Tenthly, you are appointed by God to be the Judges of other men; 11 Cor. 6. 2. Do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world? yea, Verse 3. Know you not that we shall judge the Angels? God will bring your lives and ways before all the world to judge the world by, and therefore they had need to be very exact, and to have something in them more than ordinary. It is a shameful way of reasoning, for any man to reason for sin, by examples; as it like a thieves, he would fain scape in the crowd; but much more shameful is it, that any godly man ⟨p. 188⟩should be found to argue for sin this way, for this is an aggravation of sin, not a lessening of it, as if I should say, God hath dishonour by such and such, and therefore why may he not have some more by me? Sin is a striking at God, and every sinner strikes at him, and thou comest running for thy stroke too. What? wilt thou have thy blow also at him? and, what thou? for whom the Lord hath done such great things? as Caesar said to Brutus, when 2in the Senate-house, tho Senators had wounded him, with many sore wounds, and Brutus he comes also for his stroke, whereupon Caesar looks on him, and says to him; What? and thou my son Brutus too? Conceive as if thou sawest the Lord looking on thee, and saying thus to thee, when thou venturest upon any sinful way upon the example of others.
Tenthly, you are appointed by God to be the Judges of other men; 11 Cor. 6. 2. Doe you not know that the Saints shall judge the world? yea, Verse 3. Know you not that wee shall judge the Angels? God will bring your lives and wayes before all the world to judge the world by, and therefore they had need to bee very exact, and to have something in them more than ordinary. It is a shamefull way of reasoning, for any man to reason for sinne, by examples; as it like a theese, he would faine scape in the crowd; but much more shamefull is it, that any godly man ⟨p. 188⟩should bee found to argue for sinne this way, for this is an aggravation of sinne, not a lessening of it, as if I should say, God hath dishonour by such and such, and therefore why may he not have some more by me? Sinne is a striking at God, and every sinner strikes at him, and thou commest running for thy stroake too. What? wilt thou have thy blow also at him? and, what thou? for whom the Lord hath done such great things? as Caesar said to Brutus, when 2in the Senate-house, tho Senators had wounded him, with many sore wounds, and Brutus hee comes also for his stroake, whereupon Caesar lookes on him, and sayes to him; What? and thou my sonne Brutus too? Conceive as if thou sawest the Lord looking on thee, and saying thus to thee, when thou ventrest upon any sinfull way upon the example of others.
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