The good Names of Gods people, though now ob∣scured, yet hereafter will be cleared. [ 1328]
EVen as it was with Christ, the Iews rolled a great stone upon him,* 1.1 and as they thought, it was impossible he should rise again; but an Angel came and rolled away the stone, and he arose in a glorious triumphant manner: So it shall be with the People of God, their good Name oft lyes buried, a stone of ob••oquy and reproach is rolled upon them, but at the day of Judgment, not an Angell, but God himself will roll away the stone, and they shall come forth from among the pots, where they have been blacked and sullied,* 1.2 as the Wings of a Dove covered with Silver, and her feathers with yellow Gold; Now it is, that many of them are called the troublers of Israel, seditious, factious, Malignants, rebellious, and what not? But a day is shortly coming, when God himself will proclaim their innocency; For the Name of a Saint is pretious in Gods esteem, it is like a Statue of Gold, which the polluted breath of men cannot stain; and though the wicked may throw dust upon it, yet as God will wipe away tears from the eyes of his People, so he will wipe off the dust that lyes upon their good Names, And a happy day must that needs be, when God himself shall be the Saints compurgator.