Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

628 That all'rorldly things are mutable and vnconffant. lifting them vp, whom he meaneth to ouerthrow with the greatefi downefall:wherin the world and the Prince thereof, vfe ambitious men as the crow the fhel-fifh, carying them a- loft vuto the highefl places, that from thence calling them downe,they may bruife therm with thefall,andfo more eafily prey vpon the. But as they deale thuswith their own friends,, fometime becaufe they _will not, and fometime becaufe they cannot prefer them; fo much more falfly and vnconllantly with thofe who neglet and contenine their deceitfullho- nors, being readie to magnifie and difgrace them with the fame breath, when as they cannot allure them to bite at their bewitchingbaits.An example whereofwehauein Paul and jut tq.t 1.14. Barnabas, whom the, vulgar people (admiring their miracle) 19. would needs deific; which honor whë they had refufed,and perfwaded them to returne all the glorie vnto God,rhey pre- fendy vpon a groundleffe information laid violent hands vpon them and lloned them, now thinking that they defer- ucd capitall punifhments, whom ere -while they elleemed worthie diuine honor. Thus others fhewed the like vucon- A&.t8.4.. flancie,whileaone while they condemned. P4u1, as amale- fa6lor, and prefencly after werereadie to adore him as their idoll. But moll notablie loth the mutabilitie, and fickle vn- conffancie oftbe variableinultitude appeare in their cariage Matth.tt.s.9. towards our S auiour. Chrill;whom one day they foughtafter with cap.t7.za, to makehim a King; and fooneafterreie&ing him,preferred beforehim an Heathen,yea a hated Monarch:one while they flocked about him,to giue him all louing and refpeóìitie en- tertainment, firawing greene boughes in his way, and (be.. caufe they thought them not good enough) fpreading alfo their garments, even vnderhis Affes feet; and another while mocking and reviling him,buffetcing and fpittingvpon him, whipping and crucifying him, & in Bead of bellowing their garments upon him, they take from him his ovine :this day they meet him wich:ioy, and falucehitn,laying, Hofannathe Sonne of Dauid, bided be he that commeth in the name of the Lord, Hofanna in thehigher/ ;but within a few daies after they crie out with an vniuerfall confent, Away with him, away with him; crucifiebim,crucifiehim. Which as it notablie fheweth the.