Chap.7. 4ccordixg to St M A T T H E V V. 253 accufed, witnefled and pleaded guilty againft thy felf) ro the bench, and there pate fentence ofcondemnation, judging thy felt worthy to be turned intohell-torments. Thus judge your !elves and (pareGod. lout judge nat others,, rafhly, fmifterly, final- ly andperemptorily, NIye be judge,vizd : both firft,of God, into whofe chair ye leap, aid whole children ye condemn, even the generottion ofthePal ; as Davidonce did, and befooled himfelf well-favouredly for it when hehad done. And fecond of men : I =ter buns Goodmen mutt fufped you, bad menicorn you, and all menChun cep drains you, and defrre to be ridot'you, as unfit tolive in a civil fociety. bunore juiJfet ; Therefore judgenothing before the time, behold the Judge Rand- Cen/orewa tin. ethat the door. It is the officeof Angels, to fever the fheep from a /ed tines the goats, the tares from the wheat, the elect from the reprobate. tpriáar. Thofè that undertake peremptorily todetermineofmens finali e- Vaat>n, reve: aate,they know not of what they are,_with thole Ions of Ze. 11:771111 eeq°. bedee, they cake too much upon them, with thofe tonnes of Levi, re,n¡crifrorurn, they underhand neither Whitt they ry, nor thereofthey affirm,, Tti.hern;tt. with thofe impoftors in Timothy. Neither may they efcape here sun, de;n iu uncenfured, that for particular alts, or petty failing, take upon Eccteßacatto them rafhly and harfhly to cenfure their betters many times :. lob ¿SE:, tea plurimi, and Jeremy met with luchas watched for their halting, and made raalt,/ïdexb-Á. them offendours for a word. Thefè pry into every particular more re`ic nutYat narrowly, then Labandid into Jacobs Ituffc ; waiting (as a dog. j;c,cnurc tor` for a bone) for any thing lare befeeming the Saints, that they Ecctef1,4 c, may falten upon with their fangs, that they may tear with their. Nam. 16.7. teeth,and (wallow down with thofe open fepulchers, their throats, Tim. t.7. the good names of others : cenfuring them deeply for humane frailties, unchurching and unbrothering them for unavoidable. infirmities. It is hard meafuring of a man by his hateand beha- viour in a pelt, in a palfàon, which are violent, and have made the holielt,in their heat,little lc lie then beftiall,t Sam. t 5:. t a. PF 1.116., 9. The like may be laid of finc.es Itrengthened by ancient custom, or naturals inciinmtion, or herditary, the linnes ofour parents, or furthered by multitude of temptations and enticements. Handle sex-rtignÈ7.e: thefe gently in the judgement of charity, and joint them again in Gal.o ;. the fpir_it of meekncll'e, confidering thy felf, left, thou..al(i.be tern- AAtfumae. a:sz.. peed. It is.not.to be liked,. when men leapfrom the cradle of pro- fac c 2o teflon, into the chair of cenfure, blinder then beetles at home, b;e¡l, (harper then Eaglesabroad. Charity and humility would teach them to wink attinalf faults, as God doth, .and capita that
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