272 A Commentaryupon the Go fel Chap.7. In etijF. Si turbam ími- tari vclueriri, interpauc®s angu¡?am viam ambulanter non er:t/s. Aug. Levit.a6: 3n Gen.6.8. Rtícmerrupu- ,tñ!!sa raonoberq, sad ebu»dat pietcat; nec nzu!?ip/ex pro. dz¡l, ubi abun- daritrpietat, ine.,ijf. ad Isattla. Imp, Conftant. =:213e:.2.2s. of thepaths of life. Enter therefore in at the (freight gate, faith our Saviour. Vive ut pauci, &c. Live as thofe few live that enter into life eternall,faith Caffiamtr : forif you will needs imitate the multitude, faith Auflin, ye (hall not be numbred among the li- ving in 7erufalem, Ifa.4.3 44. Save your felves from this unto- 1 ardgeneration, faith St Peter, Thine amidff them, as lamps, faith St Paul, as Abrahams lamp that (hone out in the finoaky fur- nace, as the wife-mens filar, that (hewed it felt in the miditof darkntffe, like the moon that holds on her courfe, though thedogs bark at her never fo long, never fo loud ; like the Sun that rcjoy- ceth as a bride-groom to run his race, though the Alantes ( acer- tainpeople) curie himat his riling, becaufe Icorched with his heat: Or ratherlike God himfelf, who then doch his belt works, when men are at worff, overcoming our evill with his good, and not fuffering mens perverfnes to interrupt the courfeof his goodneffe. Swimnot down the Bream of the timesas dead filhes doe ;neither be carried alongby the fwinge and 'wayof the place you dwell in. Let not your lips be polluted by living amonga people of polluted lips, with Ëfay, fwear not with Iofeph, curie not with Peter, comply not with the common fort, learn not the manners of the mad multitude. The worfe they are, thebetter be you ; the more outragious they, the more couragious you, violent for heaven, and valiant for the truth ; therefore walking exac4ly, and therefore re- deeming the time becaufe the dales are evil, and moff men walk at all adventures. To walk with God ( faithBithopBabirgton) is a precious praife,thcugh nonedo it but my feife : and to walk with man, with the world, with a town of parifh in wicked way-es, is a deadly fin,though millions do it bcfides. And,it matters not ( faid 1'licolat BishopofRome) how fmall the number be, ifgodly, nor how great, if ungodly. Noah condemned a worldofwicked peo- ple, by his contrary courfes, and became heir of the righteoufeeecjjo which is byfaith,Heb. x 1.7. whiltft hecontinued righteous, even in his generation, and kept himfelf unfpotted in fo foul a feafon. The Apoffle telleth us, that to liveaccording to the commoncourfe of the world, is no better then to beailedand agitated by the de- vili. But God hath promifed tocake thisuncleanlririt out ofthe land,Zech. x 3. t. Fiat,Fiat. And when Chriff bids us Enter in at the llraightgate, we muff know that his wordsare operative, to caufe us co enter, as when he faid, Lazarus come forth, and in the set there 6e light. l,s, word and Spirit go together.. lie, y
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