C riAY.Il6. L.4 Commentarie vpon the 3113 Iacob an Efau, making (hewof purchafing the blefftsg as ..ell as he: with the wheat dictatesmuff grow to the haruer+: the branne abided, with the meale till the boulcing : the fame net couereth good and bad fi(hes, andmuch filth is drawne along with the fill. Iudas lurketh in A& !e.30. Chrifls owne family. The purefl primitiuc Churches planted by the A- L' c i.rim..r. poflles,could not long continue a pure virgin . as all the Apolllcs fore - law sod forewarned :neithercan it bebut in thepeace of theChurch, as in a fwcec and rainy feafon,many weeds come vpand make a great flew among thegood hearbs: fo many thru(i then:feints into the profeffion, bringing with them 'thecares and loue of the world , whom the fir(i Why. funseof perfecution caufech towither, and anpeare to be themfelues. ! And although the Lordcould eafily & at once purge his flooreof them, yet in great wifedome he fuffreeth them: i .in rega=d of his owne glo- cy,that his holincffe might appeare in thedaily difcouering ofthemand purging his Church ; for he cannot abide that hypocrites (hould goe in the tale andaccount ofhis children :but one time or other, one way LG1i,10,5o or other,wriie fetnïhfied in all them that comenearehim: at which time his a glory alto fhineth out vetoothers in their Tuft iudgement. 2. In regard ofthe wicked,that they (hould the more Rumbleat the truth by reafon of fomehypocrites amongprofeffors.3.In regard ofthegodly,that they íhould partly beexerciled by thismeanes,and partlydriuen toexamine what truth is in them. 4.In refpcdof the truth it (elfe, which getteth Come teflimony hence,asChrifl on the cro(feby thevery titleof his ene- mies,affirming that he was theKingof the Iewes. Trie chineow, foondnes, Vfe. i. Let cucry man tryhimfelfe,and the foundnes ofthehearr;he is not a Iewe that is one without,and therefore everyman had neede lay a good groundofhis faith & religion: hebeginneth wel that beginneth in the truth. The outward profNTton may ioyne thee to theChurch in- deed, w hich very thing deceiuethmany, who conceiue that becaufewe haue changed themattins intopreaching , and the matte into the Lords table, therefore they cannot but be of the Church : but the time will comewhich (hal feparate thofe,whom now the bare profe(lion ioineth: t.utsyte, when two (hall be in ahoule, two in the field yea two in a bed where- of the one (hall be takcn,and theother refufed; one taken like Ruth go- ing on to Iudah, another likeOrpah going back toMoab: when the fan fhall feparate wheat fromchaffe,the one to the garner the other to the burning : when the fheepheard (hall deuide the (beep from the goats which now grate together,hue together, feede together, are folded to- gcther,theoneco the tight hand, the other to his left. Let not thy profefíion deceiue thee , for many hypocritesare in the bofome of the Church. 2. Let
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