God will not (offer his Paffion Sunday. Ser.35 563 Temples to beprophaned. Ruguflinein his -bookede Ciuit. Dei, reporteth , That the Goths haumgfackt Rome, as many as betookethemfelues to the ChurchesofSaint Peter and Saint Paul, remained free ; fo much could the refpeet of facred places preaaile with thesecruell Barbarians : but it would notferue our Sauiour Chrifts turnewith the levees, though hehad made aLaw touching the immunitie of the Temple. They cameabout him. Here was that prophecie of Dauid fulfilled , 0f49 valuesencompaflîd me about, andthefat Buisbefiegedme. Euthymitu faith, That by your Calms he meanes the commonpeople; and by your Buls,theNoblemen. And hefaith, That they all came about him, and compaffed him round in forme ofa ring ; and that they roared like Lyons, and fnarled at him like fo ma- nydogges : when in a Common-wealth thebulls are confederar with the dogs, when the Lyons take part with the wolfes ; When your Patritij ioynewith your Pleybeians , your Nobilitie with the Communaltie, and allto doe mifchiefe, giue that Common-wealth for loft andvndone ; when your Couernador and his Alguazil ; whenyour Alcalde, and his Procurador ; whenyour oydor, and his Ef- crivano;whenyour Secritarioand his oftcial,do goe hand inhand together, it is all one. Chryfoflome expounding thofe words of Saint Luke, Dimittenobìs Barrabam, Loofe Barrabas, He faith, That they that were theeues, did defirea theeues fiber- tie. And ifrhey fought foearneftly to fauc a theefe, it was not much that they fhould condemne the innocent. Efaybewayling Ierufalems ill hap, who hauing heretofore beene holy, had now turned whore,entertaining all forts ofmen, one while theeues, another while murderers, &c. Rendring anon after the reafon; Principies inftdeles,focÿforum. It is no maruaile that Princes fhould ftrike hands withtheeues,being that they arewilling toflarewith them in theirthefts.Here- toforePrinces were wont tofauour the good,andpunifh the bad. minis/faithof himfelfe, That whenhedid bethinke himfelfea mornings , heepropounded to himfelfenottopardonany notoriousoffender, nor to fparethe lifeofthewick- ed, nor thofe that were illmembers ofthe Common-wealth. Inmatutino inter- fictebam omnes operantes iniquitatem, Oh what a happy eftateofa Common- wealthwas here fora Prince hating the wickedfo much, he could not chufe but fauour the good. But now the world was growento that pafle, That your Herods, yourPiles, your High- Prieffs, and yourPharifees, in Read of doing of this, when theybethinke themfeluesrinthe morning, theycall their Pagevn- to them ,and fay, Goe tofuch a one,remember my feruicevntohim , and know howhe hath flept tonight,&c.Now adayesyour Gouernorsareadored in their Minifters : becaufe they feruethem with thehands ofludas,and bring bribes un- tothem, ffrangling luftice with this clofe couetoufnefle. They carne about me. Theydid fill and (hut vp the doore through which hee was to palle, thinking there tomakean endofhim : but when either God, or a manwhom God fauours,is thus inclofed on euery fide, this hedging of him in will not (erne their turne; for he hathwings to flye from them.To thispurpofe Dauidbeing perfecuted by Saul, compofedTome of his Pfalmes. The Kings Souldiers had once compaffed him in round,Inmodem Corone, Vowing,thar he fhould not efcape their fingers, vnleffebee had thewings ofa bird to flye from them. In theLordput 1 my trufl, Why f yyou thenunto my f uke thatfhejhotriddlye like a Sparrow to the Mountainer, &c. But hauing God for myfhield andmy defence, I may fafely lay me downe tofleepe and takemy refl. O Lord, agreat fquadron may affright averygoodman, when heflail fee theyhaue befet him : But why fhould I feare as long as thoudoeft Bard and protect me ? Thou art myrefuge in tribulation,&c. Saul tent foine toapprehend Dauid ; ("Withal faued his lifeby let- tin Loft is that Commons wealth, in whichMtgi- firates and theirMiniilers areboth faulty Lkk.:3. God will not fitfferhischid dren to fall in. to the handr of theungodly,
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