The Fountain of Life Opened

Inference 2.

¹If Christ were Sealed to his Work by his Father, then how great is the sin of those that reject, and despise such as are sent and Sealed by Jesus Christ: for look as he came to us in his Fathers name, so he hath sent forth by the same Authority, Ministers in his name. And as he acts in his Fathers, so they in his Authority. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world, ²Joh. 17.18. And so Joh. 20.21. As my Father hath sent me, so have I sent you. You may think it a small matter to despise, or reject a Minister of Christ, (a sin in the guilt whereof I think no Age hath been plunged deeper than this) but hear, and let it be a warning to you for ever; in so doing you despise and put the slight both upon the Father that sent Jesus Christ, and upon Christ that sent them. So that it is a rebellion that how ever it seems to begin low, in some small piques against their persons, or some little quarrels at their parts and Utterance, Tones, Methods, or gestures: yet it ••ns high: even to the Fountain head of the most supreme Authority. You that set your selves against a Minister of Christ, set your selves against God the Father, and God the Son, Luk. 10.16. He that heareth you, heareth me•; and he that despiseth you, despised me; and he that ⟨p. 65⟩despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. God expects that yon behave your selves under the word spoken by us, as if he himself spake it. Yea, he expects submission to his word in the mouths of his Ministers, from the greatest on earth. And therefore it was that God so severely punished Zedekiah,