Itisonelyfor fin that Sonday inLent. Godforlakes vs. Ser. 25. their boetors andTeachers fromamongst them, nor the light of' his DoEtrine. 1 haue threatncd you with the famineof myword, willfendafáminein theland, not afamineofbread, nera thirft ofwater, but ofhearing the Wordof the Lord. But God recalls_t his rhreatningoftentimes, Etnonfaciet asolare ate vitra Dottorem tuuwr, andwillnot caufe thy Teacher tofiiefromthee. But lohnBaptif being dead,a id our Sauiour withdrawne himfelfe, that Coun.riecould not rest in a more wret- chcdeftate. . Secondly, The deathoflohnBaptifimadehim l aue theland,and put forth to fea, making a feperationbetweene him and them : for when God gets him gone from thy houfe or thycitre, thou artbeatenout of doores (as they fay) with a cudgeli; wen thendoth amango turningbacke his head, likea Hart that is hun- tedandpurfued by Hounds,neuer letting him tobeat reft,but chafing him with openmouth fromplace to place. God cannot abfent himfelfe from his Crea- tures, nor can his immenftiegiue way to the vtter abandoning of this goodly rabricke, and wonderfull Machina of theWorld.: yet fbgreat is the hatred whichhe.beares ço finne that he altocommands vs to get vs out of that Citie where Sinnedoth raigne;lignifyingthereby voto vs , That if any thing can makehint toabfent himfelfe from vs, it isour finnes. God had bis houfe and his refidence in Hierufalem ; fo fayes. Efay : God had his houfe and his hearth there, as if hee had beetle one of their fellow Citìfens,anda Towne dweller amongst them : buttheir abhominations madehim to abandon that place. Eze- chic/faw theglorie of Godhow it went by degrees out of the Temple, Raying one while here,&another while there,refling it felfe nowagainftthis piilar;now that, till at laft, Theglorie ofGadwáscleanegone oat oftheTemple. Theirabhorni- nations did as it were driuc hint out bÿheadand shoulders,& fhoov'd him forth by littleand little. The great abhominations that the Houle of ifraell committeth here, caufëtb me to depart frommy Sancivarie. lofephrea inhis booke ofthe Warres of the Ie;es faith , That when Titus andVefßafian came andbefiegedHierufa- lem,thegates ofthe Temple flewwide open,in token that their fumes had thruft God out from thence. AndCornelius Tacitus addeth That theymade a great noyfeat their opening, in token of his loathnesfe and vnwillingneffe to leaue them : howbeit he fpake like aGentile, hauing reference to the multitude of their owne gods. ThePoets likewife haue feigned, That Troyes vices were Troyes ruine,andhad banifhed thegods from them ; forhad they beetle prefent with them, neither the fire that confumed their Citie, norall the power ofthe Grecians had beene able to haue done them the leafsharme in the world: So lays Saint Auguftine in his bookes DeCinitateDei. TheSyrians tied their gods to the Altersoftheit Temples, with fetters and with chaises. And albeit Saint Chryfoflome faith, Thattheydid vfetheir as they deferued,yetthe intention and purpofeof that People was nottodetaine them there as prifoners and nraleft- dors, but only to hauethem in fafe keeping, and tomake' them fore from get- tingaway fromthem ; thinking themfelues vtterly vndone if they should de- prruethemof theirprefence. Woevntot hem, when lfhallgoefromthem. If be withvs, no ill but is good ; if God benot withvs, no good bur is ill: Becaufe Godwasnot withme theft mifties camevpöme.Sampfon as longas he had Godwith Lim, neither Hercles,Milo, nor Thefeos,were compirable vnto him ; but when God left him, there was not any manmore cowardly He thought to haue efcaped as at other times but he knewnot that the Lord was departedfromhim. Saint (marke,renders another reafon,Comeyet apart into the Wilderneffe andrefl awhile. Sogreat was thenumber ofthofe that followed him, that heehad not any 427 xofe.8.ti. E/dy 31.9. Efitb.8.6. Deut:3T. Did Marc.6,;T.
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