Chap.to. according ts St MA r r is EVT. 337 ille maledicere, 6-- ego contemnere, Paidhe inTacitus. IfI cannot be matter of another mans tongue, yet I can beofmineown eares. Dion writes of Severna, that he was careful" of' what he fhould do, but careleór of what he fhould hear. Do well, and hear ill, is written upon heaven gates, faid that Martyr. Ill mens mouthes 7T' zrTæxTs° are as open fepulchres, faith David, wherein good mens names are ' ""`"' often buried : but the comfort is, there (hall bea re:urredionat- 40yossocs1,1;0.00 vt ell of names as ofbodies, at the lift day. For there is nothing hid, that Jhall notbe known] q.d. Deal not unfaithfully in the ministry : conceal not the truth inunrighte- ou!nes,betraynot the caute of God by a cowardly filence. For ( whatfoever youmay plaufibly plead and pretend for your falle- play) all (bailout at length : andwell it (hall appear to the world, that you ferved not the Lord Chrift, but your own turnesupon Chrift : and, fo your tèlves might (leep in a whole skin, let what would become of his caute and kingdome. Fearfill men are the fidt in thatblack bill, Reve,zt.8. And God equally hateth the ti- morous as the treachercus. Verle 27. What I tell you in darVeneffe, &c. ] q.d. See that ye bevaliant and violent for the truth : declareunto the world all the couníel of' God, which you have therefore learned in private that ye may teach in publike.; not fearing any colours,much leflc f e.ling ti ose,;,.a.ar primyour colours, Heb.io.38, as no oportet mortespræelc- fìeal from nis gere, quodnonfuppliciumpotiiasfirre,immo in quam Profundam inf rní" atyItem non iotrare, quám contra confcientiamatteff-ari ? st ft ratio. faithZuingliva. A man hadbetter endure any mifery then anen- raged conference. Verse 28. And fiar not them 'kith kill the body ] That cru, . elly kill it (as the word lignifies) that wittily :torture it, as thole ATOKTei7.!J, PrimitivePerfecutors, withall the molt exquitìce torments that the wit of malice could devife : that kill men fa, that they may feel theinfelves to be killed,as Tiberius bad. Odull Gemmet fuffereel a_ firange andcruel death in France for Religion. For when they had boundhim, they tooka kindeof creatures Which live in horse- and Mon. dung, called in French Ffcarbots, and put them unto his navel", f,á.878, covering themwith a difh, thewhich, within {Lott (pace, pierced intohis belly, and killed him. The tragical" Rory of their cruel handling of William Gardner Martyr in Portuesall may be read in Mr Foxes Martyrologie, fol.i z42. At th e bite of Heydrlberg, Monfieur Mi'lius an ancient Minilter and manof God, was takeii Z 3
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