C H A P.3. Eprfile to therheffalonians. V E x.2. 225 all our departments. Prudence, I meane not furceafing feafonable performance of dutie, which coil Ieremie fo b much vnreft: but cautionatenef e, of laying open our felues to iufl quarrels of the contentions: a of c calling our pearles to fwine : 3 of d committing our felues to ouer- inward familiarity of fuck as haue not approued them- felues faithful!. The qualifie of men thus malicioufly bent aggainfl Mi- ni ters, efpecially deferues our notice : áro ror, oartpot. âTOmos : Abfurd fellowes, compact of meere incongrui- ties; folecifing continually in opinion, fpeech, action, whole life. Our Englifh renders vnreafonable ; whither they meane them, men whom no reafon will fatisfie ; or as Teter and lude defcribes them, meere fenfitalifls, bruits, led with humour or fenfe againfl all reafon ; cfpeaking e- trill, faith Peter, of things they vnders`ì<and not: as lude, what they f know naturally, therein corrupting themfelues. Saint Paul fomewhere faith ofthem they are g dlra9oacQ,utivot Toyver; and imputes to them no leffe then franticke de. mency. Such vfually are the oppofstes of foundeft li'finiflers. Ieremie heauily bemones himfelfe of fuch Aduerfaries; himfelfe a man that had n9 dealings with any h yet curfed of emery one. The filuer -Smith at Ephefus made a head of fuch good fellowes ; voicing it as i +rongly as their Cap - taine againfl the Apofile, yet, for the more part, i not know- i As 19.3a. ing zrhy they were come together. A great Politician was he among(i this abfurd Crue, who could fay, this k way is k Ads zs.aa. emery where fpokgn againft'. Wifer Reafons of oppo- fing can few giue, that make infurre6lion againfi their Miniflers. Their fecond Rile is vovwçol; we may interpret after the Grammer Etymon ; men defirous of trouble, procuring it to others, of jangling difpofition ; whole life is, as of Salamanders, in the fire of contention ; perhaps led with that rule, Neuters are worfl men in contentions, they loue to be in the brawle; but by their good will aiwaies fiding to the worfer part. Or whither, after common vfe of the word, we v der- Q. ae á tai4
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