1..86 The KeepersoftheWals,&c, ~----' ------------------ $~ R..XII. •the credit ofthe Church mull: firfi be taken away , and then £he is wounded, .otherwifeas it is aufu-– all proverbe, Thofe that kill a dog make tha world believe that he wao mad firft: fo they ahvaye5 firfr traduced the Church to the world,and then per– fecuted her.Truthhath alwayes a fcracht foce~Falfhood many times goes under becter habits then , its owne, which God fuffers to exercifeour skill and wifedome that we might not depend upon the ra1h judgement oforhers, but might confider what grounds they have ; not what men doe or whom they oppofe,but from what caufe. Whe– ther from a Spirit ofEnvy,Jdlenejfo,Iealoufie) and Pridt,or from goodgrounds~Elk ifChrifi him– felfe were on earth againe, we il1ould condemne him, as now men doe the generation of the jufi, whom they finite and wound'·and take away theirvaile fi·om them. ~~~~~~:~*~~~~~*·~~~~ The t\velfchSermon~ CANT. V. VII. The Watchmen t/J~t,t we»t ~Z6out theCity found me, they fmoteme,they woundedme,theKeeeers ofthe wals tooke away my vtt~le fr()m me. DHeWatchmen(Thofe that by their place and fianding iliould be fo) they fmote the Church (as Bernt~rdcomplaines al– -. . moll
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