Chap.7. accordiztgto S° M A T T H E VV. 265' ftranger, that hadchidden them for their unbelief, to abide and eat with them. And lukewarm Laodicea, fo roundly reproved, and forely threatned with fhamefull fpewing out, repented, and was reformed ; as fome groundand gather from that title our Sa- viour arfumcs in the Preface to the Epiftle, The beginning of the CreationofGod. Erafe6inr altotertifieth, that there was a flood. flingChurch there in his daies. Next to the not defervingof a i, 4auy' reproof, is the Well takingofit. No fuggar can bereave a pill dubiè refipuit, ofhisbitterncffe. None but thegracious can fay, Let the right& putt's.. eusfinite me. Bees only paffe by Rolesand violets, and fit upon Thyme, which is hot and biting, Moft men, when we leek to fetch them out oftheir fins, toawaken them out of the fnare of the devil, they fret and fnarl, as thofe that are wakened out of fi:ep are apt todo. They fnufand take fcorn, are as hole and mule, untameable, untraetable , the more you rub their galled backs, the more they kick. Thefe ftray-afts will not be brought home, exod.23.4,5. Thcfeold bottles will break with fuchnew wine Themore you touch thefe toads, the more they fwe1L themore you meddlewith theft: ferpents, the more they gather poifon to fpit at you. Go about tocool them, you fhall but adds totheir heat, as the Smiths forge fries, when cold water is cart upon it ; andas hot water, ifstirred , cafteth up the more fume. yofeph it for his good will in this kinde, hated of his brethren : Ionatban ofSaul, who cart ajavelin at him : Micaiab of Ahab,. Amos ofAmaaiah, ?eremy ofhis flagitious Countrey-men, Chrift ofthe Jcws, Paulof the galathians, John Rapt ß of Herod. If Mn touch his white fin ( and who will (land (till to have his eyes pickt out) John. muff to prifon. In other things he will°. dance after Johns pipe ; but if his inert bemedled with, lohn mini hopheadlcffe. Say towreft that {ring in tune, and it will Imp, and breakupon you. Now for filch fcoffing IJhmaels and furious oppof tcs, that refuk to be reformed, hate tobehealed, let them. read their doom, Pf1,50.21,2a. and fee here.,theirdeftiny. Every goodman is bound inconfcience to paffe by them as incorrigible, irreformable) and not toafford them fo much as a pull out o&the fire, fomuch asa caveat to prevert chofe curfes that are cornming upon them. But he that isfile j muß..6efr!thyHill; he mutt wallow as a fwine,and perifh i<n his oArn corruptions; he muff rage as.a mad dog, and run on fo the pit.ofhell, no body muff offer,to Stop ar flay him in his_carierea.. yeçfç
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