Chap.:3. acecrditagtaî St MA r r 11 à vv. 399 From amoi0 the)ufí ] Arnidft whom they might haply hope to hide thernf.ives, Baying hold upon theskit ofa 7tw inwardly. But it will not : for then, even their bail friends will diávaw them fer ever, tlio fe.J inwhoa ye trufb fhn11?:adgeyou, Job, t 2. Verfe 5o, 214d fhaaal 440 them iato the ftornace ] An extii,iri to tcrment is hereby deciphered. This our Saviour nad faid to th fame words, but a little. afore, verf42. He here repeats it, that: men may the better obferve it. And I would to God, faith chi), f,flo.nz:, that men would every day, and every whered.fcourfe of hell torments, that they would take a turn in hell ever andmnon by their meditations. Certainly did men believe the torments of hell, that weeping for extremity of heat, and that gnafhing of teeth that's there forextremity of cold, they duraf not but be more innocent : they would neveroffer to fetch profits or pleafures cut cfthof:flames. It was a fpeech of Çregory NETen : He that dots but hear of hell is without any further labour or (Stu- dy taken o.f from finfull pleafures. Thus he then : but alas mers hearts are grown harder now-adaiv : they can hear of hell, and be no more moved, then they are to handlea paint- ed toad. Verfe 51. Haveye urderl,{ood ail thefe thins ?] Sce here the ancient ufc of catechifing in he ChristianChurch. So afterw ards, Credii? Credo. Abrenunci.ta ? Abrenuneio were the primitive Qell ions and AnEver. ®rigen and Cyril were Catcchiils. Iat the anon, catechifingofyouth was one n-d:io means Of propagating the Gofpel. And the Jefaites obf:r'iag as much, have taken the fame cowrie for the propagating of their fapertfiti- on, and have fet forth divers Catechifines. I remember, faith MolmE1hon, that Eberhard, the goodDukeofdwwitterasber, would ,co_oitantly hear the young Gentlemen about the Court once a week rehearfing their Catcchafrraes; which; ifany did not well, . he was well whipt in thepretenceof the Duke and his Courtiers. B ilhop Ridley, in a letter of his to thebrethren; I hear, faith he, that theCeetechifaae in Engii,h is now ( after Mary came in) condemned in every Pulpit. O devilish malice , and moll fpitc fully injurious to the falvaticnof man kinde d IndeedSatan could not long fu fee, that fo great light lheuld be fpread abroad in the world, . l-le faw vveli enough that nothingwas able to overthrow his kingdom fo much , as if children being godly inRru ed in r:ligion fhould learn to know t, whiles they are yet D young. 111111111Moimir }oh, Ni anI.'lo&. corn l',549..
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