The Prefoee. 21.. 011t 1/ thela11d Df Egypt. THis Egypt was a Countreyfubiect to much Idolatrie · and fuperflition, .and therefore exceedingdangeroui · to..dwell in,Ezek.zo.7,8. In.which refpetl, Rome is compare.d vnto it,as to Sodomfor filthinefie,Apoc. t 1.8.H:encewe DD6lr. learne, that it is agreat fauou"r ofGod, tobe deliuercsd from A mercieof c Th h h h d . d h God t:o be Idolatrous places. oug t ey a · etuoye t ere as great freed from ·commodities for their bodies, as they were preffed with ~welling in . b d h . fc b tdolatrous burdens and on · age, yet t 1s were a pre ermenr,.to ee places. - drawne out offuchperill for thcirfoules. /r;fouA 24·~·3·rec-- kons it among· the principall and memorable mercies_of. God to eAhrabam,.that hee brought hinl·OUt-ofVrofche, Chaldeans,where.his anceflors ferued ftrange Gods..: yet it· was aCount-reyY~ry fert-iU&delightfuU,wherein hiskinred and acquaintance dwelc,and his owne natiue foile,wherein, he had been borne andbred. For they that conuerfe and abide in fuch places) are in danger to be corrupted with that . pefHient contagion.Apoc.t8.4.As the Ifi·aeliteshadbeen,as . appeareth.by the golden Cal.fe,which theywere fo readie to make h1 the wilderneffe: or elfe they mufl daily vexe their owne foules, and b-ee vexed by others, as Lot was for their corporall vncleannelfe inSedome~· . And therefore iuflcau<e hatte we-to m~gnifie thename ofYfe. r. our graciousGod, who bathfreed v-s from as great'a peril!. with leffe difficultieand more eafe. We are tranflated out-of Egypt andBabeJ,yet without trauaile or iourney. Our places are fwept from .that vncleannes at ho.me,and Ierufalem·. is come tobe ficuate inour land amongll vs. . · This alfo_ferues~muchfor the·reproofe ~fthem that only.. Pfii.· 1 .._. · · looke to thetr bodtesan<l prefenteflate, _vvithou-t any regard to their foules: and.therefore whitherfoeuer their commodities leade them,there they plant themfelues. Be the towns . or familt~s neuerfo fupedlitious·~ that is not refpe&ed: fo .that gaine and honour may arife to-thctn frOJn.thence,there, they _will dwdl,-~nd there·therwill mttch their·children 2-' · .But A~rahAm,Gen.24,a. was mofl carefull toauoide this,as - appeareth byhis charge tohis feruant)BewAre thou!Jrittg.nDI.: mJfanne h11ck! to the Cr;lltJtrtj,frern .wbenc-4:1clime..~ . ' ' That.\
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