NoProphet woecountry in the third SondayinLent. his ownecountry, Ser.><g. 319 Expofitaautem ilkwhich theSyriackereads,Cumpefuiffit expofituaápopolofuo. Whenhe cane toteaman,oneofhisown Nationput him in dangerofhis life, Pharaoh fendingafter him tohaue him apprehended.Afterward,being Captaine and Commander ofthe People,they did oftenmutinie,and not onelydid mur- mure infecret againft him,but withopen throat didpubliquely blafpheme. Ai_ ran andotarie that werefo neere allyedvnto him, vfedhim like a Turke or a Moore, becaufe hehad married anÆthyopian woman. Dothan and Abiramup- braided him tohis face,asking him, Whither hee meant tyrannoufly to vfurpe the Gouernment e Iofephwas fohonoured by theÆgyptians,that they accoun- ted him as a fecond King; rno tantum regnifile toprecedam. His brethren put him downe intoapit,andfould him fora Slaue. Dauidwasbeloued and hono- redof thepeople, andofall the whole land befides ; but his father in law , and his owne fonne fought to take awayhis life andkingdome from him. Efay was fpit at by the people,andill intreated bythem. Ieremiewas mockt , fcoffed at, anddifefteemed; andat Taft they fet him in a paireofStockes. Pafhurthe High- Prieftfmote Jeremiahthe Propher,and put him in the StockesWhichwere in the high gateof .8eniamin,that was by the houfeof theLord : And ( asTertullian reporteth it) was laftly ftoned to death. At the Prophet Elifha, the boyesdid hoot in the ftreets, crying outBald-pate, baldpate. Elias, was perfecuted by KingAhaband hisQueene. c illichab, was continually clapt vp in prifon, Et on ladibria & verbera experti, dye. Inhumane Stories we read, thatHannibal was banifhed fromCarthage after he hadtriumphedouer fo many Romane Emperours. Lycurgus, was peltedout ofLacedemoniawith ftones,.theOracleshauing as it were celebrated him for a god. Solon,was thruft out ofAthens after hehad giuen them fuchwholfome Lawes. Tbem/focles, after hee had innobled hisCommonwealth withfundrie honourable feruices,wasforced toflye to the Perfians,where KingXorxes recei- ued himwith agreat deale ofhonour. Bookes are fo full of thefe examples, that it werean endleffe labour to relatethem.Thatglorious Door Saint Jerome giues it asanaduice , Thathewhodefires tobee famous,muft forfakehisowne Countrie. He that goes toFlanders, orto the Indies, after hee comes home is the better refpeEted.Clement the Pope reporteth, That in the Primitiue Church thepeople would flock to theSermonof a(hanger. Thefourth Carthaginian Councell madenDecree, thatif theBithops did paffe through any Townes thatwere not within their own Iurifdi Lion, that theGouernorsofthofeplaces should inuite them tobeftow aSermon on them. Ina word, The firft inwhofe nofe Lazarus ftunke,was Martha. Forthere is no Prophetthat is efteemed inhis owne Countrey. Some manmaychance to aske me,vponwhat this monftroufneffein nature is grounded a SaintAmbrofe,Saint Ierome,andSaint Chryfoftomeareall ofopinion, That Enuie is the leauenof this ill as it was of all other euills in the World. Saint Cbryfoltomeaskes thequeftion,what hurt aProphet doth,thatEnuie fhould thus bitehimwith her venimous teeth :' And Ianfwer,Becaufe thedoth noten- uie thebad,but thegood. Caine (faythSaint Jude) did thereforekill his brother becaufe his workeswere good. , Tbomaafayth,That Enuy is a forrowingor repiningat anothermans good ;for that itis prefumed, that itdoth leflènanddiminiíh their ownhonor.For thehurt whicha man maydo to himfelfand othcrs,ourwillies againft that manproceeds notfomuchofEnuyas ofZeale. And fo is itnoted byS.Gregorie.ATyrantgoes foorth withthe rareofan Alcaldedecorte;it greeues me,and Jam heartily forry for Éxd'y Num z;. Ewa r f. Num. X. Num. t f. 1.1(1npr 19. bray 6S. Hier. ze. 3. Reg. ea. vlt. Mrcab.z. Luke4.' Thenature ofEnuic.
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