And to move you to the practice of this Rule, I shall only offer to you one Consideration, but which hath so much weight in it, that it may be instead of many; As you deal with others, so ye shall be dealt with. With what measure you mere to others, it shall be measured to you, is a proverbial speech often used by our Saviour, and which one time or other you will find to be very significant. God doth many times by his providence order things so, that in this life mens unrighteousness returns upon their own heads and their violent dealing upon their own pates; There is a divine Nemesis, which brings our iniquities upon our selves. No man hath any vice or humour alone, but it may be matched in the world, either in its own kind, or in another; if a man be cruel and insolent, A Bajazet shall meet with a Tamerlane; if a man delight to jeer and abuse others, no man hath so good a wit, but another hath as good a memory; he will remember it to revenge it; He that makes a trade of deceiving and cozening others, he doth but teach others to cozen him; and there are but few Masters in any kind but are outdone by some of their Scholars. But however we may escape the hands of men, how shall we escape our own consciences, either trouble of conscience in this life, or the worm of conscience in the next? how shall we escape the hands of the Living God? how shall we escape the damnation of Hell? 1 Thes. 4.6. Let no man go beyond, or defraud his Brother in any matter, for God is the avenger of all such. He will take their cause into his own hands, and render to us according to our fraudulent and cruel dealing with others, Mat. 18.35. So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you, &c. What our Saviour saith, Mat. 19.29. That there is no man that denies himself in Houses or Lands, &c. for Christs sake and the Gospels, but shall receive in this life a hundred-fold, and in the world to come everlasting life, is true also here. There is no man that is injurious to his Brother in houses, or lands, or good name, or any other thing, but shall probably receive in this world a• hundred-fold; however (without repentance) in the world to come, everlasting misery. In the next world ⟨p. 269⟩men will find, that they have but impoverished themselves by their ill-gotten wealth, and heaped up for themselves treasures of wrath; Read those words and tremble at them, Jam.
And to move you to the practice of this Rule, I shall only offer to you one Consideration, but which hath so much weight in it, that it may be instead of many; As you deal with others, so yee shall bee dealt with. With what measure you mere to others, it shall be measured to you, is a proverbial speech often used by our Saviour, and which one time or other you will finde to be very significant. God doth many times by his providence order things so, that in this life mens unrighteousness returns upon their own heads and their violent dealing upon their own pates; There is a divine Nemesi•, which brings our iniquities upon our selves. No man hath any vice or humour alone, but it may be matched in the world, either in its own kind, or in another; if a man be cruel and insolent, A Bajazet shall meet with a Tamerlane; if a man delight to jeer and abuse others, no man hath so good a wit, but another hath as good a memory; hee will remember it to revenge it; Hee that makes a trade of deceiving and couzening others, hee doth but teach others to couzen him; and there are but few Masters in any kinde but are outdone by some of their Schollars. But however wee may escape the hands of men, how shall wee escape our own consciences, either trouble of conscience in this life, or the worm of conscience in the next? how shall wee escape the hands of the Living God? how shall wee escape the damnation of Hell? 1 Thes. 4.6. Let no man go beyond, or defraud his Brother in any matter, for God is the avenger of all such. Hee will take their cause into his own hands, and render to us according to our fraudulent and cruel dealing with others, Mat. 18.35. So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you, &c. What our Saviour saith, Mat. 19.29. That there is no man that denies himself in Houses or Lands, &c. for Christs sake and the Gospels, but shall receive in this life a hundred-fold, and in the world to come everlasting life, is true also here. There is no man that is injurious to his Brother in houses, or lands, or good name, or any other thing, but shall probably receive in this world a• hundred-fold; however (without repentance) in the world to come, everlasting misery. In the next world ⟨p. 269⟩men will finde, that they have but impoverished themselves by their ill-gotten wealth, and heaped up for themselves treasures of wrath; Read those words and tremble at them, Jam.
