38 \ __________________ omile.sbi ; tharwef11alln.ot only havethq(~ wormajorcst~i. thiet;, from whom we have come by a (unt.. ,fi :ezllu natu rallline to be our ancell:ors but all gerudzgnum . ' . f h d ' sen.Ep.4 4 • th c. WHrth'eS o t e Lor , whofe ver- . · - · tues and noble' fer vices for God furvive in us, 91all be accounted. our ancefiors. What abundance of fervic~ might bed •ne f01 God, and qis trm h~ if the nobles and the greJ tones of the earth, did giye up themfel'les a1 d their ho·· nours to the fervice ofthe blc tf~d .God: . . . , v if they did encourage the hearts of their M zntme e- b h · · · · h l . . ,.1 · ~ e1 acce- ret 1entn Joynmg Wl t t 1c:m, In 'fo- , pto/pcrfon.a- ing or ftJfeting whatfoever ,God calls rum, ne(czo I for. I fay their brethren for fo wr: tamen quo 1 ' • . .• ' . • pa:Clo 'Virtru I have tt, Neht1t!~ ·1 o. 29. Certatnly in nobilipl~A l Chr:n will take it exceedingly well at •plau't, forte h · h d G d · · t' :quiaptv 4 cta- t ctr an s ; o ~s no a~cepter o ret:. -Ber~. ' pedons, yet I .know not httJW, faies "~ sopblam BertMrd, venue in a noble man does Ytrg. . 1 · r · b b r · · : . more p ea1e, tt may e, .· ccau~e tt. IS more cor;fpicuous. ·It is an obfervation of Hierom) that Saint John who \,,-as the '·· beloyed di~ciplewasofnfJbltjlock, and therefore the rather ~eloved, in which regard h~ faies he was fo'known· to the ~ tJigh 'Priefi, and did · not feare the . f :Jewu, fo as the or her Difcipht·k~ did ; · · . , ~{~l Hre . 'I (.
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