EpifYkofS. Pad toTitus. CHAR acknowledging the feafonabletime ofmy repentance, the ferpentin 253 Chriftian wifedome, the lambe and doue in Chriftian meekenes and in- nocencie: and thus refembling them , I neither (hall be nor accounteda beats, nor yetbe condemned by any of them. But if any loth to kaue hisbrutifhproperties will be a beaft flill and followe his luft,it is fit het fhould fee the ende ofhis way in one ofhispredeceffors,Prou.742.He goeth on us anoxe to theflanghter. Many fuch thinke and pretend they goe to heauen:but deceiue not thy (elk , no vncleane thing entreth within the gutes ofthat holy citie: thou{halt (land with thy fellowes without, Reu. 2 2. 15. Without (hall bedogges, andenchanters ,and whoremongers,and spur- e tberces,and idolaters, or whofoonerloueth or tnaketh lies : and one day (hall ftr.2aay. by experience teach tbee,that the bread ofch ildren belongeth not vnto dogges. Stowe bellies.] In chele words this people ofCretaarc by their Poet accufed ofha- ! y bituall idlenes, and intemperance : who howfoeuer to the duties either of the firfi or fecond table, they were as heauie, and flow as anybaile; yet in the feeding oftheinfelues,and followingEpicurus his trade fo di ligent,and inflant they were, aseuery man feerned rather to be a bellie' then aman: and therefore doth the Poet by an vball figure of (peach synachd.parru. thus expreffe them.And as this whole hexameter,fo much more was this part of it more frequent among theheathen , who were wont prouerbi-, ally tocall fuch perlons be!lies,as they lawaddidìed to idlenes , gorman- ? ßo Herod. dizing,and intemperance. Doilr. A life led in idlenes, anddelicacie is condemned both by the light ofnature, and of the Scriptures. Of the former there is good rea - rdtene, eon demned. lop, Peeing it is againti that order ofnature whichGod let in al hiscrea- tures at the fir(l, entry one o'c'which arc 1h11 vnwcariably employed ac- cording to their ñrfi inflitutions. Thecelefliall bodies (land not Rill but by miracle. In all inferiour bodily creatures ( if well ordered) there muff be there three things. a. An order ofthe parts , the fette may not (land vpon the fhoulders:for that is the place for the head. a. Apropor- tion of them ,or a fymmecry :.for the eyemay not be bigger then the head. g. A fun&ion of each of them: for euery oneof them mull haue force diflin& office which it muti diligently attendvino. 2. And if we lookevnto theLords icillisutloris with man, we (hall fee that this idle anddronifh kind oflife,was banifhed outófparadifeitfelfe, &fromthat innocent e(tate,to the preferuationofwhich all the creatures offred vp themfeluesto faue mans painesi and yet eoen then muff Adam dreffe the garden : thenwhen he wasa more abfolute Lord ouer all the earth, then any man euer lance was or is ouer any part of it , t might he not 1Me I Orderof oar nue. ordo partiúr 2. fymmetria. 3. funetio. Gods intliteti. on before the fait.
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