Chap.6. according lb Sr M A T T H B Vi. 241 lofopher, howhe couldcontemplate high things, Pith he had no books? Wifely anfwcred, That he had the whole world for his book, ready open at all times, and in all places, and that therein he could read things divine and heavenly. A Bee can fuck honey out ofa flower, that a flic cannot do. Our Saviour could have pointed us to our firít parents clothed, and Elica fed, the Ifrael- itee both fedand clothed extraordinarily by God in the wilder- ,neffa. Never Prince wasfo ferved in his greate(t pomp, ; not So.. lomon in all his royalty, as they. But becaufe all men have not faith to believe that miracles (hall be wrought for them, he fend- eth us to thefe more ordinary, and more catie intlances of Gods bountiful( and provident care ofbirds and fillies ; that in them (as in fo many optickglattes) we may fee Gods infinite goodnes, and be confident. Anton. Erem. upad Augua. deootl Clrig, Lb . r, (D Ni. ceph.lib.,c. to They toilnot, neither do they 33i92.] This is the fluggards polie, ANC tagoyanr Hownuch better that Emperour who took for his Motto, La- neq,nent s boremeu : Let us bedoing. Godmade not man to play, as he severw'ro p. bath done Leviathan, but commandeth him to fwcat out his li- ving. This was at fir(} Gods ordinance in pacadifc, that his Rom- houfe fhould be his work-houfe, his pleafure, his task. Af- ter the fall, it was enjoyned as a punifhment. So that now man is born to travel, and mull labour withhis own handy, neither eating ß"n'3 r9' -thebreadofidleneffe, nor drinking the wineofvielence. That Monk Éob5,7, that lahourcthnot with his hands, is a thief, faith an Ancient : H ¡l,r¢paa , Is a body-loufe, lucking theblood of others, faith a Xeotericlt,: Ezek, g. r &, he(ball diein his iniquity, faith God, becaufehe hath not done good Nic ftYu efl amonghie people, He buried himfelf'alive, as th ;t Vacia in Seneca, 1 ás446 he (hall be buried with theburiall of an ffe, when he is dead : jct. zt, rg. he (hall hear, O thou wickedandfiot P1fervant, when he rifeth a- trlat.as,a6, gain at the latlday. God puts no drff.rence between Nequanz, and Aleguaquam, an idie, and an evil fervaut. This made M.CaI- vinanfwcr his friends with fume indignation , when they ad- monifhed him, for his healths-fake, to forbear fudying hard, id ? Vukis ut Dominua veniens me otiafi » inveniret ? Beza invita What? Would you that Christ whenhe commaeth (hould finde Ca,vine me idle ? Vale 29 Andyet Ifayunto you, that even Solomon in all his glory.] Inall his bravery, which ri®ubtl:ffe was very great, in the day of his efooufals, efpeeTally, when hie mother crownedhim, Cant. 3.11. Heroda cloth offilver did fo dazle the peoples eyes in a Suns R thine
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