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tufted, fo untrue ; and may we not take up the Wifemans Ob, O wicked prefismption, whence art thom 5 1
Sermon 6, of the GowRLES.
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coos) Stay a little; and lookupon them,as ye wouldupon a couple of Monfters..:.1 To feck this, 12
+ Regem alone, were too much = co break their.duty to their Lege Lord, if there were no more. but .
that :-to, day their’ bards o# bins, for whom they thould lay dowa their lives: 2 Add then: not toa
King only, but to fuch a King, nor to their Leige Lord alone, but to fo good ;and. gracious. Lord, , .
-that had done them fo great favours, placing them fo near him, tru(ting them fo far,honouring them y sii
fogreatly. ° (For, no honour, to tru(t; nocrufl, tothe chief trutt, of all.) More than heathenith
iwickednefs this, to render evil for good: and whofe wealth they of all otherbound to feek, to feck
his ruine.’ 3 And they came’not to that place, but they were fworn : to vilifie their Oarh. then;: and
-to tear in pieces the ftrongeft band of ‘Religion. The hands that had taken that Oath,thofe hands to
Jay on him 14 To betray their cruft to him, that had laid his innocent life in their hands,and to nake
their cru(t, the opportunity of their treachery! 5In a word: of the chizf Keepers of his body, to ..
become the chief feek:rs of his ‘bleod, the chief enemies of his body, and dife and all! What ©
-can be faid evilenough of thefe ? Say it were lawful inany cafe (itis not lawful inany; but Tay ic
weére:) to lay hands ona King: yecthey (in allreafon ) of all others, (hould not have been the
-doets +: Es/i slle’ dighses perpeti, at non tu qui facerestanen, WWerenot thefe ALonfters then? was not
cheir condemnation juft ? Ic grieves me, Ihave ftayed fo long on them; yet if 1 have made them :
cand their Fact odious, ic grieves me not, 0 ed oe net oo
omen
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>=! > What was the matter ? what could move them, thus to play the wretches ?, Why they; fhould 3?
not, many and good reafons we fee.’ Why they did, none in the Text,butthacthey were axgry:and The caufe
thacis no reafon, buta paffior, that makes men go clean again(t yeafon many times. Bigthan was as wherefore.
gryjand Thares as angry ashe. , re ery were a
» Yer, if irbe buta little azger, ic will over. Indeed (fuch it may be ) ic wil-What manner az- ~
ger wasit ? The wordisa fhrewd word; fignifies an ager, will xot go down with the Sun, will not
be appeafed.’ What {peak we of the word ? theirdeeds {hewasmuch. We fee, nothing would. fa-
tisfie them, but his life: Nothing ferve,’ bur Jay hands on him. Thac, they foughr ; fo angry Bphel. 4. 26%
theywere. Sn as Can bee 6 un
te 7 What angted them then? No caufe is fet down. And, none Ithinkthere was.If there had, |
we fhould have been fure to haveheardof ic. Formen,tobe azgry withouta caufe,andever with ..
Superiours itis no newthing, |, - ey ee SNe bergen . ~
ex Welk: if no casfe,fome ‘colour yet: if notthat, fome fhadow at leaft, Somewhat we: are
“to feek; why they did feeg this. OO oe pe ly se etd
~ s Lre cI there be in the Text any thing to lead us to it, icisin the firft words, or not at all: J thofe
Aayes. In thofe, angry they were ?* as much to fay, as before rhofe dayes, they were not ; but, i. thofe,
then they were. ‘-Elfe, there is no caufe to mention thar, of ‘the dayes, butto make this difference -
Out of the Text, nothing canbe pickedelfe.. ey .
<0 Why what :dayes. were thofe? Thatgoes immediatly before: The dayes wherein Affwerrs had Angrys for 4/-
made choice of Effher,to match with her, and make her his Queen 3. and had made a great Feaftup- fucrus choice
‘on ite: Atthe Feaft (itfeems) they furfeited, they could not brook that match, atany hand:Some ° 44°"
ambiti us defire of theirs difappointed by ic; likely, hit was the caufe, This was fain to ferve for the
voceafion, for lack of abetter:\e4 bed one (we fay ) isbetter thas none 0. ho ce ye
~ soqiuWhar, the’great King of Perfia find no ma:ch in all bis own brave Nation? Never a PerGan
Ledy ferve him, but he muftto this vile bafe people ‘(the Fewes) his captives and flaves, to pick
him a match thence ?: What a difparagementis this, to all the Perfias blood !; Ic would make any
true-Perfian' heart, rifeagainftit,, 8 ~ 9 ak
{.cio"Nay then atrer
a nc nn eee
pe deat iy spy oh Ovcebop yet jap ced a2 ate st
a worfe matter: ( now, ye fhall (ee them grow godly on afuddén, and ‘wax very zea-
lous, as the fafhion is. )” ‘Nay then, we fhall have a. Qecea of a “contrary ‘R gligion, we fhall now be
call ewes. One that cares, neither for Mithra ‘not Uromafdes ; One by all likely-hoed brought in,
to'be the utter ruine of ‘the Aacient Religion establifhed in Per fia, yer the came there,: 13.3 =.
This wasic ( they tellus-)--and like enough fo to be: As (ever ) ye thall oblerve marriages
setters are made ‘occafions oft, to ferve to many purpoles. | For, Affwerus may not.marry, but
swhere Bigthan‘and Tharex appoint, ** Elfe, they will be ‘wrath, and fall on. fecking.. If, any be in
the Text, this wast...’ And was nocthis ( trow you’) a gdodly occafion, and a fubftantial ; to. make
them quit their Allegiance, forget their Oath, caft’ béhind them all his Favours, .bectay their. Trutt;
Truth and all ; lofe all thefe ? For,all thefe mult they lofes beforé they cluld feck. that they fought.’
‘vse But,why found they it not ? Icwas not fo’eafie for them to find ac firft, by reifon that, for-any to
come there,in the Kings prefence, witha weapon, nay but having his hands out robe feen, noc having
them hid, held clofe under their garments, it wasdeath': (yrs putto death two of his Kin, for ic.
That fo, they might well feek : and fo I leave them feeking that, I pray 0 God they may never find.
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‘Bur che true caute was, God was ‘angry with’ this anger of theits, that their fecking Succeeded nos.
ego alk ove Wad We SETS Seb ga the Va ee Se ~~ . ye .
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vi ie ee As wioalighsiae
cya And noware we come to the Cataffrophe, or turning about of ‘all: For by this time innotuie.re i
Atardocheo, Mardochai came tothe knowledge of it : forthic came,” Nay, if itcome forth the King His ds#veiy.
fhali do wellénough: To difcover the Treafox, is to deliver the Kings, ae A I,
coo icThis was by ALardgchai « what was he ?- No Perfiaa (to begin’ With’) ‘but'a Granger by Birth, The mar of ix
and by Religion 3 and a Captive, befides : One that had better reafonto have foughtit,than they. He By notice given
. ’ had
2.By Hardochai
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