& Tf any domineer over you, as if you were their Slaves, or if any bring you into ſubjeQion to the Rites of the Ceremonial Law 3 : / | : if they dzvour and make a prey of you, & take Wages of you, and | Mention particularly. | do nothing without hire, if they carry themſelves proudly, exalt- | ing chemſelves above you, m nay if they /mite you, you will (1 uffer | iz perils of robbers e, in perils by my own COnry men f, and bear with ſuch z this is more than to bear with a little folly | ;,, perils in the city g, in perils in the wilderneſs h, ; and indiſcretion in me. This is obſervable, that men of corrupt hearts and looſe lives, will better bear with Teachers that will hu- . mour and ſpare them in their Luſts, than with ſuch as are faithful k to their Souls in inftrutting and reproving them, tho' they carry 0 | themſelves with the greateſt innocency and juſtice towards them. . F y- $01 ſpeak as concerning reproach *, as though we upon as an Apoſtate from their Religion. g in many Cities q | had been weak »: Howbeit, wherein ſoever any is | where he preached the Goſpel (as we find in the 4&5 of rhe Apu- bold, I ſpeak fooliſhly, I am bold alſo o. hs Re. TOO as o thoſe _ they wo -_ mes; w__ by them repreſented to vou as tho' IT were weak and contemptible; as NR indeed i pay as to my Perſin, but not as to my Dodrin, and the | the Apoſtle as any he had. of Miracles 1 have wrought among you. 0 And being ſome of them D are ſo confident in boaſting what they are, and what they have done if and ſuffered Let me bea little 501d as well as they, in telling you | and nakednels /. r what 1 am, and what I have done and ſuffered. i! wil... 22 Are they Hebrews? * ſo amlT Pp: Are they cident to ſuch as travel in foreign Countries. Of this nature were e- Iſraelites? ſoaml q: Are they the ſeed of Abraham ? _ foam] r: E] . vil þ This would incline us to think, that ſome (at leaſt) of thoſe "_ corrupt Teachers, upon whom the Apoftle hath ſo much refletted, m- were Jews, who had endeavoured to corrupt the Gentile Churches | 0-4; of the Miniftry. my with their Traditions, and impoſing on them the Ceremonial Rites = of the Jewiſh Church. Others think otherwiſe, and that the words Import no more than this; Do they glory in the antiquity of their oo dock and Parentage, as deſcending from Abraham ? TI have as much | C hurches 7. | a upon that account to glory in as they ; For altho' T was born, not ; . , : on" wy . 19s in Fudee, but in Tarſus, a City of Cilicia (AF. 22.3.) yet T was | thoſe Evils which happened to him from Perſons that had no rela , a Jew, an Hebrew of the Hebrews, Phil. 3-5. q Will they derive \nd trom Facob, to whom God gave the name of /ſ-ae!, from whence all ) be his Poſterity were called /ſraelires ? So am I (faith he) I can derive 1eIT from Facob as well as they. r Will they glory in this, that they are dri- the ſeed of Abraham ? (this was a great boaft of the Jews,as we learn heir from Math. 4. and Foh. $.) faith the Apoſtle, T have on that ac- and count as much to glory in as they. Some here inquire, What dif- righ- erence-there is in theſe three things? for to be an 27-brew, and an heir razlite, and of the ſeed of Abraham, ſeem all to tignifie the ſame
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and down preachins the Goſpel, and they further had, both a power, and alſo an obligation, to ſuperintend all other Churches, and to dire the Affairs of them relating to Order and Govern- ment ; And thereupon they were mightily concerned about their doing well or j!l. 29 * Whois weak, and I am not weak 0? who is olF-nded, and I burn not p?
0 Fo, may becither what Church? or what particulzy Criſtian in anv Church, is wet, e968, through outward afflictions, or n r-{p2& of inward ſpiritual troubles? and 1 do not ſympathize with
that Church, or with that perſon ? p Who is offended, or ſcanda- |
lized, under t2mptations to be ſeduced, and fall into {in, and I am not on fire with an holy zeal for the glory of God, and the good of his Soul, if poſſible to keep him upright ? By which the Apoſtle doth not only ſhew us what was his own holy temper, but what ſhould be the temper of every faithful Miniiter, as to his Pro- vince, or that part of the Church over which he is concerned to watch: viz. to have a true compaſſion to every Member of it, to watch over his flock, inquiring diligently into the ſtate of ir; to have a quick ſenſe of any evils under which they, or any of them labour. This is indecd the duty of every private Member, but more eſp2cially of him whoſe Office is to feed any part of the flock of Chrift, Rom. 12.15. In this the Members of the ſpiritual, my- ſtical Body of Chriſt ſhould anſwer to the Members of the Body Natural, (to which our Apoſtle before reſembled it.)
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