26 a, A Commentary upon the Go[2ei Chap.. than) with too much feverity, even above the Law ; and fhortly J íd.vicef; t. after tortured the miferable Ammonites without all mercy, put- ting them under Paws, harrows , and axes of iron, and making them paff thorow thcbrick-küne, &c. This he did before his cor,fcience was awaked cut of that dead Lethargy ( whereinto Satan had calf him ) by the trumpet of the Law : before he was convincedof fume by the fantlifying Spirit, and purged thereby from thofe pollutions hehad remorfelkÌly wallowed in. But if pf.1,5i,8,13,r3 God will but oncemore make him to hear of joy and gladneffe, that his broken bones may tc j .wee ; . if he will but re{tere unto him the joy ofhis falvatión, and flablifh himwith his free Spirit, then, initeed of cenfuring, and fetting again{t others, he gill teach tranfgreffoursGods waies , and fanners dial be converted unto him. He will no longer infulr, but in mcckneffe initrua thofe that cpt:ofe thatfelt-es, if God peradventure will give, thein (aa he had done him) repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may awake cut of he fnare of the de- a Tim. a, 16. v.il, who (as the o/finnoniter tvereby David) are taken captive by him at his plcafore. Put them in usinde, faith Paul, to seak, evilcfnotran. And why ? For We our felvesa1 (even I Paul, and thou Titus) Were timeline' foolifti, di/òbedient, deceived, &c. and haveyet {till a world ofwork within doors about the dtfco- vering and oppcfing, the mortifying and mourning over our own unrulyHis, and unchrif::ian praftices. A fincere heart is ever moft cenforious and fevere againl it felt: But it is fat here. by fiur Saviour, as a vifible brand upon the face of the hypocrite,. thatas he is ever tampering and needling withother mens motes ; fo he never bath either leifure or plea£eare to look into his own rotten heart, and rebellious conrfes. Galilettt ufed perfpeLsttve glaff.s, todefcry mountains in the Moon : fo doe thofe to findc finks in thofe that are farre better then, themflvcs ; they can pierce beyond theMoon, and fpy the leaft moat in the Sunne,the finalleft infirmity in the mutt glorious Saint ; yea, foute er- routs and rxorbitancies that never had any ex,ftence but in their imagination, detecting thofe fins in others that they flatter in themfelvcs. eflndthenfbalt thou fee clearly, Sec.] There is in every godly man art holy bafhfulnifle, an ingenuous modefly, that he wt uld be foully athamed to charge others with thofe crimes, which he thould allow in bitnfélf. Noj. fo every profligate ,prof (four, froeikfie
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