-0 thou foiref/61mong JP omen~&c. 315 { of men in others; we fay in fickndfe,agood con. SER.XIV -} ctit ofthe Phyjitianis halft the cure: [o in reaching, ) a good conceit of the reacher is halfe the lear– ning: The dttttghters oflerufolem had a good con– ceit here in the qudtioning ofthe Church,o thou faireflllm-ong women, what is thy Beloved ff!Ore th~n anothtr Beleved? Let us labour therfor~ to be fuch as may bring honour and credit to Religion,and make it love– ly, that what we doe may make others thinke we doe what we doe to great purpofe, which is ofc times a fpeciall meanes ancl occafion of their converfion. Though properly the caufe ofcon– ver(ion be the Spirir of God in the ordinan~es ~ yet the inducement (many times) and occafiop, is the obfervation of the courfe and carriage of thofe that excell and are knowne tobe eminent in parts and in graces, Emulationadds /}urs to the foule. Doe they take fuGh courfes that are wifer them I, and fhall not I take the like courfe too~ That our enrlea. '!lOUTS mufl be to make-Religi– on lqvely. Paul faith,the emulation oftheGentiles fhall be a Rom.u.u., meanes of the converfion of the .Jewes, when they fhall fee tkem imbraceChrift, they will be encouraged todoe fo alfo : what fhall we thinke - therefore of them that live fo as that they bring · ,an evill reporr, fcandall and reproach upon Re-' ligion <: Great and fearefull is tHeir wickedneffe, that by their ill converfation like Hoplmy and 1 !am 1,17; Phine M difcredit the crdinances ofthe Lord. Now th~ Church thus anfwers the former Qg_eftionto~ching Chrift,My helovedis whiteAnd) ruddy,thechtefi f! of ten thou(and. She is not afraid \ · Y 3 to --=----=-
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