Chap.3. .tecardiitg to St M A T T H E V ir . 51 rage to be perfwaded, when better-reafon is alledged : as in Peter, 14m.3.17. first peretrrptory,but,after conviètion,pliabfe. An hum -. ble man will never bean heretick ; ihew him his errour,and hewill fòon tetrad it. yoannes Budenha 'iiru (a Reverend DutchDi- vine ) lightingupon Luthers book d.' captivitare Babylonica, and readingfonic few pages ofit, as he fate at fùßper," rafhly pronoun- ced him the 'aloft peftilent and pernicious heretàck, that ever the Church had been troubled with, fince the times of Chrift. Bu-, a few daies after, havirg lerioufly read over the book, and well .weighed the bufincfre,he returned tohis Collogioners, and recanted what he had laid antbngft them ; affirming and proving, that Sasetet. ,Qenat. Luther only was in the light, and all the world betides in grolle darkneff. , fo that many of them were converted by him to the truth. Ioanner Denckisu (a learned Bavarian ) held this heretic, That no man or Devil fhould be damned e- ternally, becaufe God willeth that all fnould be faved ; and Chr ft faith, 7hrre Jha1l to one ¡hepherd, and one lheep-fild. lbile'a, But, being an humble minded man, he, was convinced and con- verted by Occolampaditu, and died cf the plague ( but pioufly ) at Bafle, Anno 1528. Of S3venckildim the heretick, be- Nondefuige caufe hepraid ardently, and lived unblameably, Bucholcerut the Swencktct'I1 Chronologer waswort tofay,that his heart was good,huchis head ccr booun, je.1 not well regulated. But how that could be, l fee not, to long as he capa;routs lived and died in his deteftable opinions, and would .not fbr. o them. If thelcprofie weregotten into the head, the Pcieft was to pronounce fuch utterly unclean, Levir.13 44. And the Prophet proncunceth Lis foul, that is lifted up with pride andpertinacy,noe to be upright in him. fiaimk.7.4, Verle 16. Axel lefe s when he Iv& haptifcd.] Many of the An- cients held, that the day ofEpiphany, was the day of our Saviours baptifme. But that, I think,is but a conjure. Th Habaflines, a kinde of mongrell hriftpans in A/ i.yue, baptife themfelvesevery year on that day in likes or ponds ; thereby to keep a tnemoriall BeP.. rm,3 ofcur Savioursbaptiitne in Iorc n.This is (as Tindall was wont E,,,,,_,, aas to fay of a like matter) to pafle by the prcvifîon, and lick the fignè-poft. Went Yp ifraightway out of the water J And flood union the ihore,apattfrcm the company, that all might fee and hear what, Luk ;.ii, was now to be done. St Luke addeth, that he fell there upon his knees and.prayed; thereby teaching us, withwhat deep devotion, E 2 WC
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