A25470:607
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Hence take an account why the wicked of the world do so hate the godly, and reproach and revile them; it is this, They will not be partakers of their sins, they will not commit them, neither will they connive at them; and this is the reason why the world hates them; Ahab hates Michaiah, and himself gives the reason, because he reproved him, 1 King. 22.8. I hate him, he never speaks well of me. Herod hates John Baptist, because he reproves him. No wonder that Ministers of all kind of men in the world are most hated; the case is plain, because they are reprovers. Godly Ministers, are wicked mens reprovers, and wicked men are godly Ministers reproachers, 1 Pet. 4.4. They think it strange you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.
3. Hence take an account why the wicked of the world do so hate the godly, and reproach and revile them; it is this, They will not bee partakers of their sins, they will not commit them, neither will they connive at them; and this is the reason why the world hates them; Ahab hates Michaiah, and himself gives the reason, because hee reproved him, 1 King. 22.8. I hate him, hee never speaks well of mee. Herod hates John Baptist, because hee reproves him. No wonder that Ministers of all kinde of men in the world are most hated; the case is plain, because they are reprovers. Godly Ministers, are wicked mens reprovers, and wicked men are godly Ministers reproachers, 1 Pet. 4.4. They think it strange you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.
4. Here is matter of reproof and humiliation this day for our want of watchfulness in this kind. Oh which of us can say that we are free from the guilt of other mens sins. Every man may cast this bur of reproof and lamentation at his own conscience, and there let it stick. Parents every one, ah my children's sins; Masters, ah my servants sins; Ministers, ah my peoples sins; Rulers, ah my subjects sins. Oh let us deeply mourn for want of relative holiness, and more frequently and fervently pray that prayer. Lord forgive me my other mans sins.