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Caut. 4 4 Take heed thou doest not abate thy ••al in the matters of religion, because it may be thou meetest with much reproach and many scandals from the men of the world for the sake of religion. David was more eager in his dancing before the Ark, notwithstanding the scoffings of his wife. […] scandals and reproaches and troubles will make thee abate thy zeal for God, how wilt never be able to hold out to the end. I will never believe that man will endure a rack for his religion, that cannot bear a reproach. He that cannot endure a frown for it will never endure fire and faggot; if thou canst not endure a taunt or jeer for thy profession of religion, much less wilt thou endure a Gibbet. And so much for the use of Caution.

Caut. 4 4 Take heed thou doest not abate thy ••al in the matters of religion, because it may be thou meetest with much reproach and many scandals from the men of the world for the sake of religion. David was more eager in his dancing before the Ark, notwithstanding the scoffings of his wife. 〈…〉 scandals and reproaches and troubles will make thee abate thy zeal for God, hou wilt never be able to hold out to the end. I will never believe that man will indure a rack for his religion, that cannot bear a reproach. He that cannot indure a frown for it will never indure fire and faggot; if thou canst not indure a taunt or jeer for thy profession of religion, much lesse wilt thou endure a Gibbet. And so much for the use of Caution.

Use. 5 The next use is this: This Doctrine may ⟨p. 49⟩stir up in us an holy lamentation: If it ¹were so, that in the days of John the Baptist men were so holily violent after Jesus Christ and his Ordinances; then how should we lament and bewail our times, when we consider how defective men are now adays, and how much we fall short of those converts at the first plantation of the Gospel?