i S:a It. III. fometimes URWorthily, and give advantages to Patrer in ma:x- hererickes that followed. It isthe man.ner ofour l ~mufun~noji~~, al:iverfaries to make the unwarr~ntableprattife i ~n m~l~u "'!arq, of theancicntertimea rnle oftheir prad.· ife; and 1· tn mmzmu 'lied b 'c. ll . . f t.. • . h . pri. Wh. the ou hu optmens o t111e anciC:nts t etr own . grand tenets.Wherein inboth theyd~Ieunfafe– ly for themfelves, and inj.urieufly towards t'ls, when we upon grounds in fom~ things diffem, which liberty (oft when they fuoulcl not) they will take to themfelves. . I fleep. 1 But howfoever this fieepy condition agree~h to the former tim~s of the Church, yet I with tp~r.e were not caufe toapply it to our felves, in I ' thislatter age of theChurch, wherein manyof theancierit herelies are revived; and befides'the evils that accompany long peace, take hold of ') •. t I us, and will prevaile too far ifwe doe not rowzo ! JJP our ~Ives~ . Tse Church is in theCommonwe.alth, and ufually they .flourifu ar:td fall toge– i ther. Whe.n.thr:re is a flecp of the Church, for \ themoft part there isalleepof the State.Acivill ' flec:P is~~ when ingrounds of d,>mger there is no , ~(ppreh~nfioa of danger, and this fleep isa pu– . nHl1ment oflj>irituall Geep, when with Ephrttim ' a State hathgrayhlfires, and knowethit 11ot, when 1 judgeme_nts abn~ad .owill :nC>l:.awake men ; when · QOiG: an-4 :rincbing wMl not awake, the fleep muA: needs bedetl'. T~hewholeworldalmofi is / in_comhufiiQnroomd~boutus, and many coun·. tries thought themfelves as fafe a little before their troubles, '3S we now thinke our felves. If ·fcare of outwar<l dangerswill not awake, then I . ·- . .. fpi..
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