4HAP.;.2 s86 Wp.r,i3. The vieofthis grace. Ian3.r3, a 10.7.r9. 3 Iudc as.. AComnr<eatarie vpont%e David pui on zealé toweed the wickedout of the land: and the tninifter bath bin taught, if he fee beans or flowbellies, to reprooue them fharp- ly. The private perfonntu(t privatelyalto, but yet pl4iaely reprooue his brother, andnotPifer hisfinne upon him, or at the leaft by (hewing his in- dignation againtt (trine, hefreeth his owne foulefrom the guilt of it, as 'alto the puniflunent; yea from the fufpition of it in filch as maybe pre.. fent, who elfe may thinke him that holdeth his tongue a partner, or of content with the firmer. .Qtreff. What is then the vfe of this meekene('e? e. 4nfw. To purifie our zeale,for fo the Apoftle Iaines would haue a wife man to thew forth i his good conuerfation in meek_nes efmifedome, Whichmeekenes òf vif- dome, or wife miltioeffe, I. caufeth aman to put a difference betweene theperfon and the finne; and affeelech him with piaffe to the perfon, euen in revenge of the finne : loiofhuah called exichan, myfaune , whenyet prefently he executed the judgement of death vpon him. 2. Betwee;:^ finne andfinne: for Chriltians are no Stoiks to accountall tannes alike, Tome are motes troubling the eie, fotne are beames putting out the tie: amgte may Toone be blowne away and remooued, a bearne requireth more ticength; wife meekene(fe will more thew it belle in theone, but more retire it Idle in the other., Agame , forre Onnes are more dire fly injurious tomen, and perhaps the partie_himfelfe;others more injurious to God :. Now this meekeneffe of wiledome will be Qlcene in the for- mer, but gitteth place to zeale in the latter. 3.1t dilcerneth betweene /inner and,ßnner: for all (inners are not of a fuite; fome finne of igno- rance, Tome againfi their light andknowledge; fame of weaknes, come of let purpofe, and obftinate wickedneffe; lomeare leaders and fetters offinne, fotne are lead and feduced : tome leeke excufes, as afhamed of that they hauedone; others defences, asglorying in their iniquitie. Now commeththismeeknes ofwifedome, and putteth difference, "hew- togcompaon onfame, and others facing withfears. Thus meeknefle and zeale deftroynot, but ttrengthenoneanother : and thus all meeknes of wifdom: matt be (hewed ro all men, but this is fuch as neither impaireth the glorie ofGod, nor;theproceedings of theGofpel, nor the edificati- onofmen. Vfe. Beware ofthat vice,whichPaul-would here note in the Chri(ii- ansof thofe dayas, which we may well wifh they had not traduced to fundrie profefforsof our times: for they beeing conuertedthey Icor ned vnbeleeuers, and cared nothow carelefhely they carried chemfelues towards them.Which fpice ofpride, Iwould it brakenot out onely not a gaina the godles perfons,but again(+poore beleeuingbrethrc-,as Beare to God, inwardlyas rich, and fotnetimes as farte Nipping them in flore of
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