The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…

An upright Christian takes a dishonour done to God more heinous, then a disgrace done to himself; can the true child endure to hear the Father reproached? When Croesus son (though born dumb) saw them go about to kill his father, his tongue-strings unloosed, and he cried out, Kill not King Croesus. He that can hear Christs Divinity spoken against by the Socinian, his Ordinances cried down by the Libertine; & his blood not rise, and his zeal not sparkle forth, is a traitor to the Crown of heaven. Did Christ open his sides for us when the blood run out, and shall not we open our mouths in his vindication? how were the Saints in former times fired with zeal for God? They were as Cyprian affirms tanquam ⟨p. 25⟩leones ignem spirantes, like Lions breathing forth the heavenly flame of zeal.

An upright Christian takes a dishonour done to God more hainous, then a disgrace done to himselfe; can the true childe endure to heare the Father reproached? When Craesus sonne (though born dumb) saw them go about to kill his father, his tongue-strings unloosed, and he cried out, Kill not King Craesus. He that can hear Christs Divinity spoken against by the Socinian, his Ordinances cried down by the Libertine; & his blood not rise, and his zeal not sparkle forth, is a traitour to the Crown of heaven. Did Christ open his sides for us when the blood run out, and shall not we open our mouths in his vindication? how were the Saints in former times fired with zeale for God? They were as Cyprian affirmes tanquam ⟨p. 25⟩leones ignem spirantes, like Lions breathing forth the heavenly flame of zeal.

VIII. An upright Christian will¹ not allow himself in any known sin; he dares not touch the forbidden fruit, Gen. 39. 9. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? though it be a complexion-sin, he dis-inherits it. There's no man but doth propend and incline more to one sin then another