!HE EPISTLE Either, leave to adliere to David, or refolve to ·lofe a Kingdome. But the hope of .an earthly Crowne,could-not }).ire Him to hbld His peace, and betray the innocencie of His heavenly Friend : J nd l.IJnathan a~(wered Saul his Fa· ther, and .faidunto Him, Wherefore [La!! Hee bee Jlaine-: what hath He done -: The-dread of diG countenance from two angrie Kings, whofe indignation is as the roaring of aLion, was a terrible Motive, to have made Michajah temporize: (not a Server of the Times, and His owne turne in theWorld, but would in this Cafe have tuned His Pipe to ut habs plea~ fure; .efpedall)'_encouraged · by the flatteriAg -concurrence of [o many falfe Prophets). But the fight o( the mightie Lord of Heaven and Earth .fitting upon Hi~ Throne, and a!lthe Host of Heaven ftanding kY Him , infufed fuch ~m holy fortitude into the fpirit of this Man of · G o D ; that no greatneffe, terrour, or Majeftie of any Crowned Potentate, could poffihly . damlt 'His courage, or dafh Him out of countenance: 'And therefore He anfivers with a refolution, as high as Heaven, and out of a facred pung of feraphicall zeale : LA s the Lord ,li· 'Veth, wha~(oever the Lord faith unto mee, that will I .ffieake. So that Hee may difcharge a gon 'onfcience, and doe as·God would have Him, .He-is at a P0int. That Mefh1ge, which the Almighty had, put into His mouth, mu'fl: f01th; Th0Hgh it ~xpofe Him toa ,cenf'ure of fing~larity; fop diffencingJrom fo many of His owne
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=