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Show ( ·~4 ) on t be M en of Sam· aria ' be faid, Yce .1k. now not co f h S . . t are 1\:ow you 1atmg to 111e 'v at pm re . ' . l . I ld h c M s or being norm chat w 11C 1 wou t cte ean , ' h. h teach you how to ufe thefe Means, w IC ye fhould have ufed ; ye betake your felves to other Means that you fhould n?t have ufed ; the ufing of which cannot Convwce rhe Heart d Confcience of Man, nor Infiruct the Igno-an b1.1 • rant, nor 11g to rhe Kn.o wledge of the Truth thofe that Oppofe the Truth, n~r. 0 ver~ome Principaliries, and Powers, and Spmtua! !'Vzcked: nefs in high pl,zces: Nor fubdue rbe Sptnt (rho ·r may bring under the Body) and through ~ear of him chat can Kili the Body, Blafpheme him who can KilJ both Soul and Body, and caft both into Helt-fire (which was nor the. Ca~e of rhefe, for they feared nor you who dtd ~til the Body, and could go no funher; bur h.m1 who can Kill both Soul and Body, ~nd caf m:o Helljirr him they feared ; And San8ified ht'fn '~ their H;arts, and made him their Fea~ an~ thezr Dread ; and he kept them ?JJho trufled. m hzm, becaz1[ e they trujlcd in him, ?JJho nev_er Ja1led them who put theJr Truft in him ; and delzvered them, .. and they have obtained a good Report, and have JiniflJUl their Courfe with 1oy ( thofe whom ye have put ro Death ) a~d kept the Faith, and hencefo~rb i4 laid up fer them a Cro?vn ~f Rig~teoufte[s, wh1~h the Lord, the Righteous Judge, w1/J gtve them m thtzt Day, and not only u·mo them~ bu.t to all ~hofe 'JJJho lo'Ve the Lort11eftn Chrift and hu .Apfearzng.) Thefe Means failing, you betake your klves ro otl er Means which the World uferh (ro thew rhar you ar; of this World) which reacheth not rhe Spirit, bur the Body ; a :~d becaufe they can nor reach the Spirit, they Kill rhe BodY ; whenas the Spirit it is tha[ Offers up the Bo~ , dy, ( J 55 ) dy, nnJ prefents it a Li'Ving Sac,.ijice, Holy, Acuptable to God; which is irs reafonabl~ Service ; and by which they offered up their Bodies on the Po inc (which ye offtred unro rhc m) and on the Tree Triumphed ovt:r ye all; and fhewed, rhat Greater 1vm he t~at 7JJtU in them, than he that i4 of this Worlrl; and that th y could (Dye] to do the Will of God : And char norhing could {eparate 'them, no, not Death it (elf, from the Lo'Ve of God, which i5 Chrif! Jejus. And fo rhis Means vf Cruelty (viz.,.) Death it felf, ha£h failed you, in thinking thereby tO Ov rcome rhe Sainrs of the Moft High God, or fO keep them from the doing of his \IVill. · Fourthly, The Point ye olfered them was wirh · OU[ Ground in Law, or that rhe Law allows ye ro put. For., as I have faid, Valuable Confiderations muft precede, and fuch as will weigh down th;It of raking away of a Man's Lite, Nhich the Law tfieems a mo r precious Thing. Now, here is no fuch produced by you; the utmoft is, that they are fuch as are called fl.!_takers (who are proved to be anmher manner of People in this Nation) and whom you have not Convitlcd of one Principle or P1aClice rha£ js contrary to Godlim{s; onely the Hac ye fiumbled at (which is rheir Reafonable Apparel) and by the Hn ye judged rl em w be fuch, and put them ro Dearh. And £his was rhe Point which ye off ·red, and in this they came (in their Reafonable Apparel) in the Will of God upon your Point, and paHe ~ through ir. Now where Valuable Confiderarions are nor rh::.· Ground, neirher Law nor \eafon: For, it is lawful for any En~ti{lJ-man to refide, come .in'P or be in any of the Don in· ons appenain · ng to ~ngland and as Namral tor one as for ;:morber; K ~ And |