What is thy Belo"Ped,&c. 313 · .Catching~' like thofeof the Scribesand Stu.•XIII. Fhariftes unto Chrifr, to infiance in that of Pilat, Ioh.tB.j s. j WhAt is truth~ when Chrift h:1d told him the .truth, Whtit is trrtth (faith he) in afcornfull pro– phanemanner,as indeed prophane fpirits cannot heue favoury words, but they tmne 1 hem off with fcornc,what is truth <1 This here in the T tXt is not fuch, but a~dlion tending to further re– folutionand farisfattion,.What is thy Belovedmore thenAnother Beloved? Firfi ofall obfcrve,That thdeofthe Church here were fiirred up hy the examp~cs of other members of the Church to be inquificiveafter Chrift, fo tobe fatisfied. Hence obferve, That 0/:Jferv. there is awondrom for&e in the examplesof(hri.fti. ans to flirr-e up one another. Wcfee here when the Church was ftcke rflove, the other part of the members began to thinke what is the rcafon the Church is fo earne!l: to fee kcafter Chrifl:, there is fome excellency fure in him; for, wifemen doe notufogrea{motions in little matters, great things a.re carriedwithgreat movings;weufe not to fiirre up tragedies for trifles, to make mountainesof niole-hils,the endeavours and carriages of great perfons that be wife, judicious and ho)y, are an– fwerahletothe nature of things. And indeed the Church judgeth aright in this; then fee the force of good example, any man that hath hi wits about him, when he fees other ferious, earnefi and carefull about a thing whereof for the pre~ent he can fee no reafon (efpecially if they havepartsequall or fuperiour to himfelfe) will ( reafon thus pref<:ntly. ·What . . I .
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