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1xi(aq <roi, to be kind and favourable to ourselves in 

 our interpretations and censures ; but God, me- 

 thinks, at present seems to accuse us all. 



When a judgment is particular and reacheth 

 but a few, v^e have a savage promptness in con- 

 demning the sufferers, with, This is God's just 

 judgment for such a thing, which we, it seems, 

 like not, though perhaps God himself doth. So 

 long as the thunderbolt flies over our own heads, 

 we hug ourselves, and all is well ; it is our dear 

 pastime, and a high voluptuousness to sit and 

 censure others, and flatter ourselves that we are 

 more righteous than they. To meet with this 

 ill-humour, God hath reached us now an universal 

 stroke that comes home to every man: so that it 

 is as our Prophet states it, in the beginning of this 

 sermon, *As with the Prince and the Priest, (for 

 ]nD is both) so with the People; as with the 

 Master and the Mistress, so with the Servant; as 

 with the Buyer, and the Borrower, so with thei 

 Seller and the Lender. In fine, he is no Englishman 

 that feels not this blow : and, therefore, as the 

 judgment is universal, let us give glory to God, 

 and confess, that the sin is so too; saying with the 

 good Nehemiah, fThou art just, O God, in all 

 that is brought upon us; on our King, and on our 

 Princes ; on our Priests, and on our Prophets ; on 

 our Fathers, and on all thy people ; for thou hast 

 done right, but we have all done wickedly. God 

 give us grace to taj^e every one the shame that 



* Chap. xxiv. 2. t Chap. ix. 32, 33. 



