MINggrwma posenozaa.....1momms.p.temcpeagf comfortable walking with God. 35t iafler to his chaire of peflilence. Woeunto himbyWhom fuch offence doth come ; except by a remarkeable repentance and recovery, after bleired Davids example, he re-eflablifh himfelfe in the hearts of Gods people, and flop the =tithes of the adverfaries, whoare equally guilty of impenitency, as of farre, perhaps, 'grofferimpieties. eAtsflin doth excel- lently expreffe, and the life, thewilineffe of the wicked, and humour of the world upon filch unhappy occafions. There was, as it feemes, fome fuch fcandalous accident be- fell in his family. Whereupon hee writes an Epifile to the Minifters, Seniours, and whole City of Hippo ; and heartily intreates them all, a that themfelves wouldnot therefore either a EPO:t 37Hotta. faint in that Chriflian cowrie , and holy progion ; or .fall twit foule withflicions and cenfures upon all, for the faults of a ve ob paucorum e c pefiradc: few : for there is nofociety fohappy, which is not flamed withfile liai'nta'v1 t:1: fe'ne vi.fany. Although, faith he, difcipline be ex,rcifed in my ve16,1 roTnaitbns familywith a watchful/ eye, yet Iam a man, and live amongfi deaciaransP1 men; and therefore cannot prefitme that mine hosife fhould bee reettatemmTicen: better then the Arkeof Noah; then the houfi. of Abrabam;then non Aquo.171 the honfi. of Ifaac;then thehoufe of Iacob;tberr theboufe of Da- tr,iuummeen,:titeuriatn. vid, &c. In all which,jome were naught ; nay, then the family ri..bet vigilct chfcim of lefits Chrift, in which tbere was atraitosr and a theifi. Lafl plena domus mea I , then Heaven itfelfi , fromwhich the Angelsfill. But that ter homilies vivo which I would principally have you take notice of in that ::cd:11?trrfor: Epifile, and for which I fpecially mention it, is Auflinc em; mea melior fit phaticall, elegant, andefftatiall expreffing the eager, itching, Vmtl'etal Nite ambitious humour of the wicked, to father and faften the oao homines probus unus faults of fome upon the whole generationof the j a_inx. llant, venrus eftiaut me. faith he, fatagunt, ambient; I cannot expreffe their full fig- mlinV: (1,17i nificancy in Englifh but part of his meaning is ; They every dlaum eft, hjice way, and infinitely labour, that whenCome profeffors of ho- An, s t melior au lineffe have foulely fame indeed,or be onely fo flaudered, the fir ifaac, cur de duo= bus geminis diftum eft, Iacob dilexi, Elan autem odic, babui aut melior fir quim domus ipfius Ia- cob, vbi le.uum patris filim inceftavit ant melior fit quam domus ipfim David, cujus fibus cum to. toreconcubuit, cujus alter filius contra patris tam fauftam mail ructudincrn rcbellavit, &c. ant melior qu am cohabitatio ipfius Domini Chrifti , in qui undecirn Boni, erfidum & Farm Tod -41.1 tolerav6- runt : aut melior fit pofiremO, quim ccelum, uncle Angell cecid'erunt, Cam de aliipilbuv qui-fandurn nomenprofitentur, aliquid criminis,velfalfitatisfonucrit vet yeti patucrit a inftant,fatagu'nt,ambiunti VC de omnibushoe ctedatut. World
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