mankind impatiently desire that the divine being would display himself to his creatures,

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

as he saith himself in Osee, "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her, beloved, which was not beloved.

Now it is by virtue of my apostolical commission, that I charge every man among you, not to entertain too high an opinion of himself; but modestly consider, that 'tis God who has dealt to every man his proportion of spiritual gifts.

Since then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God;

keep the persuasion you have, to your own conscience. blessed is he that approves himself to God, without making any difference about meats: