Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

3. The Saints and people of God, they do withdraw from the men of the world, and do separate from them; Come out from among them, and be ye separate, touch no unclean thing. Now when we withdraw from men, and from their Worship: We do condemn their Worship; and the men of the world don't love to be condemned. Noah condemned the world; And by the separation of the Saints from them, they do condemn them, and they don't love (I say) to be condemned. To separate from them, and from their Worship, this they cannot bear. The Saints do separate from them, and therefore there is such a deal of anger and wrath in their hearts against them.

4. As the Saints and people of God do separate and withdraw from them, upon which they are much provoked: So the Saints and people of God do hinder them in their proceedings. A man doth not ⟨p. 167⟩love to be hindered in his proceedings: the Saints and people of God, they do hold wicked mens hands that they cannot proceed, hold their hands by their Prayers. I remember a story of Mr. Tyndall, that blessed first Translator of the Bible into English, that dyed a Martyr in Flanders, being then at Antwerp, and much respected by the Merchants there. There was a great report of a certain juggler that could bring a dish of meat from any Princes Table, and so set the Table that they were at with several Dishes, from several Princes Tables: Pray, saith Tyndall to the Merchants, will you let me be at your Supper; Yes, and so they carried him: And when he was there, the Juggler tried his skill, and sweat, and took a great deal of pains; but saith he, I cannot do it, there is some man here that doth hold my hands. And Tyndall only set himself to this, to believe that he should not do it. I speak it only to this, that the people of God, they hold their hands. And in this 76. Psalm, The men of might, they find ••t their hands. There brake he the Arrows of the Bow, the Shield, and the Sword, and the Battle: The stout-hearted are spoiled, They have slept their sleep, and none of the men of might have found their hands. Why? Why there brake he the Bow and the Arrow. There. Where? In Salem. In the Assembly of the Saints, by their Prayers. Now men cannot endure to be hindered in their proceedings. The Saints do it, and therefore there is such a great deal of anger and wrath in the hearts of them against the people of God.