by the Wells Gods mercy in thewort times; in tholeages wherin the Church was moll oppreffed , yet many have yeelded themfelves unto Chrifi. Thewemin was with Childe,and was delivered even whenthe Dragon didperficateher, Revel. 13.1.4. and even then God found out, in the vvilderneffe a place ofrefuge defence, and feeding for hisChurch. As in tholecruell times ofArriarlifint when heretichad invaded theworld, and in thofe blinde and miferable ageswherin Satanwas loofed,God fill furred np fome notable infiruments by whom hee did defend his truth, and amongft whom hee did preferve his Church, though they were driven into folitaryplaces, andforced to avoid theaffernblies ofHereticall and An- tichriflianTeachers. Wee learne likewife not to cenfure perfons,places or times ; God had feven thoufand inifrael whenEfias thought nonebut himfelfe had been left, all arenot alike venturous or confident of their tirength. Nseedemus came to Chrifl by night, and yet even then Chrifl didnot mica him. Therefore we muffnot prefently cenfureour neighbours ascold or dead , ifthey dircover not imme- diatly the fame meafureofcourageand publikefloutneffe in the profeffion ofChrill with our felves; fome men are by nature moreretied, filene,unfociable,unaaive men : fomeby the engagementoftheir places, perfons,and cal- lings wherein they arc of more publike and ncceffary ufe in the Church, are put upon moreabundant caution andeircumfpeaion in the moderatecarriage of them- felves than other men. Paul was of hinfelfe very zea. haus and, earnefi inthat great confufion,when Gains and Ariflarchuu werehaled into the theater , to have gone in unto thepeople in that their outrage and dillemper; but the wifedome oftheDifciples,and fomeofhis chiefe friends is herin commended,thar they fent unto him&- I firing him that hee would not adventure into the rhea- ter,and that theyfuffered himnot, Alr 9.3O Bb 31at isa grave 370 R s E 3 . Hieronynnts Contr. Luciti- rianos.Vincen. rim Yrinenfis inConmonito- r:o.
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