Chilli neuer fo fencibleof VponPaffion.Sunday. Ser. ;2. any iniuries,as ofreproehet. untoGod. God promifedMofes to make him aCaptaine andGouernour ofanò- thermore noble and more honourableNation, defiring that he mightcut off and make an end at once ofthat rebellious people. ButMofis befought him, lay- ing, My good Lord, this were a great honour for me, but Iamcontent to for- goc it, becaulèthou (halt Puffer in thinehonourif thoudeftroy this people,Leafi the Egyptians f eake,andfay,he hath broughtthem out malitiouflyfor toga, them in the mountatnes, andto confume them from off the earth. This were but to run thecenfure of euill tongues , and the hazard of thine honour. Our Sauiour Chrift did not relent any thingfo muchas affronts and difhonours ; this made him to breake forth into this paffionat fpeech, Te went out withfwords mallows to take me, 44" r f/ hadbeenea thee. Againe, Thouknoweft my reproach, andnone knowes it to fully asthou. To thelè (hall we adde that other, Saturabituroppro- brÿs; all his other torments made himRill moreand more hungrie andabated not theedgeof his ftomacke ; but hewas glutted withhis reproches,and theaf- fronts that wereoffered him, hehad his bellic toofull ofthem , more than bee was wellable to beare. Among(} othercaufes of that his myflerious fweating of blood in the Garden, the Saints fetdownethis as the molt principali , That the difhonour did therereprefent it felfevntohim offeting himfelfe ftarkena- ked vpon the Croffe,and that hewas tobemade afpe6tacle vntothe world, his bloud likea faithfulfriend,hauing recourfe to the bafrifulmodef}ieofthewhole bodie , as it iswoont vpon force occafionstohaue recourfe vnto the heart. Ina word,hee did euermore giueapproued pledges &tokens of thegreatreckoning that he made of hishonour : but whenhis Fatherslay at ftake,hcwas forgetful! ofhis owne; And therefore not anfweringto that ofSamaritanoses tu, Thouart a Samaritan; hemildlyreplied,EgoDamonium non habee, I hauenel aDeuill,but Ihonour my Father,&c. Ifiekenot mineownepraife, but there honethatfeekethit, and iudgeth. Ye fecke to blot mynameout ofthe worlds memory,andto bunk myhonor and authori- tywith the infamieofaWitch, a Sorcerer, a Diuell, and aGlutton.And though I doe not fecke to repaire this wrong,Thereo one thatfeeketh after it and iudgeth. There is not any thing fo hid andburied, that,though it lie couered for a time, is not intheend difcouered. Of Fire and ofLoue, rlíe fiid exit enim cela- merit ignem, Whocan hide them ! but the fame may be betterverified of the Truth. Well may falfhood andpaffion, aflif}ed by tyrannyand power, hide and bury it felfe, but in theend, Thereis nothingfoferret but ¡halide reueeled : Fortime is agreatdi fcouerer oftruths. Plutarch reporteth in his Apothegmes, That at the facrificesofSaturn (whom they adored forthe god of Time) thePriefts had their heads coucred till the Sacrificewas fully ended ; a ceremonie which was not fufferedby any other ofthe gods: And the myftery thereof was, That Timedothcoucr things nowand then for awhile, but difcouers them at laf}. And thereforePindaras Paid, That the Iatter dayeswere the faithfulleft witnef- fes. Timefometime fleepeth, but itawakes again. But in cafe it fall alleep,and neuer wake anymore ,Eft qui quaint,dr iudicet, God is (}ill ready at hand who fearching our the truth, will iudge his ownecaufe. Obliuion!lath two bofomes,whereinfheburieth thofe thingsWhich themolt defireth to blotour ofthc remembranceoftheworld. The one, thebottom oftheSea. Theother, thebowels oldieEarth. Intothe Sea, manyTyrants hauethrown thebodies and afhes of'theSaints, to theend, that.beingdeuouredbyfifties, ordrowned in the deepe, theymight not 535 ExodS2. Gods honour mußeuer be preferred be- fore ourown. Truth eau nc: tier bealroge- ther fuppreft. Mat, t e. Obliui6hath twobofontes.
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