A Commentary upon the Go(J'el. Chap.. t a. 3 5 4 anyof thePharifees beleeve inhim ? In this cafe duty muff bedone, however it be conflrued. Evil men, when they learn to think well will team to report well. Let our lives, and labours in the Lords work confute them : and though they fhculd by their reproaches bury our good names in their throats, thofe open fèpulchres, yet at utmoft, when Chrifl comes to judgement, there thall be a refur- rectlion of names as well as of bodies. Be patient therefore, bre- thren,unto the comingof the Lord,Iames 5.7. 4nd they fay he hathad<vil ] So Staephyltts and Suriui fain, that Luther learned his Divinityof the devil. The jefuites affirm, that he was flirted upby the devil, and they were tent out by God to refill him.Himfelf knewall this,and took it well aworth. `Pror- fús fatan eft Lutherm (faith he in an Epiflle toSpalntinses ) feel. Chrith s vivit ei^ regnat: Amen ; he adds his Amen to it. Verfè 19, The Sonne of man carne eating and drinking] Teaching us thereby, in the ufeof things indifferent, to doe what we can topreferve our good efteemwithothers, that we may the fooner prevail with them. This was St Pamir, All things to all men. He turned himfelfinto all fhapes and failaions bothoffpeech and fpirit,towin men toGod. St Auftin fpake broken barbarous As, aa for latine ro the Roman Colonies in Afrike, to the end that they dotus for dolor, floret for might underhand him. When I come to Rome, faith A_ rsbrofo to flárebir. Monica,I fall on the Saturday : when I am at Millais I fail nor. So you,towhat Church :never you come, ejrtr moremferva, doe as others doe ; not giving offence carelefly, nor takingoffence caufe- lefly. Calvin was call out of Geneva, for refuting toadminder the Lords Supper with wafer-cakes orunleavened bread. De quo Minimé rerun poffe(i reftituttu nttnrqunm contendendarroputavit ( faith Bezzin. a4,n e`I' quid his IT-) of which, beingafterwards relored, he thought belt to avequi offer yrohaturus>ße make no more words,but toyeeld : though he let them know, that he had rather it were otherwife. Chrtft fers us to learnof the un- jull fleward,byall lawful' ( though hedid it by unlawful') means, to maintainour reputation with men. For this defècl he notedin the bcil when he laid, The childrenofthis ttorldare 1 ifer in their generatton,then the children of light. B'ett Wfdom is jufti fled of her children] Who all having a. right eflirnate ofher worth,doe meanly efleeui ofothercourfes and Fndicarur,ve1 d,tcourfes, doe 'land to her, and (tickle for her, though never fo muc ¡enresrlapto- h flighted by theworld. There are that read it thus: Bar, teaaciatesr Ca- ertcrar.Scultct. W.ifd5m ks judged of her children, viz., the perveríè Jaws, who prcpoffcroufly
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