Chap.22. ¡tecording toSt M A T T H B vV. 5a3 fo, but their own guilty confciences? Every man bath a dome- fricall Chaplain within his own bofome, that preacheth over the Sermon tohim again, and comes over him with, Those art theman. Confeience is faid to accuf: or excufe in the mean While, Rom.2.1 . In the interim netw ixt Sermonand Sermon, convicti- on and convic ion. So that perfonall and nominall application is therefore needleffe, becaufe every manbath,a ditcusfve faculty within him, applying feverall truths to every mans particular u- fes. And, n6i generalù ele viti s dis`juratio of , i6i asulliue pert ne cf! injuria, faith Hieroara; Where the difcourfè againft vice is ge- neral', no man can jultly complain of a perfonall injury. By preaching, Chrift many times (mites the earth,Ifa;a 1.4. that ìs, theconfciences ofcarnal men glued to the earth, Gods words hit them full in the teeth, and makes theai fpit bloud. Now if they rage, as Tygres tear themfelvesat the noife ofa drum, ifthey flee in the facesoftheir teachers,and feek revenge upon them,they are commonly cali into a reprobate fenfe,andfeldom efcape the vífble vengeance cfGod, Verfe 46, But When they fMght to layhand, on I»nt, ] And fo (Leved themfelves tobe the fame our Saviour fpake of, ver.394z. As the Popeand his etniífaries do well approve themfelves to be that fade prophet, and his locufts, fet forth in the Revelatiofa. Theirdaily practice is a clear Commentary upon thatobfcur peer phecy, which the ancieet Fathers, that lived not to tee itfulfilled, could not tell what to fay to. Future things arched underltood by their events. CHAP. XXII. Verfe 1. SpikeNaito themagain] THat by one difcourte he might peg inanother. Hehad but a J whí1etobe withmen, and feenow he beaks him. Naturali emotion is more fwift and violent toward the endofit. It wasas pleafant to Chrift to feck mens falvation, as it is to the devil to Peek theirderiruéìion : who therefore doth his utmolt, becaufe he knoweth that he hath but a fhort time,Rev. x z,1 z.his malevolence is motiveto his diligence. Verfe z. Like lento a certain King] God is great King, and be funds upon his feniority, tYYía/.1.8. will be ferved of the L 1 3 belt, , /tEZV.yú ovlX wv<
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