The Circum(iaaces of Maries eerdiaoa. Paífion Sunday. Ser.36e 571 nogreat harmecancome of it ; butwhen aSoule fhallhue deuoydof flame or feare, Lordhaue mercie vpon it. OurSauiourChrift, taking it tobe the extre- mitieand vrmoft ofall euill,faidofa Iudge, IneitherfeareGodnor Man : He that fhall caft vphis accounts with Heauenaboue,andwithhisHonour here beneath, and whenhe hath madethisreckoning, fhall thinkewith himfelfe, that beebath nothing to lofe,What bridle can reftraine him r One of the realons why God commanded, That aman fhould notdefame his neighbour,was, That he fhould not make his fiine perdurable. Saint 'heroine faith, That we fhould ratherpri- uatlyadmonifh, than publiquelypunifh, Left if fuchdone 'heraldonce lobfbame,he /heralddwellin hufinneforsuer, Amongft noble Natures,Honour is the bridle of Vice; and in cafe they fhould notprofeffe Vertue, yet willthey haueacare to vphold their credit. Saint4uguJtine fàith, That God"didnotaugmenttheMo- narchicofthe Romans for their vertue,becaufewhileft they adored fallegods theycould hardly profeffeit;but becaufehauing fet Honour before their eyes, it was agreat bridle to curbe in theiriices. The thirdcircumftanceis, That(he fhouldpurchafe her felfe the name of a Sinnereffe in fopopulous aCitie. This was it that made theEuangclift fay, Be- held, awomanin the Citiewhichwona Sinner, (this of Saint Luke was agreat endee- ringof theoffence) DeguafeptemDamonia eiecerat, out ofwheisi bee bad calflisten Deuils. Nowby thefe tenet' Deuils is tobee vnderftood the manifoldnclfe of her finnes ; this is Saint Gregories opinion :.but Saint Ambrofe will hauethereby tobe vnderftood feuenreali Deuils ine: eed, Hedriedvp therffxeof Holdin Mar- thei, anddrone out the DerailsinMarie ; and it is no fmall prootc thereof, that two Euangelifts fhould expreffethe fame inplain and fulwords : forwhen one Euan- gelift letsdownea thing indarke andobfcure termes, another vfiially explaines the fame ; but Saint Marke and Saint Lukeboth,hereinagree and fay,otoofwhom hehadcafgfeuenDerails ; andSaint Hierome in the life of IL. larion andProfperlike- wife affìrmeth,That thiswasachaftìfement which God did often vfe in great fines. The fourthcircumftance is, Thegreat hurtwhich (he occafioned to thefouls andbodies ofmen, agreat caufewhereof was her extreame beautie. Sam6acra, amongft fome ofhis Emblemes which bee hath made ofhumane beautie, bepaints forth inone ofthem, aLyon, a Hare, aFowle, and aFifn; for there is not any creature more contagiousthan aLyon, nor any more cowardly thanaHare; nor anycreaturehigher than theFowle,nbr lower in his manfion than'the Fifh ; all which,render andyeeldthemfelues prifoners tobeautie.Hula lined in great feare of Gods People, and whenhe could not get Bataan to curie them,aduifing with his Councell, (Balsambeing the firft proieEtor) he font (as Lyra noteth it)a fquadronofthefaireft women thathis Countriecould affoord, amongft the Ifraelites, who did beare in their Banner for their Deuice the ImageofBelphegor ; and they whobèforedid feeme to that King tobe invinci- ble, rendred themfeluescaptiues to thebeautieof thole Moabitifli women; Et initiatifunt Belpheger,dr cemederrant factfrciamortuorum, Theymarried thcm,and .adored their Idoli ; and (as /ofphits Pets it downe) it was not onely the common people, but manyof the chiefeft amongftthem, that offended inthis kind. F r the flefhbeing notonely baited,burblinded with this outward beautie, it bath no eyes to behold the light oftheSonne, Supercecidit ignis,(thatis) ThefireofCon- copifencefelldown, andtheyfäw not the Swine : The light ofmyneeyes is notwithme ; thus Dauiddifcourfedwithhimfelfe treating ofhis adulterie. ofee compareth Adulterie, to aheated Ouen, whencecomes forth the flamewhichburns , and the The forceof Beauúo dolta y.
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