Now further, for people that liue vnder a good miniſtry, (to ſay a little of them, Moſes his being among the people, doth wofully prognoſticate, vnto what a paſſe they are like to grow, if they had elbow roome. For though none might liue happilier then they, yet who (for the moſt part) doe leſſe looke after it? for as they in Moſes abſence from them but fortie daies, made themſelues a calfe to worſhip: euen ſo the people are ſo brutiſh in theſe daies, and diſordered, euen while their faithfull paſtors liue with them, that the greateſt part of them, take no good by them: what did I ſay? nay they liue moſt offenſiuely vnder them.
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For in me there is no more feare of eternall death, ſeeing my ſoule, beleeuing in the Sonne of God, before death, paſſeth from death to life, I doe no more feare corporall death, becauſe in reſpect of me it is no more a paine inflicted vpon mee for ſin, but a teſtimony of the goodnes of God, who by that way will haue me enter into life, no more a deſtruction vnto mee, but a preparation made for me to attain to a better ſtate, and to liue happilier, nor no more a ſubiect to deſpaire, but an argument of hope, that I ſhall ſee my Sauiour in my fleſh, participating with his life, to be with him without ſpot or wrinkle, feare of death, or vengeance for ſinne: […]
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Nor did’ſt thou courage vvant, though thou did’ſt kill / Thy father, and his pretious bloud did’ſt ſpill. / Would thy valour had beene happilier employ’d, / Though he vvere unvvillingly by thee deſtroy’d. / For thou Ægiſthus kill’dſt unluckily, / And did’ſt fulfill thy hapleſſe fate thereby.
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Notwithſtanding by his free goodneſſe hee hath inveſted us in ſome right, both by Promiſe, Oath and Covenant, by which it is impoſſible, as Saint Paul ſaith, that he ſhould play falſe with us; ſo that though he may ſeem to treat us unjuſtly here, yet hee can and will recompence it happilier to us in an other world, whereas dunghill Flies by his holy will are not capable of another life: […]
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