Lastly, we had need take heed of breaches, lest God should §12be provoked to change his administrations toward us; if there be so much choler in the stomach, that sweet meats are turned into choler, it were just with God to come with bitter and sour pills to purge out our choler. We read Jude, ver. 5. The Lord saved the people out of the land of Egypt, yet afterward he destroyed them that believed not; the Lord hath granted us a great salvation from our Enemies, who would have brought us into Egyptian bondage. We have been singing the song of Moses, we have been praising God according to that, Apoc. 15. 3. but let us take heed that yet God be not provoked against us, for we are not out of all danger; as they by not believing, so we by not agreeing, but contending and quarrelling may at l•st be destroyed. You know how the Lord of that servant to whom 10000. talents were given, took it, that he should presently go to his fellow-servant who ought him but a hundred pence, and lay hands on him, and take him by the throat, and say, Pay that thou owest, and cast him into prison, Mat. 18. 28. If men be not mollified by this mercy, they will be hardened, they will use their brethren worse then they did before, the rather, because they would declare to all the world, that they make no such interpretation of this mercy, as that God would have them have further tender regard towards, to seek union and peace with, to bear with or yield unto their Brethren more then before; it is not unlikely but temptation may be suggested to do some act the more against them, either now or within a while, to wipe away any conceit of any such an interpretation of this gracious work of God for us. But those who are of gracious & peaceable spirits, should take the ⟨p. 134⟩hint of this, and go to all they know, who have been at distance one from another, of whom they may have hope to do good, and seek to mollify their spirits, to know what it is they have one against another, what prejudices, what hard thoughts have been entertained by them, and by all means they are able to remove them, that so we loving & delighting in one another, the Lord may love us, and delight in us, nad show mercy to us yet more and more.
Lastly, we had need take heed of breaches, lest God should §12be provoked to change his administrations toward us; if there be so much choller in the stomack, that sweet meats are turned into choller, it were just with God to come with bitter and sowr pils to purge out our choller. We read Jude, ver. 5. The Lord saved the people out of the land of Egypt, yet afterward he destroyed them that believed not; the Lord hath granted us a great salvation from our Enemies, who would have brought us into Egyptian bondage. We have been singing the song of Moses, we have been praising God according to that, Apoc. 15. 3. but let us take heed that yet God be not provoked against us, for we are not out of all danger; as they by not believing, so we by not agreeing, but contending and quarrelling may at l•st be destroyed. You know how the Lord of that servant to whom 10000. talents were given, tooke it, that he should presently go to his fellow-servant who ought him but a hundred pence, and lay hands on him, and take him by the throat, and say, Pay that thou owest, and cast him into prison, Mat. 18. 28. If men be not mollified by this mercy, they will be hardened, they will use their brethren worse then they did before, the rather, because they would declare to all the world, that they make no such interpretation of this mercy, as that God would have them have further tender regard towards, to seek union and peace with, to beare with or yeeld unto their Brethren more then before; it is not unlikely but temptation may be suggested to do some act the more against them, either now or within a while, to wipe away any conceit of any such an interpretation of this gracious work of God for us. But those who are of gracious & peaceable spirits, should take the ⟨p. 134⟩hint of this, and goe to all they know, who have been at distance one from another, of whom they may have hope to doe good, and seek to mollifie their spirits, to know what it is they have one against another, what prejudices, what hard thoughts have been entertained by them, and by all meanes they are able to remove them, that so we loving & delighting in one another, the Lord may love us, and delight in us, nad shew mercy to us yet more and more.
