QQ lap orates thóúld haue Upon the Thurfday after 5V8 jaw before theireyes s,1dat.4 Pral. s. ExOd.ry. let ant cuppaJefromme; Wherehe faith, That therewerethereand then repro- fencedveto him the paines and torments which this people were tofuffer for his death, and beingdefirous that they fhould notbevndone by their owne wil- fulneffe, he faid, Let itpar. So that it was not the feare of death, that thus wrought with him, but the delire that hehad to diuert his people from fogreat an ill.Againfi /rpm : What endeeringcan the conceit of manimagine tobe grea- ter, than that God fhould fweat blond for theirgood, that went about todohim all the mifchiefe theycould. TheBooke of cítitacbabees indeering the malice of one Symonof the Tribeof Benjamin, reporteth, that he fpake much euill ofan holymancalled oniac ; as that he was a Traitor rothe Temple and tothe Citie, and that hee held intelligence with Heliodorw, aduifing him to take thence the Orphans and the Widowesgoods, that were theredepofited. Howbeit onì- ac was aFather to his Countrie, aProtectorofthe people , aMediator betwixt Godand them, and a well witherto the generall good and yet this wretched Villaine, that was himfelfea Traitor to his Countrie , called him abetrayer of theCommonwealth. Thiswas great malice, but nothing to this Counfel here aflembledagainft Iefus.Andas Ruperttar hath obferued it,whileft theywere trea- ting of thisbufineffe againft Iefus, theykept out all that which might any way make for Iefus : Neither LawnorProphet entred into this Councell,theCoun- fellors were Anger, Hatred,CouetoufnefT'erand theirown privat intereft.Marke withwhom, andwithout whom theyenter into this Councell. visaing Iefus. Noman that deliiresagoodend in his bufineffes,would wil- lingly giue them abad beginning. Dooft thou take theburthenof gouerning Kingdome vpon thy fhoulders e Take this Lefton thenalong with thee, Bee snip nowthereforeyes Kings, be learnedyee lodgesof the earth, d.c. Motes nominating ¡o- pa4h tobe his fucceffor, gauehim in charge, That hefhould euermorehaue the Law before his eyes ; Sic intelliQes, f1' e rigesviamDomini, By letting the Law before thee. Thisis that vlpprehenditedtfciplinam;which the Seuentietranflate, ofculamini Filium, Kyle theSonne. He that goethon fome great employment abroad in his Kings feruice, giucs his firftentrance thereintobykilling his hand, receiuing his inftructions, and offering him his feruice,though it he withthe ha- zard of his eflate and life, O yee Kings looke vntoit, yee haue taken a great charge upon you,adangerous enterprife ; ofculamini Filions, Kip the Sonne,who is the Wifedome ofGod,and begof himasSalomondid inhis gouernment,that he will giue yee the light of Vndcrftanding, to knowhow to rulearight, and fboulders of braffe tobearevpfo great a weight. Fa frl# defeertores , vtfeceritis concilions,o, nonexmet oT ordireminitelam, & nonperiiritammom. Another letter hath it, rdfi%Apoflat o : Whether he callsthemApoflata's either for the Idolatriesof Egypt inRamefes, whichwas thatCountrie whichPharaohalot- ted vnto them, neere vntothe Citie Eliopolis, fo muchcelebrated for that fa- mous Temple of the Sunne, (this plagueofadoring the Sunne,cleauing flit dole vnto them) for albeit God had publifhed a moft rigorous precept in Exodus againft it, yet this Idolatriecontinued tilllofai histime, whoburnt theChari- ots andHorfes of theSunne : Orwhether it were for their Apoftacie, indelive- ring themfelues ouer to ftrange Kings , openlyprofefTingto theworld, Weehaoe no otherKing hut carer. Saint Limbrofi andImam treating vpon that place of' Efy concerningthis Counfell, vnderfland it thus, That they did contriue a Counfeil, but Godwas notin the plot ; they fpunnea thred, but the Spirit had no finger in it : &being that it was not called inGodsname,nor by theSpirit of God, it mutt of forcebe done inthe Deuilsname, andbyhis fuggeftion; and all
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