250 What isvn- derftoodby the wineprelfe The coft which Chrift was at with hisVineyard. The firmneffc of theChurch. What is meantby the Tower. On the Fryday after rity to the worlds end ; &by the graceof God,thy eyes may abftaine from that which is euill. Totes mundua in malignpofitus efi, AlIthe world isfetvpon mifchiefe ; Theworld isacontinual' warre,a long inlarged temptation. AndSaint Ambrofe calls it Piraterium,A Sea fraught withPirats : For(as Saint Augufline fairh)there- in there isnothing fafe. In Paradice,the forbidden Fruit, nor the Treeof Life were not fecure ; and thereforeGod placeda Cherubinbefore thegate, to gard it the furer. Salomon had nothis bed-chamber fafe, though it weregardedwith fomany ftrong men : How (hall it be with that houfe then that is without walls orany defence at all r Ybi non e/1fepes,diripietur poÇßio , (faith Ecclefiaffices) A Vineyard that is without aMount,giue it forloft. Ed1cauit Turrim. He built a Tower in it. This Tower Origenand Saint Hieromevnderftand to be the Temple of Ierutàlem,whichwas built in ahighplace. Irenaus would haue it tobe the fameCitie whereofEfay faid , Yenite,afcendamus admontemDomini. Saint Ambrofe and Saint Hilarie, The heigth of the Law. Others, that place where the fruitsof theVineyard were to be kept Abundantia in Turribrts tuts. Other Schoolemen andDo&ors take it to be the Churches Beacon or Watch- Tower : Others, to beour Faith, whole fight extends it felfe to earth, heauen, and hell. There is nothing that importstheWorld more, than theeyes of this Tower. Some feeking out the principall caufe of the Worlds perdition , fay, Couetoufneffe is the root thereof ; Radixomniummalornm cupiditas. Others,Ig- norance ; alledging that of the P hylofopher , omnispecans, eft Ignorant. But the truthis, it is the want of Faith. Etfoditin ea Torcular. Hediggeda Pitforthe 'inepreffe. By this pit ofthe Winepreffe, origen and Saint Hieromevnderftand,the Sacrificeofour Sauiours bodie and blond : Saint Hilarie,The Croffe ofChrift : Saint Gregorie, The chaftifement ofHierufalem. TheOwner of this Vineyard had made it fo perfelt and fo abfolute, that the Renters thereofliued inamanner idle, and had little or nothingmore todo,than to keepe it clean fromThornes, and to gatherand enioy the Fruits thereof: wherin thisMailer ofafamily ¡hewedthegreat care hehadofhis houfe,treating therein touching mans good,&the flightaccount that manmadeofthis his hap- pineffe and felicitie. When God created theWorld,he tooke not vpon him the nameof anHusbandman ; nor didhe takeany paines inthe creatingofit, forhe but fayd theword,and it was done, ipfedixit, erfaétafunt. But thisVineyard of the Church , it coft him the paines ofplanting it, ofcompaffing it inwith a hedge, ofdigginga pit for the Winepreffe, ofbuilding a Towerin it, befides the life ofmanyof his feruants, as alto ofhim, acguiftuitfanguine fug. Thiswas a new 2eah, with whom that formerold2 oah wasnot tobee compa- red : Forthat, giuing anend to ayongworld, though grownoldin fin, deftroy- ed the people, but nottheir wickedneffe ; but this did vtterly ouerthrow the Kingdome of finne,drowning it in thefloudofhis blond, andgaue the firft be- ginning to the lifeofGrace. Whence followeth the firmeneffe andperpetuitieOf the Church ; for,being foundedvpon fo fure a Foundation, who can ouerthrowit r supradorfummeans fabricaueruntpeccatores, [Another letter hath it,Arauerunt oratorio] The Ploaghers ploughedfurrowesonmybacke. Alluding to thatwhich was then invfe for frgning out
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