fe/fe..inricbing ex4mination. · 2,:11 They may_, I confe1fe fometimes be faint·hearced and retire upon weakneffe and infin.nitie,asdidPe- . ter, and other SainOof God, ·but after theycome . , to themfelves, and have taken breath, they rettlrne into the field and fight, with redoubled courage, more rager heat, and refolute valour, to make .amends for fuch default and defeltion ; they~re . conteBt t-o undertake any e~traordinary ~dventure, to fight in bk>ud t-o the knees, with anholy de(~era-renelfe, (a5 prodigall of thofe lives they ·have:f1aincd with revoit) to fiie more tiercely in the faces of ·the.adverfaric.5 ofGod, and enemies . oftheirfoules. Saint Peter upon infirmity (a fearefnll fall) deni- i ed hi! Saviour, but howmanfullyafrer, and vict<>- . rioLlily did bee ente,r the Jifrs again{} the whole kiogdomeofdarkaetfeJand aworldofP-aga1;1if me? . whatworthy ~icedidhe after in the Church of God, and how gloriouflyat lafr did he feale the tn1thw,hich hehad taught, with the.facrifjce ofhis blond ? Bletfed Cr"4nmer, that glorious Martyr, ( fllinke backe ali~de, andupon infionity) beingen- .chanted by P.opifh Syrens :~ fublCribed to fome points of their ·hat-e-filii herefies: But with what . paQgS·Ofzeale and penetencywashee after reven– . ged upon himfelfe, by thrnfl:ing that unllappy hand 6dtintotheflame, wich wastheinfrrament · ofhis fou1e rdap{-e?ThusthougqGodschildemay - fometimes frurnble, and take a fall in his race of Chrictianity,yet whenhe is got alp againehe Qlakes . amends with a ·m0Pe five footing , a:nd fwifter · courfe toward the Goale ofimmortality. Let us Q4 - Jooke
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