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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, they were not daunted, and said, It was necessary that the Word of God should first have been spoken to you, but seeing ye put it from you, and judge your selves unworthy of Eternal Life; lo, we turn to the Gentiles. Indeed you are the Jews, and in Profession the only People of God for the present, and therefore we were to come to offer it at first to you; but seeing you judg your selves unworthy of Eternal Life, that is, if you by your carriage do manifest that you are a ⟨p. 249⟩People no ways suitable to this glorious Gospel, then we turn to the Gentiles; we will pack up our Commodities, and go to some others that will buy it: and indeed, if there be any thing in the World that makes a Faithful Minister go from any Place, it is the rejection of his Ministry: Other things are no such Arguments as this is, and if there be any thing can Warrant it, this as much as any thing, by virtue of this Scripture, and by virtue of my Text, Let your Peace return to you again, and be gone to some other Place: We know the Scripture saith, that Pearls are not to be cast before Dogs, and Swine: And indeed when Men shall prise their Swinish Lusts before the Pearl of the Gospel, all the good that is tendered to them in Jesus Christ; what are they in Gods esteem but as Swine? and why should Pearls always lye before them, that they should trample them under-foot; and therefore the Lord would have his Light to be removed: God Warrants his Ministers in some Cases so to do. But let people know that this is a dreadful condition, if this should fall out concerning them: If the Lord should begin to make a tender of the Mercy of Christ to a People, or particular Souls; and if God should take it away again, that Soul or People is in a most dreadful condition: Perhaps you think you may spare it well enough; but know, if you can do well enough without the Gospel, the Gospel can do well enough without you; when that is taken away from a Place, the very light of that Place is taken away, there is double darkness. I remember I have read of the Christians in Chrysostoms time, howsoever people now make little esteem of the preaching of the Gospel, yet the Christians were so affected with Chrysostom's Ministry;

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, they were not daunted, and said, It was necessary that the Word of God should first have been spoken to you, but seeing ye put it from you, and judge your selves unworthy of Eternal Life; lo, we turn to the Gentiles. Indeed you are the Jews, and in Profession the only People of God for the present, and therefore we were to come to offer it at first to you; but seeing you judg your selves unworthy of Eternal Life, that is, if you by your carriage do manifest that you are a