59z Danl. Gen.49. Malice both blind and Pimple, in all herplots andpraflilès. Vpon the Fryday after J ouer that whole chapter for your letter fatisfaEtion,whichwill bee worth your labour : but inReadofreceiuingandadoring him, we haue faidwith thofe Far- mers inthe Gofpell, Let vskill the Heyre, And theinheritance (hallbe ours. [five let him thus alone, a1Ymen will beleeue in him. This is another moltfoule follyof theirs, contrary toall Scripture. Ifwe lethim alone (fay they) all will 1 beleeueinhim. Whereas by taking his life fromhim , his death (wherein they' were deceiued in their iudgements) was tobe Semenfidei, thefede offaith ; and 1 segmentum Ecclef.e,The augmentationand increafe ofthe Church . Sipofierit animam pampapropeccato,videbitfemen longareum,&c. (It is Efayes prophefieofhim,) When kefhaJmake hispule anofferingfor finne,hethat!feehisfeede,and(hallprolonghis dayes, andthe willofthe Lordpallproper inks hand. He/hallfeeofthe trauellofhts foule,ánd fballbefattsfied. Byhis knowledge/hall my rsghteousferoant iufltftemany, &c. Let them then takeaway his life,and there is noArithmeticke thatcan fumme vp our happineffe,and their miferie. The Romans willcome, andtakeawayboth eurplace andnation. Here is another blindconfequence ; if we let him hue, the Romans will comeand take away our placeand nation. Whereas, they might rather haue inferred this conclufion; The Romans will come and they likewife will beleeue inhim. For it is not much, That he that could conuert a lew, fhould conuert a Roman ; confidering that the Romansamongflall their gods hadnot one that could worke aMiracle towin them. But fuppofethatthe Romans fhould nothaue belecued,and fhould haue treated to deflroy them ; he that rayfedvp the dead, was not he of power to refiff the powerof theRomans One fudith triumphed ouer W Nebuchadnezzar. OneEliflia blinded thofeof Syria, and led them intoSamaria. One Elias confu- medwith fire, Ahabs Quinquagenarian Captaines,ànd their fouldiers.Andnone ofall thefehad the like power to that ofour Sauiour Chriff. Befides thefevainedifcourfes, they hadanother no lef%blind and impious; If we kill him,theRomanswill notcome.It being rather an affured truth,that they would comeonely vpon this,as it was foretold by Daniel, The cilteßias(hall bee flain,andthepeopleofthe Prince that fbalcome,fhalldeßroy the Cityand the Santluary. Had they notput ourSauiour Chuff todeath, Ierufalemhadflood andcontinu- ed, but hauingput him to death, there (hall not be one (tone left vpon another. Simeonand Leui, brethren in euill; Into theirfecrets let not my foulecome,forin their wrath they flewa man, and intheir felfe-will they dlggeddownea wall. It was tacobs prophefie againft his two fonnes,SimeonandLeui,ofwhom thefe Pha- rifees did defcend, as it is noted by Nicholasde Lyra. Let not My foule enter in- to their Councell, for in their wrath theykill'd a man, anddigg'd downe awall. All whichwas but a lgnification of their killing of our Sauiour Chriff, and throwing thewalls of Ierufalemdowne totheground.Murueante murale,Chriff was the bulwarke to this wall : So Efay (tiles him. This Councell made their Countrydefolate, For Titres and Vejbafianhad nototherwife beeneof power to deflroyit : but the Priests and thePharifees fearfulloftheir euill,deffroyed the fountaineofall goodneffe. TheRomans willcome. Great is thetorment which afoule fuffereth being placed betwixt two extreames, Safanna, betwixt thefeare of God, and thefeare of the Iudgesof Babylon; a damfell betwixt pouertie, and the purfuit ofa rich wanton: IfIconfent, Iloofe God ;ifnot,Iperifh for want offood. APhyfitian betwixt agreat weakneffeof body, and a double Plurifre; ifI let this fickeman blood, hedyes through weakneffe ;ifnot lethimblood, of hisgriefe. The rich man that enioyeth another mansgoods, ifI reflore (faithhe) I mull (land with- out
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