I 28~ S:e.1t. XI. ..drif't'P. Why the watcb men are the wonders of tiJe Church. \ I i Tlic rVatchmr:n,&c. · \ ------'-' -- ·--- \ \Vhowere bittc:rer enemies of~he poor Church I in ~hnfis ti:ne then tQ.e ScriGes, Pharifees and ll Prtejls. - And [o in the time ofthe Prophets, who were the greatefi enemies the Church had~ but faHe I Priejlsand Prophets? . What u theground of thi5,thattho{e men that Gy theirjlandingjbouldGe encouragers_an rather dam. pers ofrheChurches '{e.tleinpurfoit ofit? · Thereare many groundsof it. Sometimes it fals out fiom a fpirir of envy in them at the graces of Gods people which are wanting in rhem[elves , they would not have othersbetter then themfdves. Sointimes from Ilileneffe,whiehmakes them hate ail fuch as provoke them to pains;they raife up the dignity ofoutward things too much, as we fee in Popery, they makeevery thing to con· 1fer grace,as if they had afpeciall verruein them; bm they negled: that wherewith God hlth joy. ned an efficacy,bis owne ordinances. This fhouldte;1ch u~, To_Gc in love with.cbrifts governmmt, and to fee the vanity of all things here below, though they be never fo excdknt in their ordinance. Such is the poyfon of mans hcan,and the malice of Satan, that tb_ey turn the edge of the belt things again!l: the good of the Church. What is more excellent then Magiftracy, yet many times the point of the fword is directed the wrongway.I havefordyeare gods,Pfal.8z.6. They fhould governe, as God himfelfe would 'governe,\ ----------~------------~--------------.
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