1I0 Mar 9. c 4. s civrivmecot, Tacit. ;hÎn,ua. t C;or.6,7. A Commentary upoas the Gorjiel Chap.5 . fallout? that twolfraelites fhould be at ftrife amid the Egyp- tian ? that 7chns difciples fhould join withPharifees againft fus ? that Corinthians ( for their contentions ) thcaid he car- nalt, and walke as men ? that Lutherans and Calvini1 s fhould be at fuch deadly lewd ? Still Satan is thus bufie, and Chriftians are thus malicious, that, as if they wanted enemies, they flee inone anthers faces.There was no noife heard in letting up the Temple : InLebanon there was, but not in Sion : whatever tumults there are ab:oad, 'tis fit there fhould beall quietneffe and concord in the Church. Now therefore, although it be, for the moft part, a thankeleffe office ( with men) to interpofe, and feek to takeup Itrife, to peece again thofe that are gone afide, and afunder,and to found an Irenicum : yet do it for Godsfake, and thatye may (as ye (hall be after a while) called and counted ( not medlers and bufie-bodies,but)thefonsof God. Tell them that jarre and jan- gle ( upon miffakes for molt parr,or matters ofnogreat moment) that it is the gloryof a man to paffe by an infirmity, and that in there ignoble quarrels, every man fhould be a'aw to himfelf,as the 2hracians were : and not brother go to law with brother, becaufe he treads upon his graffe, or fomefuch poor bufinefíe, obi & vim sere inglorium eft, & alteri (rdidum. Now therefore there is utterly a fault amongftyou, becaufe ye go to law one with an- othcr,faith the Apotle. Not but that the courfe is lawful!, where the occafion is weighty, and the minde not vindiaive. But the' Apoftle difgraceth (in that text)revengeof injuries, by a word that fignifieth difgrace,or toffe ofvilíory : And a little before : I. oak to your fhame, faith he, Is it (3, that there is not a wifeman a- monggyeu ? no, not one that {hall be able to judge betweenhis brethren,and compromife thequarrel' ? Serviese Sulpitim ( that .heathen Lawyer) !hall rife up in judgement against us, quippe qui adfactlitatem, aquitatem. amnia contulit, neí conftituere litiumac`liones, quam controverfias tollere maluit, as Tully te- Itifieth. Concedamue de jure, faith one, ut care3mus lite : And, at habeas quietum tempos, perde illiquid. Lofe fomething fora -quiet life,was a common proverb, (as now amongft us) fo of old amcn; the Carthaginians, as St Au/in fheweth. It werehappy fùrely, ifnow, as ofold, the multitude of beleevers were i ,y,QJta, xai i lv ,fix, of one heart, and ofone foul. And, as in one very ancient Greek copy it is added, that there was not one controver- fieor contention found amongft them. For
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