keep its old wont. Be not dismayed, thus it dealt with your Master, your Saviour, your Head, your King, your Captain; thus with his Servants, Soldiers, Subjects, Members of former and later times.
Is not this a common thing among us? who have sewer friends than the godly? who are more distasted and disliked generally? Do not men look upon them usually as upon Strangers; yea, rather as upon Adversaries? they are coun∣ted signes and wonders. Oh that God would convince men of their dangerous Estate, who love not the Children of God, who like men the worse for fearing God, and walking in his ways, who like a Father, or Mother, an Hus∣band or Wi••e, a Child, or Servant, Neighbour, or Kinsman the worse, because he feareth the Lord; such persons are in a dangerous estate, they are in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.
Object. But thou wilt say perhaps, I do not hate the Children of God, I do not meddle not make with them.
Sol. Oh but this will not serve thy turn, if thou dost love them the less, delight in them the less because they are godly, it is enough to prove thee to be an enemy to them. If thou couldest love another better if he were not re∣ligious, or if he were not so religious, it is an ar∣gument thou art not a child of God. How