C H A P. 2. An Expotion upon the fecond V a R. 8. 4 That by theft: beginnings of forrowes themfelues, if poll ble, might be brought to repenteni:e : fee rtlpoc.2. ai. q There is a fecret infinuation of fpiricuall Iudgement furthered hereby; while they thorow indignation at the wrath, and wan hope to recouer, grow more obdurate in mill. 6 Their lafi vengeance aggravated by this occafion ; becaufe thofe i hypocrites call nor, no not when God bids them. The meanes of his confuming : the breath ofthe Lords mouth : that force interpret, the bare command of Chrifi, without any tninifterie of man : others metaphorically to denote, how eafily the Lord shall worke it ; folo flatu on , if he but blow vpon him he is confumed. Rather thus faith Caietane,Spiritu Sermonic éuangelici&c.the preaching of the Gofpe!!; called by the Prophet, the rod of his mouth, the fpiritof his lips, Ifai r t.4. Agreeing whereto is that of Saint Johns Angell, hawing the eternal' go /ell to preach; and thereby to reduce the prophane and fuperftitious world bewitched by Antichritt, to the true feare andpure worlhip of God : fee eAlpoc. t 4,6,7. Euents accord it. Not with sword or fpeare, but with this k weapon of our war- fare, bath the Lord demoliflied the prong holds of eslnti chrifl; thofe high things exalted againf the obedience of Chrifi. Read Hiftorie of Luther in Sleiden. Congruitie of the infirument you Bally difcerne, when you confider the maine pillars of Popifh Religion to be z Ignorance, and 2 Errour; eafely, as miffs, vanifhing, when but the beanies of Truths light appeare to the world. Oh the hypocritical! pretenfes of their concealing Scrip - tures from notice ofthe people; they are 1 holy and pearles, mu/? not be hazarded to contempt of fwine : difficult and ob- fcHre; them unlearned and vnflable may pervert them to their owne de/?ruëlion. But out vpon thofe blafphemies, they are hellifh; the Scriptures a nofe of waxe, a Lesbian Rule, a dumbe Iudge, Inkie Diuinitie : Spake Peter thus, your pretended pr edecefí'our in the Popedome ? 2 Truth
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