Enuiousmalice (hakes offallre- `% p on theV Y Vednefda after 5ÓZ fpeQs,todoewhat (he defignes. God did his greateft works alwayson the Sunday. God will haue his Temples honoured. He doth not fay, ihaue donemoreg1odthan anyofyouall; for the reward isnot gi- uen according to the meafureof theprofit,but the pains ; not for the fauingof Soules,butfor his fweating to faue them. And for the better inftruéting vs in this truth, our Sauiour Chrift after fomanymyracles done,fo many Sermons preached, and all tono end, doth not for all this forfake this people and giue them ouer, but comes here vnto this great Feaft,to dire& them in the right way, Et deamrbalabat,&c. Then camethe lewesroundabout kim c The Woolfes heere come about the Lambe,as your Dogs about apoore Beggar,as your biggerVeffelsabouta final Fifherboar, or as your Sodomites about Lots houle, orsad, foldiers aboutDa- uid ; Inmadam corona, TheyhadJhut himinonallfades, as a band offouldiers befet a Cattle, or as theWicked, the Iuft ; which is as much to fay , In circuitu Impÿ ambulabant, The Wicked walkedin a Circle : And they learned this of the Deuill ; of whomSaint Peterfaith, Hegoesaboutfeeking whom heemay deuoure. They came about him : Vpon fogood aday,a dayof good workes, and on the day ofrhe re- nouationofthe Temple, when they were to treat of the renouationof their foules ; Circumdcderunt,They cameathwart two walls,whichwouldhaue made euen the Deuillsof Hell to haue turned cowards. Theone was, The refped to this fo folemne a Fcaft. The other,To the Temple, and thefacred Pledges thereuntobelonging. None but Reprobates will ftorevp injuries, reuenge,treafons, gaming, ban- queting, whoring, and the like villanous aétions,forthe Sabboth day. TQzian zen faith, That the principali end of this or the likeFeaft , is a remembring of God , andagratefullacknowledgement of thofemany fauourswee hauerecei- uedfrom him : but that whichwas then, and is now a dayesmoft pra6tifed, is,a forgetfulneffe ofGod, and anvnthankefulneffe for benefits receiued.Where I wouldhaueyou toobferue,(nor is it vnworthy your noting)that Goddidon the Sabbothdaydo the greateftworksthat euer hee did; he rewarded the Angels, crowning them withglorie, he threw the Dragon & his followers down from Heauen, hee freed hispeople from rgyptscaptiuitie, heewas borne into the world, after fo many figheshee rofeagaine, he fenthis holySpirir,he ouercame thevnbeleefe ofThomas; &on the Sabbothday he (hall iudge the Qtlicke& the Dead. Ina word,allyour feftivalldayes whatfoeuer, were inflituted inmemo- riall of extraordinaricfauours conferred uponvs : andall thefe, the Ingratefull repaywith new offences. Touching the Temple or Church, wherein God is to bee honoured, Nlua faith, That a Chriftian should beare no leffe refpeEt tothis his holyplace,than if he were inHeauen. Ieremie maketha fearefull threatningagainft Babylon, ap- plying it againft her, and againft her King and theMedes, Acuitefagittae, implete pharetras, arma, arma : Andwhy for VltioDomini, b vltioTempli. He weigheth therethewrongs whichNebuchadnezzar had done toIerufalem,by difhonoring Matrons, deflouringVirgins,killing littlechildren, tormenting old folkes,bur- nine houfes, their robberiesand their fpoyles ; andyetall thefe hepaffeth ouer in íilence ; the Prophet(as one that found himfelfe thereatmuch agrieued)pref- fingonely the prophanationof the Temple, and that hehad madeita (table for his Horfes. They came about him . Arnongft manyother thingsthat they layd toour Sa- uiour Chrifts charge,one was, Icandeflroy theTemple; whereinthey did not on- ly accufehimof blafphemie, for making himfelfe of the fame omnipotencie withGod but for his irreuerencealfo, and difrefpeht to the Temple. Saint Augufline
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