the State what you have given to quench these sparkes ere they brake out into devouring flames And I question not but when ever the Chronicles of these times shall come to be written the zeale the fidelity the self-deniall the courage the diligence of this famous Citie will fil whole Pages with your just and due commendation Not only families but houses of Parliament not onely Countries but Kingdomes are sensible of your forwardnesse and doe daily blesse God for it Well! give mee leave now as a poore Minister of Jesus Christ to presse one thing more upon you viz. that you would erect some further monument holding a proportion with what you have done already something worthy of this religious this renowned Citie That you would lay a traine how to reduce poore soules that goe astray and how to bring them into a good way that leads to eternall rest It is my advantage that I have the opportunity to speake in such an auditory upon such an argument There is great reason that wee should take notice of what cost and charges you have beene at this last yeare in the foure Hospitalls of this Citie and in the maintenance of the great number of poore children and others I need not goe over all the particulars they have been read againe and againe to your honour many whose wounds have been healed by you are blessing God for you and many hungry bellies which you have fed are magnifying him and many children I hope are learning to blesse the name of that God that hath put it into your hearts to do so much good for them and I am confident you will heare comfortably of it hereafter at the day of Judgment Possibly all this may be done and yet some further care to bee taken for the reducing of soules into such a good way that might lead them to their eternall rest and to this purpose I will be bold to suggest some few directions First Lay a traine for the education of youth in the knowledge of this good way for the multiplying of such faithfull guides as may discover and lead others into this way It is a peece of Luthers counsell if ever you would have a good Reformation looke to the education of Children You cloath their bodies and you feed them It is mercifully done it is good Gospel fruit it is worthy of Christianity But I beseech you withall take care for their precious soules Acquaint them betimes with Gods wayes And you more especially that have the government of this famous City look to your Citie Schooles looke that there be principles of Religion as well as Learning laid and sown and scattered among these young Generations So you will lay a traine indeed to bring their soules into the good way and to this purpose provide that there may bee more faithfull guides to steere and direct them in this way That were indeed an enterprise worthy of such a Citie as this is Let us not bee ashamed to learne any thing from the Jesuites which is fit to bee learned from them who are most studious in this art they goe up and downe and observe what youths are most pregnant who are likely to bee good disputants and who are likely to bee good Statesmen and who are likely to bee good Oratours and out of each of these they will take a number whom out of the publique charge they will maintaine that their parts and abilities may bee improved to the greatest advantage both to themselves and the Common-wealth I doubt not but this City might honour God and honour themselves in some such course as this is In all your Hospitalls in all your Schooles let there bee a wise observing by those that are able to discerne what is the proper genius spirit and disposition of young Youths where is any of speciall parts that hath not onely seeds of piety but singular indowments of nature And though I would bee loath to presse upon so bountifull a City as this any thing that might adde to your vast charges which you have been already at yet I could wish with all my heart that some publique Stocks were raised in some way most suitable that such as I speake of might bee maintained and consecrated to the study of Learning and being sent to the Universities might prove in their generations faithfull guides in this good way God hath beene pleased already to shine upon us in the hopefull beginning of Reformation of Universities and every one of us in our way and place are to further that worke wherein we are all more or lesse especially concerned This will most Succesfully bee done by sending such persons thither as may bee most capable of improvement there which may not for want of parts bee discouraged from following those studies which shall there bee required of them and then for want of imployment in their studies runne-out into such vicious courses as may make them to rue the day that ever they came thither The rule which Parents have gone by formerly in making such and such Children Scholars has beene a respect to their owne education They have been Scholars it may be themselves and therefore thinke that their Sonnes however qualifed must needs be so also and others by very sinister respects Gentlemen if they have divers Children to make Scholars of those which are the youngest as a shift rather then a calling and somewhat whereby they might rather provide for their worldly subsistence then for the service of the Church Common-wealth Now that which I commend to your Wisdomes in this point of publique Education is to bee carryed by another Consideration to wit of the pregnancy of parts and capacity in Children such being cherished and promoted in Learning they may by Gods blessing prove able guides to bring others into the good way Secondly looke to your Family Religion For as your Schools have a subordination to Universities so Families to Schooles The reformation of the one will not so much availe without reformation of the other And both have a subordination to the Church To this intent let Masters let Parents Oh that Husbands and Wives likewise would love one anothers Soule so well as to bee quickning and helping forward one another in this good way I say let Masters let Parents catechise their Children and Servants and instruct them in the principles of Religion Doubtlesse this is the way to make them fit to bee usefull Church-members You expect the Minister should doe all truly there will not so much bee done unlesse you maintaine an harmony of Ordinances When a Minister shall Preach and Catechise and instruct in Publique and when a Father shall deale with his Children when hee commeth home in private and call them to an account of their profiting by the publike administrations Oh this harmony being maintained it will still lay a better traine how to reduce those that goe astray It is a most unhappy
the kernell and soule that should enliven it To doe Religious duties from Religious grounds upon Religious motives for Religious ends that you may please God therewith as well as profit your selves is such a secret as some who have been hearers for twenty or thirty yeares are little acquainted with Secondly as the good way lies deepe so even the best guides may bee mistaken the mostable learned godly Ministers in some things may possibly bee deceived themselves and deceive others It is observable 1 Cor. 3. 12 c. Ministers may build upon the right foundation and they themselves bee saved being godly yet their worke shall bee lost because though upon the right foundation yet they build hay stubble wood such trash of errors or aiâ—y and empty speculations not gold silver and precious stones wholsome and substantiall heavenly truths not considering that the foundation as it is the strength so it should bee the rule of the building and all the superstructions should bee commensurate to the foundation every way correspondent to the will mind and glory of Jesus Christ Learning and goodnesse doth not exempt men from these mistakes If you looke into 1 King 13. you shall find an amazing example of an old Prophet who discovers some goodnesse ver. 30 31 32. Yet you have him ver. 18. seducing another Prophet who had been zealously active in the cause of God as appeares in the beginning of the Chapter the greater pity that hee should bee so much abused This old Prophet speakes like a grave Father to him ver. 18. I am a Prophet also as thou art and an Angel spake unto mee by the word of the Lord saying Bring him back with thee into thine house that hee may eate bread and drink water But hee lied unto him Hee pretends a Revelation from God to bring back the Prophet expressely contrary to what instructions hee had received of God ver. 9. An Angell spake to me by the Word of the Lord It is possible you see for grave Ministers to palliate their untruths with pretended Revelations Hereby this Prophet was mis-led out of the good Way and put upon that disobedience against God which cost him his life Indeed soone after which is fit to bee observed ver. 21 22. God reproves his disobedience by the old Prophet who was the occasion to bring him into error Wee speak wee act as God is pleased to assist or withdraw When God will use a man then hee shall bee a Counsellor a reprover but when hee is left to himselfe then even an old Prophet may bee a seducer a deceiver No wonder to see so many of our younger Prophets and other Christians mis-led in these latter dayes when old Prophets may and do too often pretend the greatest authority abusing Gods own name to countenance their errors The primitive times afford us too many sad instances that the greatest Lights may have a mixture of darknesse Origen and Tertullian erred so foulely one amongst the Greekes the other amongst the Latines that each of them was accounted in those times Tentatio magna in Ecclesiâ A sore temptation a great stumbling block in the Church Augustin upon a very weak ground Joh 6. 53. countenanced stiffely that Infants should receive the Lords Supper which error of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as sandy a bottom as it had continued in the Church divers hundred yeeres Jereme though learned to admiration doted on the merit of virginity It were easie to shew the naevi the blemishes of others but why should wee uncover our Fathers nakednesse onely thus farre improve it being that the greatest Oracles of learning and piety may in sundry points bee deceived Prophets and Apostles only whose call was extraordinary â—ad an unerring spirit good men may sometimes lead us out of the good way Therefore by all this wee are the more strongly ingaged to stand see and inquire what is the good old way and not suddenly to take things from any upon trust in the great concernments of our soules Doth the Lord call upon you to bee carefully inquisitive in the concernments of your soules O then learn to bee pâ—â—dâ—nâ— to bee serious in trying every way before you ingage your selfe therein Certainly the wise God who never thinks or speaks in vaine would not have spent so many severall words Stand see aske had not the businesse been of singular consequence I with Christians would learn of Politicians when they have to doe with men like themselves non cito credere not to bee too credulous It was a noble straine of prudent piety in the Bereans Act. 17. 11. They did receive the word with all readinesse of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether thâ—se things were so even when Paul and Silas were the Teachers How vigilant would they have been in these times when there are so many suspicious Doctrines preached so many adulterate wayes obtruded upon ignorant well-meaning hearers It is good counsell which is given 1 Thess. 5. 21. Try all things â—old fast that which iâ— good take in nothing upon trust whosoever bee the Teacher unlesse you bee sure it bee God himselfe If God speake then wee must never dispute but obey But unlesse you know it commeth undoubtedly from God try all things try all practises that are commended to you try all Doctrines that are held forth as a rule of these practises yea try all revelations that any man shall pretend by which hee receives these doctrines for this you must know those practises those evill wayes are most dangerous in which men are confirmed by any doctrine by any setled opinion If a man rush suddenly by incogitancy and by temptation into a bad way hee is more easily recoverable But if hee shall bee rooted in a bad way by an unsound rule of doctrine that doctrine had need especially to bee considered When the man that commends such a way shall pretend hee had this by a discovery from God himselfe and that hee hath such and such a Revelation As Montanus and some of the old Hereticks in the primitive times pretended to such opinions by revelation and so there was no disputing against them If a man would tell you hee is in such and such an opinion and that for such and such reasons possibly you may overthrow his reasons and so convert him from the error of his way But if hee shall come and tell you I hold such and such an opinion How came you by it I had such and such a revelation for it It is a hard matter to convince such a man because hee will fondly stick to his Revelation and confidently obtrude it upon otherâ— But let these bee tryed Try every spirit 1 Joh. 4. 1. Make account there are false Teachers gone out into the world such as God himselfe never sent Beleeve not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false Prophets are gone out True Prophets they
3. Some other things are onely necessary in that they are commanded by God or may bee deduced from his Word and therefore are to bee obeyed according to that knowledge a man hath or may have of them About some of these such as are of the lowest degree not beeing fundamentall godly and learned Divines may differ in some opinions Againe these opinions are either kept private or made publicke Doubtlesse when they are not published and propagated to the disturbance of others much indulgence may bee showne to dissenting Brethren who peaceably injoy their owne opinions And as divers Truths admit a latitude so likewise some practises into which those Truths lead in both which some differences may bee borne It is observed Paul and Barnabas jarred yet both Preached the Gospel Cyprian and Cornelius differed in judgement yet both pillars of the Christian Faith Chrysostome and Epiphanius disagreed yet both Enemies to the Arians Indeed if men will vent their own conceits as commonly they are bigge with them longing to bee delivered whereby they puzzle and distract others it much alters the case and makes them more uncapable of connivence and that especially when their opinions tend to such practises as undermine the power of godlinesse or peace of the Church Christ blamed it in the Church of Pergamus that such were suffered there Rev. 2814. who held such doctrine as taught one to cast stumbling-blocks before others Quest May any compulsion bee used by Magistrates to draw people into the one good way Answ. It is concluded by most able godly and sober Divines that in some cases power may lawfully and seasonably bee imployed in matters of Religion 1 Power may and must indevour to hinder the blaspheming of the True Religion and to suppresse the propagating of a false Religion Consider Deut. 13. Inticers to Idolatry were to bâ—e stoned to death and that doubtlesse in a judiciall way 2. Though men cannot bee compelled to the profession of the True faith yet by Authority they may bee even constrained to attend upon the meanes of knowing God and that good way which leads to him Consider zealous Josiahs example 2 Chron. 34. 33. If you cannot perswade men to bee good Protestants yet strive to keepe them from acting Popery bring them into the light of the Sunne of Righteousnesse possibly they may learne thereby to abhorre Popish darknesse And now especially when wee have so solemnly Covenanted for the extirpation of Popery far bee it from any to dispute for a toleration thereof or to give way to any such Principles as will by naturall consequence infer it Quest What then shall wee doe with all those in England who are ingaged in different waies both in regard of their opinions and practises Answ. It should make us lye in the dust and melt into teares that wee have so many distractions in the Church by reason of differences amongst us One extremity hath begotten another Many desiring to runne farre from Popery and Prelacy which formerly oppressed their spirits have now before they were aware ingaged themselves in the very quarters of the Arminians and Socinians joyning with them to undermine the Civill Magistracy the calling and power of the Ministery to enervate the Sacraments and question the immortality of the soule Witnesse a dangerous Book lately written pleading for the mortality of the Soule which will open the flood-gates of prophanenesse and so poore hearts are in danger to lose the good way Yet alasse how much doe they perplex themselves and discourage others as if the Reformers in Parliament and Assembly were acting the part of the Hornes Zach. 1. 21. to scatter Judah and Hierusalem uttering these sad expressions Wee shall not bee tolerated wee must bee banished the persecution is like to bee as hot as under the Prelates and so much more inflame the present troubles I shall briefly suggest two things for resolving this great doubt proposed which puzzles so many First Before wee speake or think of tolerating or banishing let us all both Minister and people labour to reduce all those from their errors who are gone out of the good Way Too many weary themselves and others in projecting what shall become of people who are of this and that way but rather let us lay out our most serious thoughts how wee may recover them who are seduced Jam. 5. 19 20. It is an high act of Mercy to convert a sinner from the error of his way wee shall save a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sins doe what you can to save them as Jude directs ver. 22 23. Secondly Let us indevour not onely to reduce some from their grosse errors into the good way but also seek such a reconciliation of lesser differences with others that Brethren who hope to spend eternity in Heaven together may walke peaceably and lovingly in this good way Inquire what latitude in opinion and practice the Scripture allows No good Christian will desire more Some things the Apostles commanded as being necessary some things they commended and advised as being expedient some other things which were meerely indifferent they left indifferent without the least violation of the Churches Liberty Let every one of us please â—iâ— neighbour for his good to edification Rom. 15. 2. O that wee could all indevour to keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peaâ—â— Paul presseth this upon us by seven strong reasons in three short verses Ephâ—s 4. 4 5 6. and indevours to ingageus hereunto with most sweet affectionate expressions in Phil. 2. 1 2. If therfore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowâ—ls and mercies fulfill yee my joy that yee may bee like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind A reducing of some into the good way that leads to Soule-refreshing rest a composing of differences amongst others who walk therein will so answer this question as to prevent the inconvenience of such a toleration as some desire and the danger of that banishing which others feare Give me leave Right Honorable and beloved to bespeake the improvement of your wisedome and zeale of your interest and influence for the carrying on of this soule-refreshing designe Doe not satisfie your selves that God hath brought you into the good way It is indeed an admirable mercy worthy of everlasting praises that when your faces were Devill-ward and Hell-ward hee hath turned so many of them Christ-ward and Heaven-ward I hope you love the soules of your children friends servants and people so well that you wil easily be perswaded to bestirre your selves seriously how to bring them who yet goe astray by ignorance prophanenesse or security into the good way that they may all find rest with you therein It will stand upon record for the honour of this renowned Citie what you have done since these publique troubles began for the good of the Church and for the good of
thing that many times the Master and Mistris come to Church themselves when it may bee the servants in the mean while are in Tavernes and Ale-houses and up and downe in one corner of the Suburbs or other and possibly you never so much as question them at night where they have beene and what accompt they can give of the Sermon which has been Preached what Manna they have gathered this day if you would reduce your Servants Soules if you would have them obtaine happy rest love them so well as to bee preparing them by Religious principles to walke in this good way Dâ—ale not with your Servants as you doe with your Horses let them work out their strength spirits when they have served you so long there is an end what becomes of their soules and eternall condition many of you care very little whereas indeed you should rather consider you are as well intrusted with their Soules as they intrusted with your Estates may bee thy Servants Sinnes stand upon thy account some of them may now bee roaring in Hell for those offences which either they learnt from thee or were borne in by thee O bee intreated to have an eye upon your Families too many of them looke too like the Devils Chappels give diligence rather that they may bee little Churches to the great God How sweet will this Rest bee if after thy praying and use of all good meanes that thy Children may bee found Gods Children thy Servants Gods Servants walking in the good way Parents and Children Masters and Servants may keep house together eternally in heaven Thirdly incourage your faithfull Ministers not onely in Preaching but in short Catechising briefe expounding the Scriptures such exercises might prove a very compendious method to lead many into the good way Let able Ministers study to Preach plainly yet ordinary hearers are not at the first capable of the series of a set Discourse unlesse they bee prepared for this by teaching them the A. B. C. of Christanity in the very principles and by giving them line upon line and precept upon precept in some easie and familiar manner If the Lord please to blesse us with this fruit of Reformation that reading of long Liturgies bee turned into short expounding of Scriptures when they are read in the publike Assemblies by some briefe hints to cleare difficult and presse most seasonable places upon the hearers doubtlesse it might reduce many and much edifie other peoples soules in the good way Many parts of England have already tasted the sweetnessâ— of this exchange I know no place which might more easily obtaine this precious advantage then this City where you have so many able Teachers who know how to divide the word aright Why should not you have such morning Exercises in London as are lately set up in your Neighbour City wherein your good Scribes might open their Treasures bringing forth new and old to the enriching of your soules Hereby you might recover much precious time out of the hands of sleepe and sloathfullnesse and without making any great breach in your ordinary employments get a good Gospell breakefast next your heart in the morning You would trade the better all the day if you begin first to trade with Christ in the morning Yea hereby your Soule-Nurses giving you the sincere milke of Gods word drop by drop you would be better prepared for strong meat and inabled to walk actively in the good way Fourthly forget not to throw stumbling blocks out of the good way If ever you would reduce soules represent Religion as a lovely and beautifull thing that so you may commend it to the hearts and consciences of them among whom you live O this might gaine many into the good way People judge of Religion as they find you may spend many houres in your Closet and they taste it not You may spend many dayes in publike Fasts they tast not that presently but now if your Religion makes you also just and maketh you mercifull and good Neighbours and good Landlords and good in your Relations all you deale with will taste of your Religion but though such a man or woman heareth so many Sermons and such a Lord and Lady frequents so many Fasts if still as hard hearted and as proud and as censorious and as vaine as ever here you cast a stumbling blocke in the way of Religion O that this might be the varnish of every ones Religion the more you professe the Gospell labour to bee the more exact and just in your walking expressing a Gospell conversation It is a great scandall to the Gospell when every good man is not a good husband to his wife and every good woman is not a good wife to her husband nor every good man when he is called to it is not a good governour nor every good Christian in his place is not a good servant why there are graces fit for every condition there are conjugall graces a spirit of government a ministeriall spirit now I heartily commend this to you as you would commend Religion and winne reputation to it throw all stumbling blocks out of the good way expreâ—sing such a gracious carriage as your relation and condition requires In Col. 3. 12 13. see what a chaine of graces there the Apostle linkes together Put on as the elect of God bowels of merciâ—s It were an excellent thing for al good Christians to have a mercifull disposition Oh pity poore wounded men pitie poore blind soules pitie those that go astray And as you should have bowels of mercy so kindnesse have not onely a meere pitie of them but also do kindnesse to them And withall put on humblenesse of mind towards them It may bee if you are able to doe them good and kindnesse you will proudly insult over them therefore put on humblenesse of mind and if you bee kind to them and they injurious to you adde meeknesse to it and what if they bee very injurious put on long-suffering here is Christianity in that you will have bowels of mercy and kindnes and though you be able to be kind you will not bee proud of it and if they bee not so thankefull as they should yet you will bee meeke and if they goe on to adde injury to injury you will bee long-suffering And I pray forget not the rest and forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrell against any even as Christ forgave you you will say you will forbeare at least for a time but though you forgive you will not forget but you will watch an opportunity to revenge Oh but you must both forbeare and forgive one another thus to represent Religion that it may bee knowne In such an house there dwels such a people they are famous for Religion and blessed bee God not onely religious but just and mercifull and meek and not rash and censorious and precipitant and the like doubtlesse
the Lord knows we are not purged what if God should throw England off and give us up to Popery and Slavery and leave us as a prey to blood-thirsty men What if God should cause his fury to rest upon us O still wee should justifie him in these sad tokens of his displeasure for we have peremptorily out of proud rebellious selfwill denied to submit to God to stoop to him to come into the good way when he hath called us This City hath been an Arke to this poor Kingdome and many of his faithfull Servants have been sheltred in this Arke You have sent out it 's true your Doves you have sent out Regiment after Regiment and one Messenger after another and though God hath brought them back againe with Songs of preservation and victory and deliverance yet they have not brought an Olive branch of peace yet we cannot heare that welcome newes Me thinks we may take up the sad complaint in Psal. 74. 9. We know not how long there is no Prophet amongst us that can tel us how long It would pose all the Prophets in England to tell you when these unnaturall sparkes shall bee quenched and when God will call backe the Commission hee hath given to this Sword to doe that execution in severall parts still there are abroad Nimrods Sons of violence that drive apace even after Hannibals cruelty That when he saw a pit filled with mans blood he cryed O formosum spectaculum O beautifull sight The Lord if it be his will put a check on those that are so barbarously cruell yet howsoever the malice and the fury of men may bee let out we must still justifie God in all this and let us begin at home and let you and I now lay our hands on our hearts in particular O my self-will my rebellion against my God and my checking the motions of his Spirit and my slighting Gods gracious offers I have gathered some sticks to kindle this fire That fire that is in the North and that fire that is in the West and that fire that hath been in severall parts of the Kingdome and there 's not a man nor woman here present but hath given in some fuell to those fires by their self-will O now let us abase humble our selves and honour our God in justifying him and let us accept of the punishment of our iniquities that the Lord may remember his Covenant and remember the Land It is tree the Lord hath been pleased to shew various dispensations towards us heâ— hath been calling upon us wooing and soliciting England to come into this good way Sometimes he hath given us Physicke many potions we have had a great deale of strong Physick he hath made us sicke at heart many great shakings there have been he hath not only given us strong potions but he hath likewise let us blood and he hath opened many veiâ—â—â— we have lost Noble blood and precious blood a great deale of blood of the Gentry and a great deale of precious City blood too and a great deâ—â— of blood in the Country Yea and as God hath given us potions and strong Physick and let us blood so he hath given us Cordials we have had good successe witnesse our solemn dayes of Thankesgiving God hath visibly owned his cause in time of need and though wee bee not ripe for mercy God will not suffer us to be ruined he giveth such and such Victorier that shall at least be preservations of us O let us take heed that we provoke not our God to withdraw his loving kindnesse from us and if he let ouâ— more blood that City and Country both should swim in blood let us rather stir up ourselves and one another That we may get into such aâ— Humiliation into such a Reforming posture this day for our particulars and beg the like mercy for all the Congregations in England that wee may find God turning his gracious hand on us and making good that place of Scripture to us Isa. 1. 25. I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge all thy drosse and take away all thy tinne and will restore thy Judges â—â—â— the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning afterwards thou shalt be called the Citie of righteousnes the faithfull Citie Sion shall bee redeemed with judgement and her converts with righteousnesse Were not this worth rivers of teares worth many more dayes of humiliation and seeking of our God That the Lord would be merciful to the Countrey and mercifull to ouâ— Armies and mercifull to our Counsellors and mercifull to this City that the Lord would grant us to bee so purged that it might bee an evidence to us that we should be redeemed that this City of London mighâ— become a City of righteousnesse a faithfull City that being a righteous City and a faithfull City it might bee a City of Peace both within her selfe and towards all others that seek it of her that shee may be alwayes a terrour to the Churches enemies and their adherents but a friend and support to all those that love the truth as the truth is in Jesus And to this I hope you will all say Amen FINIS Many mists of new opinions which much puzzle Travellers Ezek 33. 7. Matth. 5. 14 Joh. 5. 35. Psal. 119. 105. Ezâ—a 8. 21. Zach 3. 1. See Mr. Wellâ— Preface to a short Story of the rise and reigne and ruine of the Antinomians Familists and Libertines which infected New-England p. 4. Isa. 9. 6. Zach. 3. 2. Sâ—ulâ—et Annal. p. 384. 474. Post tenebras lux Deus noster pugnat pronâ—â—is Zach. 2. 5. Three generall parts 1. 2. 3. First generall part 1. Eâ—â—k 36. 2. Eccles. 2. 14 Luke 1â— 4 3. Second generall part Jâ—vereâ—unde respondenâ— Sanct. Vide quo Divina provehatuâ— Clementia Sanct. Third generall paâ—t Peccata quoâ—um isti peâ—aguntur rei senâ—enâ—â—â—m meam lun Jeâ— 2. 12. Jer. â— 1â— Voluâ—… sert a nobis vâ—l de nobâ—s 1 Observat. Quest Answ 1. Stand in your owne wayes Stand in your Fore fatheâ—s wayes Inâ—etâ—ogaâ—dum de semins antiquis â—ive sempiternis quae multoâ—um sanctoâ—um tritae sunt vestigiis Hieron. Iâ—m 2. 23. Hâ—sea 12. 4. Numb 14. 24. Acts 13. 22. Stand in the Lords wayes discovered by his Prophets Standum in Prophetis diligentissime contemplandum Hieron. Multae quidem vâ—ae sunt sancti Prophetae via auâ—em veâ—e bona est Dominus noster Vâ—ae plures sunt plura Dei mandata {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Pervias patriarchaâ—um prophetarum tendendum ad unam evangelii viam Hieron. 1 Reas. 1 There are many by-waies Psal. 12â— â— Breerwards enquiry Cap. 14. Rev. 17. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 5. Matth. 13. 3 Reas. 2. â— There are many false guides 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} praeter sanam Evangelii doctrinam Pisc. 1 Tim. 4. 1. Verse 2. As Eph. 4. 14 3.