrift, thoughhe turned water into wine to refre{h others, would not at Sa~aminfrigatiMatsh. 4·3; on turne a ftene ir/trJ bread to relit~ve himfe~fe. ; he might have done it; for he was .able ; had he done it, who could have call'd it finne? ~ewas then in want; nothi~g to feed upon ~!Jt .hard fiones, yet would he not go out of Gods way, to gratifieSatan.r plaufi ble preten– ces; ·or to relieve his own neceffities. The .matter in which the firfr Adamoffended, fee• med not great' bu~ the offence 1t felfe was ' great. More go daily to hell for fm:zll finnt:l unregczrded,then for your moft horridAthei[m, Blafphemy, De[ptratins, or fi.n againfi theholy' Gbofi.. Now a penny, and then a penny idly fpent, undoes more men then the defperat(_! hundred. pound caft with a Dye : Th~re is i10 heed takennf the one} when moft abhor J:he other. Abab rece~ved his deat4s w~:mnd .through the littlehole that was not heeded in Pfa. r9·12,his Armour. From my focret fiw cleanfo me, I3· faithDavid, as ,well as Keepe me from prefkmp-: tuour jin.1. How.circumfpefrand tender were the Primitive Chdfrians in this point ? They would rather dye_, then cafi theleafi grain of falt or incenfeinto the fire,as the Pagans did to
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