Chap.i6. accordirrgto St MA T T H i: V V. 415 Thos Art An o f fence unto me] Thou doefi thy good will to hin- der me in the courfe of my calling, as Mediatour, wherein, fay fotne, he finned more gricvoully thenafterwards he. did in deny- ing his Matter and was therefore fo fharply rebuked. So when ñ ,rp9vF:ízeK Socrates was fo' by Criton to break prif'on, and fave his life 7P)2) x,i,ru Es by flight ; Friend Criton, faid he, thine earnetìneffe herein were ueTá rrodsg, E3ón7- muchworth, ifit were confifant with uprightneff:: but being , ,S7rH. not fo, the greater it is, themore troubktom.e. I know not (laid day,za?LZW. that Scotch Martyr) by what reafon they fo called them myraano;< friends, which fo greatly laboured to convert ( pervert) me. ¡t 44414°4- Neither will I more ,cfteem them then the Midianite', Which fo "" 53° in times pat: called the children of IfrAel to do facrïfice to their idols. But the things that beofrom] Erewhile it was ofSatan, nowof amen, How eafie is it to defcry a devil in our bait friends fontetirnes, as Rebezies the French Martyr did in his parents ? Satan fuboros filch as may do much withus, and works in them c ffecually for our hurt, as a Smith loth in 0.',13 forge, .tphe,.z,t, They were teno- pted, and thereby tormented, f>a'itili the Apoftle ofthofè Worthies, 11eb. t t . t 7. Satan fpeaks to us fometimes by our friends,as thorow ti He °^ o trunks and canes. Verle 24, IfAny manwill after ma] Not Prep before me, in( fcribetome, s Peter attempted to do, whole fault herein is purpofely recorded,that he might not be (as by the Papitls,f©r po- cialfrti ó .. lirickrefpeets,he is) over-much magnified, naydeified, as is a- bove ohfcrved,and made collateral], a very copcftttate to Chrift himself. -Let him deny' hirnfelf ] Abdicet feip,Gm, Let him abrenounce himfelf fl:uly, peremptorily, again and again (as the word im- porteth.3 with a Rout and itadeniall to founreafonable a requefl, as feltWill be fire tomake to a man , his whole life throughout. Every onebath many a tell withinhimfIf to fay nay to, though never fo dear to him. Levi faid unto his father and tohis mother, Ihave notfern him, neither didhe acknomlydie his brethren, nor knew hsown'ckildr.n, that he might obferveC¡oas Word, and keep his Co- iwenanr, Deut.33 9. This wasmuch, But ha that will be Chrilts Difciple, mutt do more than this,. He muff deny himfclf, his ownreafbn, will, affeCtioi s, appetite, aims, ends, ae''Ìs, righte oufnef e, &c. He mull utterly renouncehimfelf,- as much as if he had nothing at all to. do with himflf. Y;a, he mutt condemn
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