340 Commentary upon the Go[iel Chap.! o. God, needs fearnone elfe. Alofe.a fearednot Pharaoh, nor Mica_ jab, hab, when they hadonce PeenGod in his Mayfly. Mi- éaiah will not budge or alter his tale ; as the Lion fiercely purfucd, will not alter his gate, they fay, though he die for it. Dof our 7äiloxr, Martyr , when being Pent for by Steven gardiner, his friends pertwaded him not to ,appear, but fly, Fly you, Paid he, and do as your confcicnceleads you, I am fullydetermined, with Godsgrace, togo to the Bithop, and to his heard to tell 'him that he doth nought. This he refolved todo, and this he did ac cordingly. For at his firft appearance, Art thoucorn. , thou vil. lain, laid the Bithop? How dareft thou lookme in the face for 4aame ? Knoweft thou not who I am ? Yes, I know who you are (faid he again) Do our Gardiner B.ifhopof Yinchsfler, and Lord Chanceliou-, yet but a mortal! man, I trove. But if h ihould be afraid ofycrr lordly looks, why fear you not God the Lord of us all ? How dare you for fhame look any Chriftian man in the face,feeing youhave forfaken the truth,denicd your Ivlafter Chrift, and his Word, anddone contrary to your ownoath and writing ? ,eid, an Moe. With whatcountenance will y. uappear before theJudgment feat fel I : a i. of Chrift, and anfver to your oath, c ? Ye are ofmere value,then many narrows. ] Yea then manyother men, oscine pearl is more worth then many !Dibbles, one littlee Pial3912. Lark then many carrion-Kites. Noab found more favour with Cod, then all the world betides, The Saints are called a.! things, Dan to. Colof,i,2o. Taborand Hermon are put fJr the Ealt and Weft ..f the world, as if there w ere no world but d?redæaa,. that pleafant PfaLt6 3, Land, that Land of delight, foailed, . becauC in 7,4ah was God known, and there were thole excellent ones, in whom is all P ay.a7.26. Gods delight., He reckons oftnen by their riÿhteo. fneffe, and accounts fueh more excellent then their neighbours, wh infoevet they dwell by. Verfe 3 2. whofever therefore ¡hall cot,/lße me.] A bald and, wife confcflu nof Chrift is requiredofall fits, who are therefore laid to bemarked in theirfire heads (Revel. 7.3.) an open place is And they that will not profefíc him, (h411 be forted with Bich as through exceffeofpain, and defèet of patience gnaw their own tongues, Revel, i 6.1o, Antichrift takes it in .as good parc,,if his, bond-flaws receive hismare in their hand only ; the which, as cc- cation ferveth, they may coverer difcover, Revel, r 3,16. He lets, his, ufe what coufnagç_they will fo it may help to amp.. Kinlifie gdomhis,
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