256 A Commextary upon the Gqel Chap,7, men,&c. For no caufe was known, why they tliould ufe fuch in- dignation againft him more then the reft, but that it is written, With meafure ye meat, it !ball be meafured to jan again: ibid. ill z. B. Ridlzr told StevenWiachefter, that it was the hand of God that he was now in prifon, becaufe he-had fo troubled others inhis time. And as he had inflamed fo many good Martyrs, fo hedied miferably of an inflamation, that caufed him to thrall out his Ibid.,i a ::. tongue all fwoln and black, as Archb. flrundrll had died before him. The Archbifhop ofToures made fuit for the ereetionofa -Court, called Chambre Ardent, wherein to condemn the Pro. teflants to the fire. He wasafterward ftriken with a difeafe called tbi 1. a9 , Thefire of God,which began at his feet, and fo afcended upward, that hecanted one member after another to be cut off, and to died miferably. And there is mentionmade ofone Chriftopher an un- merciful! Courtier, who fuffering a poor Lazar to die in a ditch Ibid. 1907. by him, did afterwards perifh himfelf in a ditch. To return to -the prefentpuipofe, Laurentius Yalta cenfured all that wrote before hits, Erafmus comes after, and centures him as much: Bezel lindes as many faults with Erafineu, andnot without caufe, as appearech by that one pafiage among many in his An- notations on Rom.7.a1. I finde thenalaw, that When I would doegood, evil is'prefent with me; Erafineu Originem femur, fcripfit Paulumhoc Sermone balbutire,quúm ipfepotiies ineptiat. Scalig de re Scaliger the Hypercritick gives this abfurd and unmannerly Port csp 16, cenfure ; Gothi bellaca, Scoti non mints, Aug/i perfidi, inflatí, feri, contemptoris, ftolidi,.mentes, inertes,inhofpitales, immanet. The Gothes are bealts, fo are the Scots. Englifbmen are perfi- dious, proud, fierce, foolifh, mad-mete,flow-bellies, inhofpitall, barbarous. Another comes after him, and faith, His bolt, you ftrytina Ge r fee is loonfhot, and fo you may happily gueffc at the quality of l' g sb " the Archer. T.citus tpeaks reproachfully of both Jews and Chri- furEim :ef loans; and is paid his own as well, both by Tertullian and Lip. ,,,nunf f rues. Ifmen fuffer in their good names,they may thank themfelves, antew ; moflly. Contempt is a thing that mans rature is molt impatient rertulftanus of: thole that are given to flight and cenlure others, are punifhed mendaciprun with the common .hatted of all. Imitation and retaliation arein to<,uui o un all men naturally, as we rraa fee in every childe. And that of Sa- appefat. Yr Y Y lemon is in this fente foundmolt tine; As in water faceanfwer- eth to face ; fo dotb the heart of a man ro a man. None are lo íriunncd and centered, as thole that are molt cenforious. The places
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