, .. SinfHll tlnJUttcomfortab/efoffiring. 187 ' . d~erdpre mnit i tek to avoid. Cap. I 3· · I· Thatwe put not our felves uponVa- __ ,- _ luntarie and Arbir.rarie {irifrings, and place RCligi~~ ·and ~onfdence in it when we havedone; thus did the B-aatijiJ ofold,who . didcut, and lance thernfe/lves th.rtt the bloud fol-J.Kt.II, 28 • /owed. Thus do the blinde Papifts at this ~ay Pamance, and DifcipHne themfelves out of · a fttperftitious opinion ofmerit, or {atij: fo1Jion; but they have no than~_pfGod, be- (:aufe though it may proceed from fome · . ~ bJnde ofCon(cience, yet it is a blindedand de– luded Confcience, _n~t that Confcience to– wa,rds .God_(w~ich Peter fpake o~) _Ther~- 2 ret. 2 . 19 ., fore Godw1ll iay to them, Wbo requ.z:red thtr at your bar.tdr? Ifai. I· 12. And as to them who ()ffered theirfonJ and daughteri to M,.. loch, It never came i1i1o my heart, mitlkt did I com.mand them,{uith theL~rd, Jer·7·3·I.-The[{: ~hipgs have indeed a fhew of wi{dom in wiU-'. worfhip, and humilitie, lln~ neglel1iftg:·of th~;Cot.2.u1r~ kodie, not i1J "11:Y hanour. tiJ the [atfsjjip~ of the fle~J•• ~ut thefe ~re ·P_?t the fuffeting~ ·of. Chnihans,nor can.theie fay,They·l>ear the~e as the mark.! of the ~o~d JefiiJ ~~ th~r badie!.~ Ga1.6. 17. · . , . 2~ That wepu11 ·not upon our -felves Vn.:. necej[arie and tmwarr~ntable fufferings by a prepofterottJ apd pr~cipitate interqiedling in ~ufine!fes out of oqr way aqd caUing: Thi~ IS to fi.tfferas bu.fie-borlies inother.menJ m~tters. But that i~ the Apofiles Language is c~ean ~potl~er tqtng then to fuffcr as a Chriihan, ~ 1 t· . · · there- ·
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