CH6P.3.I. t .! Connmentarievpon the 588 there are fewe ofour nobles whom Cofferus bath not lately malicioufly flandered : the praclife among them I acknowledge common : but the thingamongvs tobe lamented is, that both that and other fuch bookes are focommon. Satan many a. This fubieetion is therather cobe vrgedupon, all, becaufe the de- waies asketh null feeketh by all his cunning andpower toweaken this ordinance,and to ordinance is bring it intocontempt; which is euidenr in that mendare not take fuch ;dinan into coa curet. libertie of(peachagaina the fupreame andhighea , yet how ordinary is it for men, to waighchemfelues and their worthineffe with chofechat are Cent from the higher ? yea and lticke not to makeodious compari- fonswith chem,that lay his-officeaide,he is as good andbetter then he; but the deuill hath now the hold hewould haue; for while the eie is vp- on the perfon,and not vpon theplace, neppeth in this equafitie;and this equality fhakethofffubiebtion before he come to fuch teartnes of defi- ance.Others break out into fpeaches befeerning the authors,euen Chore and his company,rather thenany Chriaian,Te take toomoochvponyouMo- Numb,16.I. fir andAaron,whenfoeuer the.magiarateadminis)reth not according to their minds;and let the Maginrate whenhe will fec himfelfe to reforme I the congregation,as Mofesdid,this corruptionof mens hearts will not long liehid:which beeing fo great,and Satans malice no lef e,Minihers mua the rather be much andoften in this dos rine, as Titus was here commanded. Readie to euerlegoodworke: ] verf, z. That theyfpeake euill ofno man, that they h nofighters,but fofr,(hewingall meekeneffeonto all men. Nowwe come with the Apoalevnto the fecund fort ofchofe gene- ral] duties which are required ofeucry Chriaian:and thefe be the mutu- all duties one towards another, the whichwe may benconceive in this order. t.generally propounded in there words , ready to emerygoodworke: which Iknow forne refiraine unto the cheerefull performing oftheMa- ginrats lawfull cómands,to the confirming of which fettleperhaps that needles copulatiue (and) is inferted into our Englifh, notfound in the Creeke text. But the precept is entire of it felfe, and feuerall from the other before:andas I take it both parallel unto that general! phrafe,cap. 2.T4.x.ealoxeofgoodworkes: and contrarie to that cap. t.t6.reprobate. Kurt <hatem. to coterie goodworke. Secondly, morefpecially, both a. by remoouall ofthe lets ofconcord and loue, which are two , f eaking. z. filth. 201 Bíosr. ringor quarrelling. z. by entertaining filch verrues as are the nurfes andcheri(hers of Chriaian concord amonga men;ofwhich the Apoale namech twoofthe principal(. The forwer,is Chriaian equitie,which ca- rieth theminde equally and indifferently,freeing it frompaflion & per- tur-
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