Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

3. In respect of the manner. Self-guilty Pharisees are wont peremptorily to pass their rash censures upon the more righteous then themselves, with much malice, pride, scornfulness, and profane insultation: but the seasonable censures of truly humbled Christians, ought ever to be mingled with much mercifulness, commiseration, sensibleness of their own infirmities, and love.

3. In respect of the manner. Selfe-guilty Pharises are woont peremptorily to passe their rash censures vpon the more righteous then themselues, with much malice, pride, scornefulnesse, and prophane insultation: but the seasonable censures of truely humbled Christians, ought euer to bee mingled with much mercifulnesse, commiseration, sensiblenesse of their owne infirmities, and loue.

4. In respect of evidence and truth. Profane mens censures of Gods servants are many times not only groundless, causeless & false; but also prodigiously absurd, and utterly impossible, without any shadow or show at all of likelihood. The enemies to Christs ministry confidently censured¹ him to have a Devil, in whom notwithstanding the fullness² of the God-head dwelt bodily. Tertullus judged Paul to be a pestilent fellow, when he was the most precious man upon earth. Elijah was accounted a troubler of Israel; who was in truth the very Chariots and horsemen of the same. The Princes suggested to the King, that Jeremiah was a traitor³ to the State; from which he was so far, that he desired his head to be turned into waters, and his eyes into springs of tears, that he might weep day and night for the desolations of it. Proportionable for monstrousness of falsehood, are⁴ many and many censures passed upon Professors at this day. Opposites to the power of godliness are so impudently perverse, that they commonly cut conditions unto others, out