8o A Commentàry ups theGe(J'el Chap".q. ,EIOlo a troubler of Ifrael, Paul a pelt, Luther, tuba rebel! o i'Q'Yd"W q1. xis, the Trumpet ofrebellion, &c. luvenies apud Taciturn Pe- TO' TLV í,01(4ÓV. A quentatas accurtioaes Majesíatis : unicum crimen eorum qxi crimine vacabant , faith Lipfism. There was force colour of right, yea ofpiety laid upon the French maffacre, and by edit s, a fair cloak fought, to cover the impious fraud, as if there had been Come wicked confpiracy plotted by the Proteftants againft the of Na- Cana. Elitab. King, tre,an t aPrinces of the the bou Kings For there was coyn ltamp- f°i' `63' ed in memory of the matter, in the fore-part whereof, ( together with the Kings piaure) was this infcription , Virtus in rebelles. Andon the other fide, Pietas exciravit juf itiam. Not many years before this, Francis King ofFrance, when hewould excule to the Princes of germany (whofe friendfhip he then fought af- ter) that cruelty he had exercifed againft the Proteftants, he gave out that he punifhedAnabaptiffs only , that bragged of Enthufi- afines, and cried down Magiftracy, ftirring up the people to (edi- tion, as they had done, not long before in germany. This foul sre,her, Anz at. afperfion caft upon true Religion, gave occafion to Calvin (then vat. z ßl454. a young manof 25. years ofage) ro fet forth that incomparable work, called his inftitutions of Chriftian Religion, Concerning which, Paulus Melt ff'ur long fince fang, Prxter Apoflolicas pof? Chrif?i tempora chartas, Hesicpeperere librofacula nullaparem. Since Chrilts and the Apoftles time no filch book bath been written. He departed into Galilee] Succenturiatua prodit Ioanni, faith a learned Interpreter. He therefore went into Galilee ( which was under Herod: government) to be, as it were, a fupply and fucceflour to John, whom Herodhad imprifoned. How well might the tyrant fay acheChurch, as thofe Perfiani °did'òf the eÁthenians, >.otw.v i oo7dei zTprjaw!.tP, úgo,ßiop7w. e ouer- 'De A;1enienf turn them, andyet theyfall not ; we mound them, and yet they but Pc7fx car po fear not. St Bafil bad the perfecuted Chriftians tell the tyrants ¿il,,nirhonio ti;ól sro with a xld andbrave fpirir, EdV ç ?xhv H7 rTiraq i,apud Ifyeprevail again, yet (rely. ye ¡hall be overcome ag'tin Fòr 13 f,1 Enar, in there is neither power nor policy againft the Lard. Charles the fa,Bc. ubi fifth ( then whom all Chriftendome had not a more prudent b:e4 verbs i:à Prince nor the Church of Chrift (almoft) a forer enemy) whén ver:un,ar jrax- he had in hishand Luther dead, and Melant:than and PdiritYA, ra ' X" and
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