158 C H A. 2. An ExpoPion vpon thefecond V P$.to Vfe. ° Mit.xj.i ç. on under T oam. 2. Chron. 11. r4.. 16. 4 But for the people of our Churches, daily reúolting to Rome, how bath God long wooed them to entertaine into their loue his pretious truth? and they would not : that they of all men moll iuflly perifh, fo palpable is their reiecßion; I lay not oftruth only, but of loue of truth ten- dered to their foules. But of ['ado def ifers oftruth is compaEled the body of the Romilb Synagogue. Amongfl the many Centones ofreuol- ters to Poperie, name mee the man who euer euidenced zeale for the maintenance,and propagation of the d o6lrine taught in our Churches ; oppofed not rather the procee- dings; triumphed not in the difgrace of. the Gofpe!, and made a mocke of the count ll of tholepoore,{hat entertained it, and fet their hearts to feeke after the Lord. I haue knowne many; force, a little familiarly. Amongfl all to me knowne, I cannot minde one, in whom I ewer law life or power of godlinefe : but epicures, fenfualifls , vncleane, profane perlens ; or if there bee almoll any other worfe thing, contrary to wholefome doElrine which is according to godlineffe, men, not onely themfelues praaifing fuch things, m but 'leafing themfelues, and reioycing in them that doe them. And is not the motiue firong, to embrace Poperie ? their vaine vaunt of fomany traduced to their partie, finte his Maieflies entring the Kingdome? powerful! mull that Doebine needes bee, that in fo few yeeres preuailes with fo Many thoufands. Refp. i Yet Thomas could minde them, that in that of Moamed, is preualence no lefl'e, through the fitting it bath had to voluptuoufheffe of fen. fúail nature. z And whom, but fenfuallifis, and carnall gofpellers, haue they prevailed withal!? What one man (name him, if they can) heartily af£etled to our Religion, and truely it? Oh maruellous efficacie of Popifh doCtrine,traducing men from prophanenefl to fuperiiti- on, from godleffe contempt of pietie, to impious idolatrie, making their Profelites" two fold more the children of Hell: or rather : Oh full iudgement of God, giuing ouer men not
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