gods EficemoftheDeathofhis Saints. 24:5 women departed, but without worfhip. So may we honourably fpeakof (itch as are w ithGod, and wedo fo ; Luther calls Thomas Aquinas, Saint, and Melanîlhon flicks not at it, to call Anthony, Bernard, Dominick, and Francis fo too. We fel- dome name thofe glorious Doors otherwife, than Saint Bail, Saint Greg: Nag.. Saint mbrofe, Saint Augufline. And fo we ufe to commemorate the holy A- pottles, the bleffed Martyrs, and the Fathers. And think we have as much liberty asthe Church of fi ome,to call godly men ofour lateacquaintanceSaints,asI remem- ber a learned and reverend Bilhop of ours to have called Matter Greenham. But withal as the Scriptures do, fo we may alfo call the living believers, and they arc fo before they come to heaven. vfe s. If there be foie, let us all afpirc unto that honour, to be fuck as excel in vertue, to be put in Albo-Sanllorum, and to have our names in the Calender or roll. Let us follow the foot-fteps of Chrift, and holy men, learnofme, faith Chrift, Mat. s t.:9. for, I have givenyou an example thatye fhoulddo as I have done unto you, Joh. sg. rf. And let us follow them that have followed Chrift,to take out the patterns that have been fet us by Apoftical and holy men. In the ancienter times of more pare and fervent zeal, people were ready to run to any lights that did burn and Thine among them, to take example from them, how to regulate their lives ; Hence came many religious profeflions, ( though fine much degenerate andcorrupted >) who were won to the iìnitation of thofe pra&ices of fe/f_dental, contempt of the world, mortifying of voluptuous affeflions, &c. which they law in them. We might make a profitable ufe of the lives ofholy men, and Martyrs of old or of late, tocopy out their fanftity. And let it be an incouragement to the ftudy ofpiety and religion,toconfider what honour it brings along vvith it,it Saints Oil, fo thatsee need not be at that extream expence and charge, vvhichvve read foie have been at in the Court of7kome to procure Canonization. Vie y. If there be foie fuch here, and theybe men holy andreligious, then take vve heed that vve(peak not illof fuch,thatvveabufe them not, that vve opennot our mouths againft heaven, againít them that are Incola cmli, Inhabitants of heaven, either by an a &gal poflellion of glory, or here by an heavenly converfation. De- vout and religious men, vvhofe thoughts and hearts are above, do not count this their Country. they do but fojourn vvith us ; abufe not ftrangers then, efpecially theft ftrangers for their country fake. We ufe to fay, De San9is nil nífs bonum; vve fhould not (peak any thing to the prejudice of the Saints. The 'A... manias are prefently upon us , that vve forget this rule ; Sanlios Dei non effe peculiari honore colendos, docent omnes hodierni haretici. So Lorichitu accules us ( for vve knovv vvhom he means.) The truth is, vve dare not give them divine vvorihfp, nor make themGods, as the Papifts ( when they have wearied themklves in fitting BWarsaw,indeedin the very beginningof his their diftin&ions of latreia anddouleia to Kerraftatien, tells us, he allows not the word little ur oft do it roundly enough,and Dive. tobe given to the Sainr,,and that either p P ) Y g theword fell imprudently from him, or wri- the people in their pra&ice ; But we give Ling a B. for Beaus, the Printer miflook it them their due, and as much as themfelves for D. and printed Divue. But others flick would be willing to receive, as we go- not at the word, nor at much more. Saoulsr in an Odeofhis thus; atinaldg,.Assillobeads thered from the behaviour of the Angel adding, agneinibr, Demos.And Melchier Nu that was Pent to john , Apoc. 59.m. But neein an Epille of Hato Ignatiu,,anno ít44+ in the mean time, while they make a thri- amongothermarrers of the Indies, fpeaking ving trade of the flattering of the Dead, of she relish; Zaviers death, calls it'Aaastuo, 2averü. Bifbop Vida in hisbrine calledDi- they negleet and abufe the living Saints, vi, rwleflibur, after he bath i.nvocated theB. not only writing a Dele intheir Indices ex- Virgin andothers, faith, purgatory upon the teftimony of Pius or ram vo,cadusicorpori,. Prudent given by foie mire ingenious can noenufliponderir. menof theirs, to force of our Divines in .Taondase ,mare, onvirginer, particular ; but alfo traducing the whole New Dii bearianti,,,. eftate ofour reformed Churches for kW- And to adde but one more, Lipfut in Virg. .ffprieolli, cap. go. thus , Tuue tibi a,det matical, and heretical. DER, did, oats Nut d> etas. vf4. Luther, L. de caps. Bab. Me ¿anffh,io.tp,1. ionfefart.4,5. s7. Leri,h. in Forotali,is, har. r ale Sanft.
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