comfortable sulking with God.. of him at counterfeits.: beeabfiaineth from our rays, as from . flthineffe, bee pronounceth . the end ofthe j4 to be blef- fed, and maktb his.bcaffs that God is his Father Such things they did imagine, and were deceived : for their owne wickednefè bath blinded them. As for the mil-feria of God, they know them nor, neither hoped they for the wa- ges of righteoufneffe : neither difcerned a reward for blameleffi joules. Ifit edge, and eneager malice, it breedes revenge, awol- vith, and unnatural! thirft after blood : which hauntsmoil, themoli weake, fearefull, and cowardly fpirits. For we ever fee thebafeft and molt worthlefie men, tobe molt malicious and revengeful'. Seldome doth it finde any harbour in a welbred, and a generous minde. As Thunders, Tempells, andother terrible agitations in theayre, trouble onely, and difquiet thefe weaker fraile bodies below, butnever difturbe or difmay thofe glorions heavenly Ones above: fo fcurrill girds, imperious doggednefe, difgraces, and wrongs, vexe, and diftemper menofbaler temper : but the nettling difpo- Union, caufeleffe fpite, and childith brawlings of hafly fooles, wound not great and noble fpirits. Now this boy ling andbitingdiftemper, though againft nature it feede upon blood : yet, fo true is the point I purfue, ( but would you thinke it ? ) is alto infatiable. Witneffe that Monfier ofMillaine, who, as a Bodin reperteth, when hees De eaó' had furprifed upon the fudden, one whom hee mortally hated, hee prefently overthrew him ; and Pettinghis dag- ger tohisbreaft,told him,he wouldcertainely havehisblood, except he would renounce, abjure, forfweare, and blafphetne the God ofheaven. Which when that fearefull man, too finfully greedy ofa miferable life, haddone ina molt horri- ble manner ; he immediatly difpatcht him, asToone as thofe prodigious blafphemies were out of his mouth : and in a bloody triumph infulting over his murthered adverfarie, as though whole hell bad dwelt in his heart ; hee' added this molt abhorred fpeech: Oh, faith hee, this° is right noble, and heroicail revenge ; which cloth not onely deprive the 3 .y 23r
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