EpifgleofS. PohltoTllrm. IiHAP.2.I2s as their heremites, anchorites, &c. that goe barefoote, pine and impri- 465 foe themfelues,lieon the ground,couer their skinnes with fackecloath, &c. are they not fuch as the former,looking for heauenas a reward for the firitineffeoftheir hues ? doe they not then ( as one Philofopher Paid PlatoorDio. ofanother ) contcmnc the prideofthe world, but with morepride ? E- g`n" very fhewe ofhumilitic is not true mortification: for notonely theEpi- cureswho were fold over to pleafure,wereenemies to Paul , but thofe ilrait and feuere facts altoofthe Tythagorians and theSroicks did migh- tily oppofe him. Ina word, among what fort of men Both the lulls of AR'Y.18. pride,vncleannes, Epicurifine, andcouetoufneffe more raigne,then in the teachersofthat doctrine,theirMonks ,Prelacie,Cardinalls,andtheir father thePope himfelfe ? fo as the truth is cleare,chat onely true religi- on in which the fpirìt delighteth tomanifell himfelfe, is the teacher of true mortification. And that wefl'ouldlineMerl Now we are come to the fecond le(ron which the dottriine of grace Hsctria perpc. teacheth, namely, that fuch as entertain: it fhould lead their hues in the tunmedicare pratlife of three vertues,contrary to the former vitae of vngodlinej,Te and Hzc tni nt worldly luflr: the which as they are dire5ledeither againíl God , or our citz rrgui r'ndacus brethren, or our felues,fo the firll ofthefe prouideth againli the difor- . dered carriageofour felues,inrequiringfobrierie: the fecondcutteth off hateful' and vneaharitable lulls againll our brethren: in requiringinflice or right dealingman with man, Chritlian with Chriftian eipecialty: the third repreffeth impious andvngodly lolls, more diretlly againft God himfclfe,in requiringgodlineffe to Chine out in the lines of profefhors For all chef: three muff bepratttfed in the due circumllance oftime,euen in shit prefect world. Dottr. r. Thedotlrine of grace teacheth not only to abllaine from Doars"f grace tcaceohcth euill,but alto to doegood; and is the millris of true fanc`tificati,on in not onctyto both theparts of it, both the mortification of (inne,as alto quickning in ul13,baodc righceoufneffr.. For as it is in the lightning ofadarkehoufe,6rlldarke- .good, nefle mull glue place, and light muff lucceede ;.fo is it in the (hining of this light'of grace,the night mull paffe, and.then the daymull come:the olde man tuna be call off voish his lulls, and ;then the new: man put on. soPb4 xt,x; > *g. That the Gofpel is the teacherof both thefe, it appearech in the ende of Pauls conuerfion; who for this purpofe was appointed a miniller ofthe things he had heard and feene,, and fens to the Gentiles , that he might turn: thew from darkeneffc to light, and from the power of Satan veto Aa2e.18. Gad: and allo in the whole foopeof his dolrineaud ininiulerie,frow the firft to the iall,as himfelfeprofcífeth,that wháhe taught firft at Darnaf- `"' cus,theu at Ierufalein,after through all the roans of Iudea, and then to. alt
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