CHAP,z,><5, ACommostarie vpontbe 538 beeing formerly prooued, wewill onely notea threefold vfe of it. Ramaa. Pita, to confute thePopifh teachers, whohaue deuifed another way to free rhemfeluesfrom the contempt of the layrie; namely,by inuefling their Bithopsand Clergy into chill! authoritie andMagifiracie : by fur- nifhing themwithwealth and abundance, yea fuperfluitieof Rate, and pompe : by diflinguithing them fromother men by Orange £afhions of appareil, mytres,crofier Raues, rings, and babies; that ifTitus had been fuch a Bishop, this had beene aneedleffe precept: for whodurli haue defpifed him,but he fhould Toone haue heard ofhim? But the word tea- cheth, that it is no politike deuife that maintaineth the eflimation of a Minifierorminifierie; but the holy carriage bothof thedoéirine and hues of theMinitiers: euen as theApoflleallo fpeakethof Deacons,that byminiflringwell, theyget themfelaessgooddegree, and great liberty inthe faith. Secondly, this ground laiethheauy things to the chargeof the idol- minifierie, who for any giftsof teaching, are manyof them inferiour to boyes andgirles of f^_auen yeares old : and wofull it is to thinke, how many places are ferued, or flarued rather with Ieroboams priefis , who were raked out of the bafcR of men, the iufi fübietìs ofreproach and contempt : Andothers theTonnes of Eli, who by the wickednefle, and diffolutnes of their courfes,nor only flinke themfelues,burmake the fer. nice, andworfhip, and wordofGod, to beabhorred : men miflake their tnark,when they fay,that it is often preaching which maketh it defpifed; but becaufe it is fo often preached by fuch loudmen,it loofeth thegrace and power of it in theheartsof men. Thirdly, when men thus teach, and thus huepurely and innocently, andyet aredefpifed,let themnot thinke it Rrange, nor be difcouragéd: for they baue done their dulie, and taken the right courte toget reue- renceand authoritie: Let men at their peril! now defpilè thcm,theLord will not refufe tohonour them; and if they cannot inearth, yet are they lure to fhine inheauen. And thus by the aflifianceof God, hauewee abfoiued this fecond Chapter :.ço himbe therefore pralle fox euer. Amen.. C H A P.
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