1 5o e liti no t&Apòcat :fe: P Langui- we are flippeddown; and we fhall wonder at the gaffe as deepe as 1liing hel whereinwe lye tumbling. Hence it is that he warneth,to bethink Ephsfus. himfelfwhence he bath fallen. Neither is it enough to know that we are fallen, but we muf plunge upas %one as ever we canout ofthis whirlepoole ofdeftruc`tióti byrepentance. He addeth therefore re- pent. But many deceive thenafelves, and think they have repented right well, when as in truth they have done nothing leffe : in the lift g lace therefore he requireth, that theformer Worts be done. For fo thou maycft make trial' whether thou haft repented throughly or no; if thouhaft brought forth the fruits oftrueholineflè of life, and haft either returned to thyfrfi love, if it was found atfirif, or els haft by a greater increafe of/ove, augmented it. But whydoth he fo inftatit ly call for thefrfl workes, efpecially in the counterPaineof phelus, which containeth the fpace of Soo. yeers or thereabouts? What will be have the church that is far and wide inlarged, andincreafed with an infinite multitude ofcitizens, to be brought backe againe to her infancy? er would he have the fame confederation robe had of thewhole world, that is ofone citie ? Nowalfo the timedrew neer, whenas the church fhould have a Chroflia* Magifrate , Corrilantine being ftraightwayes about to come to the Empire: what need fhould there be thenof the ancient difcipline ? It hadbeen meet for Chrif perhaps tohave Raid a while, ¬ thus vehemently to have urged thofe finiT rudiments lit forchildren, for which portly there was to benoufe. But thus fpeake men that dream like thofe that to aguiflh. He that knewheft, what was , belt to be advifed forthe behoof ofhis fposefe, it isevenhe, that afterfomany veers , andafter that the church was fo far fcattered abroad, is fo importunate for her f -- Workes; that will have her eArnzels labour hard againe in the word, and to Punifh notorious .offenders with the cenfures oftl e Church. He knew that the order that was -of his owne- inftitntion would agreeafwell untoProvinces as unto cities, and that 'it did not at all hinder the government ofthe Commonwealth, but that ,it did further and adorne it above ail otherthing. Let us there- fore learn fromhence, that that firfigovernment ofthe chart it com- mon to all times andplaices, and that it is not tobe permitted to be at the arbitrement of risen , to followWhat Way they lift but that al- Wayes inReformin{ achurch, we muff have recourfe unto thefrfli b ginnings; to the Which, as our only rule, We muß call backs Vthatfoevrr fleayethfrom it, andthat they arenot to be turned and tuned according r to the crookrdnefjeand iarrinefound ofthefüsceedinJ'churches. .If
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