Taylor - Houston-Packer Collection BS2755 .T394 1619

CtrnP.3.1. cís comwnentarie vponthe 568 Eu,u ryakinga f.oß rn.ecmly nucinn chri. ft'an. Prouto.rr. t Evt,''.;,' Coln11,1 8. 2 8ß0,oe,2ca. lumniaor. 3 crifie. 4. In (peaking ofthingseuill and not Powell done: >c. bÿ unto_ uering infirmities, which is the guile ofcurfed Chams , who areeuer ra uealing to their brethren other mens nakednes;which an ingenuous dif- pofition,yea humanitie it felfe ( ifthere were no religion) would couer and hide: Pro.t i. t ;.He thatgoeth a6out as ainanderer, vncotereth a fcret, but aman ofa faithfullheart concealethamatter. a. whereas we can excule our owne faults twentie wales, by amplifying the faults and offences of others, be they neuer foapparent, we become cull'! fpeakers in a high degree: as fychophants who make the fcapes ofmen fane greater then theyare;alrming often that to be doneof deliberation,which was don rafhly and in bote blood; or prefumpcuoufly,when it was perhaps done but weakely; and imputing that to want of confcience, which perhaps was want ofheedfulncf a and forefight:and thus the finne is heightened, when men fo wickedly fpeake of that which they might altogether to be filent in, and not to fpeake at all. Now becaufe of all finne;, there is not amoremanifef} and general! 'mifcheife in all the life of man, wherein even Chrifìians themlèIues are not exempted, who(noc conceiuing how this littlemember defileth the whole bodic, yea dilìurbeth not the naturali bodie onely, but euen the Politicall and Ecclefiafticall,that is,the Church andCommon- wealth,) carie avery worldof wickednefle about with them, andyet wipe their mouthes,.asthough all were well with them; therefore will it not be a. miffe, to take a littlepineswith this finne, fcarfe fo accounted of, and to Phew, r. how vnfeemely it is for aChrifìian, a. haw dangerous in it felfe, 3. the tneanes to repreflleand auoid ir. For the firiì: Tovtter fliunder ,faithSalomon, isa note of a foole: and the slander it felfe is a looks bolt which is forme ¡hot. And the Apolile in fomany places affirming it tobe the raaite of the olde man which } p !Sr p , mutt bee call. off, maketh it hence anvnbefeeniug thing for Chriflians thatprofefle newe life ,to walke in fuck heathenifh courtes, for the whichGod gaue to many ofthemvp to their owne hearts was, a. This curfed flanking wherbyour brethrëare hurt in their names,is thedeuils language, who thence bath his name,and argueth avenemous and hate- full diípoliition , not becomming the children of God : and therefore when men will fpeake their pleafure ofmen abfent , obtreding and de- tra&ing from then,and yet preface, that they thinke the partie no euill; it is falfe, for thou thimkefs cuill before thou vtrereit it uncalled; and ha. tell him in thy hart,for if thoulouedfs hito, thou would ccuer (not coin). a multitude of fumes. 3. True religion will, not ¡land with fuch a tailing courfe as many Chrifìianstake vp, who. the Athenians, de- light innothingmore then hearing and telling newes; and once getting a tali,

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