C x AP.4. Epifile to theTheffllesians. V E x.9. 299 are not. This pious Rhetorique will fee ground forcom- mendation. Secondly, the flatterers aime in commenda- tion,is his owne commodity. Thefe heauenly Orators therefore inunuate, that they may lead on the people to "conflancy in good duties. Like prudence is requifte in vs, to prouoke to holy du- ties ;take notice of,and commend the good that is in any; thou knoweft not what heartning prudent commen- dation may be vnto him. The Lord himfelfe lets palle no good thing in any, though clouded with infirmities, without laudatory notice of it. See Apoc.z.& 3. The harihnelle of many in their cenfures, readier to vilifie the befi things,then to couer their imperteftions 5 how many hath it kept from entertaining holy courfes If any be for the prefent alien,though nor without appa- rent hope of reclaiming, he is flraighrwayes tenured, as another Etmas, r enemy to algoodnefq"e, and child of the I Nis Deui/l. Yea, where Charity cannot but difèerne Seeds and beginnings of Grace, except they haue prefently at- tained the perfeftion of others, all is as nothing. Bur, if by infirmity any haue fallen, though but in a particular, all his former righteouthetpe mutt be forgo:ten, and in therm he bath done, or not done, but is fancied to haue commirted,he mull dye to our good opinion. Learne we to ackMowledge and cherith by comanenb dation,the f malleft good things in any : we know not howwe may preuaile to lead on toperf tition ;it is Da rail to all m:n to bee led with praif e : And Gods Spirit tempering himfelfe to our natural! inclination, forgot not m by th t argument to perfwade to holinef i e. i,m l'bilijrç.8. For ye are taught of God tolene. Thereat, =, why hee is fo (paring in prcfïtng this maine parr of S ^nfitÿ, is here lnbioyned 5 Becaufe they were taught of God'to loue one another ; which alto he euidenceth by their taf 5 they did, it to the brethren in Macea'onia. The inference of EnrheFsrs,and inch like Phanaricall fpirits
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