6. 1. 2. A wholesomeCaveat aJudge,e&c. And when afilidions come, and you then enquire, what is the carafe ofit ? you may be lure this is one, even by the confefhon of the blindeft deboift ones. .Prow. 5. r 2. How have I hated Inflrutfion, and not obeyed the voice ofmy teachers ? 6. They are to feed with power, as the word sraltCad- dey ftgniheth, every one in their places, publickly infiru- aing, exhorting, comforting, and privately alfo; which though private men may do, yet here is the fianzp of au- thority alfo, and fo the more power themore bleffing u- fually, ifGod be acknowledged therein. Ails 20. 28. Hence, i. When men defpife their food; they are poor things theyspeak, and they can fee nomatter in them; and that after finely, prayers and tears, &c. and fo call it by ; this is to call offthe Lord. 2. When men grow glutted and full, Mal. i . nit. al- though they eat not a bit, and hence thrive not, but a fpirit of flumber anda deep fleepgrows on them, that they cannot be awakenedbyall the Ordinances of God, Thefe things call for chains. Amos 8. 12. When will there Sabbaths be ended? for which the Lord threatens a famin, and then you fl:all know the worth ofthem in the want of them. Thefe things I speak. i. Becaufe 1 fee the Apoftle in manyofhis Epifileslayes this charge on the people. Heb. 13. 7, 17.'tis twice repeated. 1. Left Officers be fadded in their work that'sheavy. 2. Left it be unprofi- table for you ; you think toget this and that good by it, but it will be noshing in the conclufion. 2. Becaufe we lie under slander of many, and that godly, as if Elders in Churches were but only Ci- phers. 3. Becaufe people begin to run to extreames, Elders taking all to tleafelves, and people taking all for them. (elves. 4. Becaufe ifherebe not attendance you quickly fee the miferable mine and fall ofChurches , more fad than the burning of SolomonTemple. 'Tisobserved of Pro- :Imam, when he was ,facrificing he had.no leprofie, but wheu firetched out his haqd againfi the Prophet it was withered; for the Lord will not bear here, they may be depifed, and you may thinkyour jellies Kings without them,.i Cor. 4. 8. and they will fay lo, they may rule as they
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