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well- roaonercd exterior, or their strictness in tbs ritual and cenemoiiy of religion, if Iheycast alUbis into the scale against Christ, as did the Pharisees; if tbey use it with the gentleman and the nobla* man, and tho dignitaries of power, in order to reproach and scandaliEe the humble acnrantii and Qif. 4 III.J ood'< coNTAOV&asr v^irit ruz l^hd. 9W diftciptefioflhe Lord Jcau«, bis true tnembert? if jWHWi'-Xhing learning, breeding, and rcU^oua' DC59, tlicy do not make tbeui tbe wiacU witli which to serve tb« t^'ord of lifc icd tbe ^vaters <f the Spirit unto tbe people t I am tick of all such accnmmod&tioiu to Ute tireet tonca und gmccful ItDipeni of Uie aatural roan, » IT Uod had re- quired this at our faanda to tiead bia courta. b iiivere filter that our face should be towmrds thetn like a flint, than viih gracious smiiev^ and vain and foolith courte>ies. We ihould sec in thoin the lineal ehildrcn of the covled monka of other days, thougli dressed in different piiec to suit the and 1 think that in another claii& of our iiii»try, who ply to the pupuhir taste and ha* moor of tho pleheian jjeuplJe, we may see th« ililieal defendants of the skaTeu friars, who with .JtKcbel on their back, and bare of foot, wore wont B(4o {^ther hcmcy from every bee-hive, which they ^^Aight in accret fatten upon and consume. Oh, ^M know not what poor and wicked fear lundereth ^uue from opening tJii^ foul nest to tJie observation HtOf heaven and earth 1 Why are there none to go forth in the c^pirit and power of Elias * Because > they would say. He haili a dcviL is a malignant, is a acomcr, ts a trouhler of the herita^. Let them say it. What then f Ib *t so becanae tthvy h^ve said it T It is not so, elxe Christ was a denouncer and Paul a madroan. How the Lord doth repay oi^n in that jdace and in that kind in which they have oflcDdcd, may be well P'uaaed in the ignorance and immomlily of the pie* concerning which vre now discourse. I men of rank and property, tinder God natural guardianji of tlie people who dwell S86 OOD'5 CONTROTKEtr VITH TBE l-A9fD. [DtM beside them, stnd live upon llieir iiittiiuiSt vul into wbose h&nd God hath commitl^ the pa* Ironage also of bis churcb, that their power to 4o good ui^t be increased ; hare postponed dwM BiviQG cbaifes, and spiritual iDteodcDCic*, and weighty cares of governinent, lo Uie plea^itreH nf the table, and the animal cDJoym^-nts of the chase, to the poiDpaof coorL$,ajid splendour* of state, to'^ Ihc ranitie