C :.t s AR his due. > hadoftheother. J<Ji,e C.efaris, audibly and with full voice; qu.e Vei drowned and fcarce heard. And it is not in this alone, but in many o. thers: We cannot raife the price ofone vertue, but we mufi cry downe all therdl. Not canonizePreaclJil(g,but Prayermull grow out ofrequefr. _Not pofsible, to bring up Almes and ~orkes ofMercy, but Offerings and '»Jorkes of 1)evotion muf!: be laiddown~. But by fale 0f CH R 1 s T s oi!Jtment, no way to provide tor the.poore. Senfibli!< im others; arid thts • / too dull. G oo is not entire (thinkes the Gaulonite) unl~!fe (.tfar5 iniage and . fuperfcription be blotted out. CJ!jar hath hOt enough, till G o o have nothing left, thinkes the Herodi1m; CH R I S T S Courfe is the befi; to hold the meane betweene both : .Either to be prelerved in his right. Not to looke fo much on one, as we lofe fight of the other. Not to give fo good an ,eare to on!;, as we car~ nptthough the other be never fpoken of. Go o bath coupled them here: and fince Go o bath coupled them,let notmanfe'Ver them. ToC,ejar,and to G o o : Not to C,e[ar onely, but toCJ!jar and Go o. And againe, not ....~ to G o o onely ; but to Go o and C.efar. ·J , . . C.efar and Go o then, will fl:and together : Defcend yet one degree further, we'mayputtheCafeharder yet. For, I demand, Wf,at (!£jar was this, for whofe interefi CHR 1sT herepleadeth 1 .To quicken this point fomewhat more : It is cerraine, it was Tibetius, even he· under whom our SA v 1 o u R was (and knewHe was to be) put to death ~ A Stranger from I(rael : A heathen man, uncircumcifed, an idolater, and enemy to theTruth. So were Augu.flus and the reil, youwill fay.: But even in morall goodne!fe, henothing[o good as they. TheRom~n fio. ries are in every mans hand : Men know, he was far from a good Prtsce, or good man either, as good went even among the Heathen. Yet even thisC£{ar,andfuchashe; any(,efarwillfiandwith Goo, and Goo with them, for all that. · Not only, to (.efar; but to this, and fuch as this, rJVddite(faith (brijl) -·. -· Soll>ite (faithPaul) SubjeEli eftote (faithPeter) for all that: So was the old Rom. 13· 7i Divinity• Though an evillfpirit Jent from G 0 D r-oexe Saul, yet (faith : ;:~~~~;~ Val>id) deflroy not, it is his word; Nay, Toucl1 not the Lords .Anointed: 'Chro.t6.z~ Though N_ebuchadne:<:,z.ar fer up a great !doll in the field Dura, and qJaltba:<:,ar his fonne rather worfe, than his father; yet, Pray for Nebucbad- Dan.~:r; nez.z.ar faith Ieret~zie ; and for ~a!tlJa;;:ar his fonne, and forthe peace even ~a~1.'r.n; ofthat State. From thefe examples, might lltdMof Galilee have taken his directions. CH R 1 s T did; and His Apo.flles after Him, willedduties to be paid and obedience to be yeelded, and yeelded it themfelves, to fuch (£jars as (laudius, (aligttla and Nero; Dyfcoli; Dominis (asS. Peters terme is) if evenhere were any. Which fheweth, they were all ofminde, xPet.2.rs; that (.efar (though no betterthan rhefe) and GODwill fund together . wellenough. Yea, that though (~far gave not bOD Hisdue, as Hhhh h 4 .thefe
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