Ólo lob4. Truths fel- dome heard in Princes Courts. .Reg.aa. S.Peters finn like that of Adam. Prefumption hatefull vntoGod, and hurtfull toour fettles. OfPeters Denial extraordinarietoken ofhis loue, why God did notfayvnto him, I new knew :bat thou loueft God. The reafonis,That Almahilt mancomes to the top and heigth of his loue, he may prefume ofhimfelfe, that he hath then begun to loue. And, for that feare is the firfl fiep to loue, he fayd , Nunc co noui quod timça, &c. By thewhole drift of this difcourfc that conclufìon of Ecclefraflicrus remaineth cleere, Lift not thyfeufe VI, in the thought of rhyfeule, likethe Bull. Let not thy thoughts and hopes make thee doe the things that are vaine and foolifh. Hee in- fiances in thebull,anvntamedbeaft,whichdothnotacknowledge heauen.Why wilt thou leaue thy leafes and thy fruit, and romaine like a dotard in thedefart lob faith, Ifhe laydjollyon his t..Angelr howmuch moreon them that hue in houfés of clay ? Ifin the pureft fteele, he found ruff, and in the hneft cloth the Moth, &c. S. Augufline faith, Nullumpeccatumfacit lmmo, Tod nonpofiitfacere alter homo, f deft: reclor,per quern fac7useft home, t.Mandoth not commit thatfnne, which another may not doe,áfthat Rulerdoe not direct man,bywhomman rdmade. The fecond occafion onPeterspart, was the Palaceof Caiphas.Saint Ambrofe faith, That Peter comming towarme himfelfeat thePallace, came to denie the truth. Forwhere Truth it fetfe was takenprifoner, he hadneedof a great deale ofcourage, that fhouldnot incline to a lye...near Syluius reporteth, That Fre- dericke Archduke of Auftria, would goe anights difguilèd throughtheTauerns and Viétualing houfes belonging tothe Court, only to beamwhat they fayd of himfelfe,andhis Miniflors;& being demanded why he did expofehis perfon to that perill ? his anfwer was, becaufe in Court they neuer tell truth. Plutarch re- counteth ofKingulntiochur, That hauing loft himfelfe a hunting, hee lighted vpona Cottage where were acompanie offhepheards andasking them being at fupper, What the world faidof the King and his Minif ors ? TheKing (laid they) hath the report of agoodhonef}gentleman, but that the State was. neuer worfe gouerned thannow,foritis feruedby the greedieft and the gripingelt Mi- niflers that were in the world : and when becamebackeagaine to Court,hetold thoff- that were about him ; Since" hit wokepoffeflion of this my Kingdome, I neuer heardthe truthof things till yefterday. Amongftfourehundred Pro- phets, which Ahab confulted, onely heemet with one that would not lye vnto him, and the king hatedhim for telling him the truth. Saint Ambrofecalls the Pallace, Baf1ca, deriving it from the Bafliske, which kills with it's looke. Of this creature LBlian faith, That he vomiteth forth his poyfon vpon a flone : And it fits well for Peter, whom our SauiourChrift termed Petram ; vpon whom the diueil (whom theScripture ailes a Bafiliske) vomited foorth his poyfon. Our Sauiour Chria receivedmuch kindneffe and courtefie in the houfe of (Martha, ofZacheus, and the Pharifee ; but inNerods Pallacethey made a foole ofhim ; In that of Mat, they whipt him, and crowned him with thornes ; and in that of Caiphas he received fomany affronts , that God onely knower whattheywere : according to that which Aauidfaid inhis name, Tu f is impropirummum,& con- fufonemmeans. The thirdoccafionwas, Thatbee would enter into the Pallace, bybeing brought in bythe handsofawoman. Saint Bernardfaith, Si infadelitasintrat,quid mirumjiinfideliteragar? Maximus Tirronenfs faith , That Peters finne was much like vn-o that ofAdam : there beingimployed inbothofthem,a man,a woman, and adiuell. Adamhad a warning not to eate,Peternotto denie : Eue was the oc- cafion that Adam didgate ; and cayphas maid.feruant thatPeter did denie. In a word, a woman was the inarumenrof all our deaths, and threw downe to the ground thofe two CoIumbsand pillarsoftheworld : butPeters tall was thefou- ler,
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