Eprfleof .5. PaultoTitus. wi th ferpentine fubtiltie, watchingall aduantages to depkauetheir bell aótions,vndertakenwith belt deliberation, and on thebelt ground. s. In regard of the Gofpel, which the aduerfary is ready to blafpheame, and fmite,and wound through their fides. 3.1n refpe6 of thole that are without, that theyPeeing the wifedome of God in the courfe of their doótrine and h.ues,may thereby bewonne to the loueof the truth , Col. 4.3Now this wifdom is not flefhly pollicie as makethmen idle lookers on,forfeareofdanger, but to wake circumfpecîly, (till going on in the good way oflife, and not rufhing headlong, but dllcreetly looking to euery fteppe:which Salomon calleth thepanderingof thepalms. Vfe. r. Let Minihers Peeing they haue fo many eies vpon thent,pray for vndetfianding heares, and teeing they naturally want this wifdome let them aske it ofGod, that it may as Salomon faith ,mahetheir faces to /tine cuff), where: (hewing wifedome as well as zeale iu reproofes , cen- Cures , in (peaking of euents in theChurch, and Land : and the rather, Peeingeuen inGods caufes, we maynot be coo forward. Good Helier in her warmeft loue to her Celle andpeople whowere Gods people , all ofthem fold to the fword, may not yet rafhly fdep to Ahafhuerofh, be- fore the had conlideredof the rigour of the law, which was lure co be fo much themore feuerely execuced,by howmuch it was more commo- diousfor theKings fafetie; alto whether thewas in fauour and grace, not hauing beetle called of 3o. dales: and elpecially the and herpeople had fafied &praied,end confulted wich the Lord. Nay more,Petcr mutt not cattilydraw his iword,and ftrìke to faueChritts own life: two wor- thyexamples for our imitation. 2. People mutt allo commend their Minihers to the Lords direéhion,.. and whofoeuer (-land ingood caufes, that the Lord who is rich in wife- dome,would glue them wifedome in all things. Nowwe come to the partsof the verles, and lieft of the preface vn- to the teilimony. Wherein r. it is to be enquired who is meant , by this Prophet? Anf. By common content the Apoftle meanech episnenides an heathen msn,and a profane Poet, who in one ofhis bookes hath this hexameter. ,well. But why doch Paul call him a Prophet ? Anf. Some thinke him fo called onely by a generali acceptation of the word Pro - phet,which as well fignifieth a publike declarer oftome truth paft or pre- feat, as of Come to come; and to heopenly taught the truth,perfwading to venue,anddehortiug fromvice. Others thinke the Apoftle calleth him fo ironically, or in skorne , one whowas a Prophet fit enough for fuch a people. Others becaufe he was fo in the reputation andaccount of the people, who as theother Heathen werewont to afctibe Tome di- uinitieunto their Sourhfayers,and called them diuiners , yea the inter- preters (wHAP.I.22. a3S a 3 Eph.s.ts. Prou,;.a6. Hcit,4 ta. 'VhyEpimeni. des is called Prophcr. wepixp.v,umr. erPípp,w.pauan narro, aó9s7.y,
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