F :, jaE(.d.s. z Tini . .z6. t P10.2-5 9. fMat. ro.r f. r Iar:7.t.ZL u Rotf.o.r4. Hellarm. de Lai- iQ,lib. cap.zt. 540 CHAP.5. d 1nExpafztion vfron the /'ir/t VER 2._ mictsm nif ignorantem. In experience,the more ignorant and graceletie, the morecontemptuous towards preach- ing; Poore foules, that fee not, how =finable and bitter a thing it tr, to liue in date P of ignorance and difobedi. ence ! The Lord in mercy giue them eyes to fee, hearts to vfe meanes to q come cut of them are of the Deuir. To clofevp all, let. nice adde a reafonor two, to fer edge on the edhorration. Fitti, confider how the con - t.:napt of this ordinance, makes all other our feruice of God abominable ; yea, curfeth all other meanes unto vs: tYho fo tur net h his tare from hearing the Lax ,euen his pray - er bee abominable. Secondly, let not that cenfure palled by our Sauiourvpon Contemners, be forgotten; equalling this (inne with the crying finnes of Sodome, and proreflirg, that the damnation of 1 Sodomites /hall be more tolerable,than that of defperate contemners. Thirdly, remember that fweer reafon of Saint James, exhorting to reeeiue the Word with meekn elk ; It it table,he faith, to face your foules. I adde more out of Paul, it is u ne- ceff ary to the fauing of jour Joules ; fo neceffary,that with- out ir, none arc ordinarily faued. VERS. 2I. Proue all things, hold faß that which irgood. He former Precept inioyned diligencein hearing: here are prefcribed.Firft,difcre- tion in iudging. Secondly,conftancy in retaining what vpon trial (hall be found currant. `Prone all things.The queftion here is, whom this Prefcript concernes; there be that limit it to Bi(hops and Paffors of the Church : and fuch only, as they (hail for that pupae offociateto themfelues. Wee may not thinke this Prefcrrpt extended to Laicks, as if the
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