332 dicá`y,4 .topelt or gore others (as the word here fignifies, ) fo forferpentine fubtilty too, that we raft not our [elves upon needlefle dangers. The Roman rule was, nec ßigere,necfegtsi, Chriftianitycalleth us not to aweak fimplicity;but allowes us as muchof the ferpent as ofthe dove. The dove without the ferpent is eafily caught : the ferpent,without the dove flings deadly. Religion without policy is teo fimi°1e tobe fafe : Policy without Religion is too fiable to begood. Their matchmakes themfelves tecure, and many happy, A ferpents eye is a fingular ornament in a doves head. Harmleffe ar doves] That neither provoke the hawke, nor ,projet revenge : but whenpurfued, they fave themfelves, if they 'Fe7Ie coluniba can by flighr,not by fight. Sometimes they fit in their dove- curcr, roffra cotes, and fee their netts deftroyed, their young ones taken away, nark cerdit, andkilled before their eyes : neitherever do they offer to refcue or a gurr revenge which all other fouls doe feem in fome fort to doe. Pojffaet iao- egos, ara Verfe 17. Bot beware ofmen ] Abfurd and wickedmen,faith eina !e ir. Paul, bruiciih men, skilfull to ddtroy, faith the Prophet, Men- + Met 3-z. eaters,faith the Pfalinift, Cannibals,that make no more conscience Ez' k. Z L , tomil-chiefGods people, then to eat a meals meat when they are lt.l>a4.4. hungry. Thefè be thole Lycranthropi, thole wolves mentioned in the former verte. There are thole inankinde men, that St Paul .met with at Ephefias, r Cor.i S.3a. He fought with beafts after the manner of men, that is (as tome interpret ìt) men fought with him, after the manner ofbeafts. Such a man was that tnrìnfter of Millain in Bodin: de Repiab. Such were the Primitive Perfe- cutouts, and fuch are the PfeudoCatholicks of thefe times. A .4ff.ara1 Min. Dutch -woman they buried alive for religion , with thorns un. fol.8 ìs. -der her. Another they fhamef ully detìled in the fight of her huf- band, and then forced her todraw a ¡Word, and give her husband a deadly wound, her hands beingordered by them. The Townof lbid.I95 s. Barre in France being taken by the Papifts, all kindeofcruelty was thereufed. Children were cut up, the guts and hearts of tome of them pulled out, which in rage they gnawed with their teeth. Ibid.. The frafians which ferved the King, did for hatred of religion break forth into filch fury, that they did rip up a living childe, and took his liver, beingas yet red hor, and eat it as meat. john Bur- geo1us Prífidenc of Thron, an old man, being fufpetted to be a Proteltanr, and having bought his life with agreat tomme ofmo- ney, was notwithttandmug taken and beaten cruelly with clubs and ;staves. And being ftript ofhis clothes, was brought to the bank of ahe A Commentary upon the Gofpel Chap.'o.
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