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4. Moreover you are not to be believed because you speak against the experience of all the Prophets and Apostles of Christ. David had rather be a door keeper in the house of God, then dwell in the tents of wickedness; and judged a day in his Courts to be better then a thousand, Psal. 84. 10. and accounted them the blessed men that might even dwell in the house of God, and be daily taken up in holy praise and worship, Psal. 65. 4. & 92. 13. & 23. 6. When he was forced from the house and public worship of God, it was his daily lamentation, and he fainteth, and panteth, and longeth after the house and worship of God again, Psal. 42. & 84. 2, 3, 4, 5. [How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of hosts? My soul longeth, yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: My beart and my flesh crieth out for the living God:—Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee: Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the ways of them] The Prophet Isaiah saith [In the way of thy judgements O Lord have we waited for thee: the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee: with my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early.] This was the mind of all the Prophets and Apostles: and God hath told us that it is the practice of all blessed men, to Meditate in Gods word day night, Psal. 1. 2. And yet will you say that it was a better world when there was less of this? O self-condemning Hypocrites! Why do you so much profess to honour the Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs of Christ, if you think that they were the troublers of the world, and that their doctrine and practice makes us worse? Why do you honour them with the name of Saints, and yet despise both their doctrine and practice in those that do but endeavour seriously to imitate them! Why keep you Holy days in remembrance of the dead Saints, and say that the world in the worse for the living Saints? O horrible hypocrisy! to honour their names, and hate their doctrine and course of life, and say that the world was never good since it was troubled with such as they! Do we trouble you with our Preaching, and praying, and our stir for heaven?