Chap. i®. aoeerdi»Z to S r Mvt AT T x /VT. 335 ag;ainit theirfathers, and brothers againft brothers, 'and eveswo_ Hitt. or Cou í; men tookup armsonboth ides,fordefenceof their religion.This is ®t rive, Fal, theeße& of the Gofpel cfpeace,but by accident. 6474 4ndthefather the childe] As Philip K. ofSpain; who Paid he had rather have no fubjects then hereticks, as he called them : And,out of abloudy zeal, fuffered his eldeft fon Charles to bemur- Ilieron.C:aina. dered by the cruel Inquifition, becaufe he feemed to favour the Pro- teftant -fide. Verfe 22. end yeJball be bared.] limed perinde crimine in- cendijquam odiohssnoanigenericconviCtiAnt, faith Tacitus of thole poor Chriftians, that by Nero werehaled to death for let- ting the City of Rome on fire, which was done byhimfelf. Ter- Tertull. sat tukian cellech us, that their name, and not their-crime was punifh- ,epoiog. ed in Chriftians. So Luther complaineth that there was in his Nahum .lfagi. dayes no crime comparable to thar,ofprofeflïng the Gofpel. tints bodiè par But he that endureth to the end j Apoftacy loofah the things est bust rat p y g juasnao acri. that it bathwroughr,t ah.s. Non goat-antler in Chriftianis ini- leg°o,tc, Evan - tia,fed finis, faith Hierom.It is the evening that crowneth theday, getioa Dee and the laft fcene that commends the enterlude, confiteri.Luth. Verfe 23. Flee ye intoanother.] That is,make all the hafte that Epij adEp,f,. Sambeniem. ; may be, as Cant.$. tq. Fuge, fuze Brenti, cité, citisu,citi/me, Much Adam fo friendly did a Senatour of Hala advife Brentires. He did fo, in vitaBrent.; and thereby faved hislife. There was oneLaremouth, Chaplain to Lady Anneof Cleve, a Scótch man, towhom in prifon it was faid,as he thought,Jrife,andgo thy wayes. Wheretowhen he gave no great heed at firft,the feccnd"timeit was fo Paid. Upon this, as he tell to hisprayers, it was Paid the third time likewife tohim : which was half an hour after. So he arifìngupon the fame, im- rnediatly apeece of the prifon wallfell down ; and as the Officers ..'Fi, ani lion, came in at the cuter gateof theprifon, he leaping over the ditch fol"1345. efcaped. And in the way meeting a certain beggar, changed his 'coat with him, andcoming to the lea-thore,where he found a vet- fel ready to go over, was taken in, andefcaped the fearch, which was ftraicly laid for him,all the countrey over. Tortullian was L >'b. de Na too rigid in condemning all knnde ofHight in time-of perfecution. ib: s: ría Te ,(Ball not have Qen over the cities of Ifrael ] This is another comfort to the Apoftles and their fucceflors, that though forced CO flee from city to city, yet they shall gill finde harbour, and daces ofemplo) menr. They (hall not have finished, that is taught and converted all the cities of Gods //had, both according to the fl fh, a and 11.1111111111mor
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