Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

Secondly, Let all holy painful and humble Ministers who make it their design §2(as this fair Copy did before them) to advance God and fulfil the work of their Ministry, trust to his faithfulness for vindicating their esteem. No sort of men have greater promises for provision, protection from, and in trouble, and for revenge of wrongs done unto them, then they have. What a dreadful and prophetical prayer is that Moses made for Levi! ^*smite through the Loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. What though a generation of men Call even the best of such, Antichristian Liars? False Prophets? And what not, did they not after this manner use ^*Christ and his Apostles before them? They speak evil of the things they know not. None of Gods blessed truths, and holy Ordinances have been otherwise used by them: their general outcry is upon all truths, Ordinances and ways of Religion among us, as Antichristian: The Apostasy of the present age makes men fall from all things in Religion, and with an impudent face to deny and deride them all. But did God leave these Jewels amongst men to be trodden under feet by such Swine; Shall they not dearly pay for it? Oh! That they would remember what words came out of the mouth of him that is the very promptuary of all sweetness, and how highly he is provoked, when such words are drawn from his blessed lips, that drop honey: Let them take them to whom they appertain, viz. ^*Whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken: But on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to pieces. If their own destruction will not take them off from touching the Lords anointed, and from plucking the stars out of his hand, let yet the Anguish and vexation that shall accompany their destruction, either deter them, or, confound them: For he hath said it, who will make it good, that there shall be a ^*Resurrection both unto Gods truths, and to such as bear Testimony thereunto: Mean while, let this satisfy such as are faithful, whilst God and those that truly fear God prize faithful Ministers, it matters not what the rest think of them, As King David said in not much an unlike Case,