Chap.T4. according to St MA T TH BN,V. 4e3 Verfe 2. ylndfaid hate kiefervants] So feeking a diverfìon Luk of his inward terrours and torments. Perplexed he was and could zsrt§;:iee, ve findeno wayout, as S. Lucke., word importeth. Confcience will áßr e cnur qui hamper a guiltyperfon, and fill: himoft with unqueftionablecon- tt2PcrPlex', viftion and honour. As thofe that were condemned tobecru- tmtedtti q. in cified,bare their crofíe, that fhould loon after bear them : So God utr hash laid upon evil-doers the croneof their ov'nconfciences, that itiz+o,tim, exi. thereon they may Puffer afore they fuffer : and their greatett ene- turn nail tnve mier,necd not with them a greater mitch ief; For affuredly, a body niant. Bezr, is not fo torn with {tripes, as aminde with the remembrance of eked aftions. And here Cain runs to build iag ofCities, Saul mis zúloto w to the delight of nsulck, Belfl9.azzar to quaffing and carroufing, «, ;s Herod tohis minions and Catàmites ; fo to put by,uf poliible,their 'ryes, which haply were his melarcholly dumps and heart- qualmes, as they count and call fcriouslovcs, inward terrours. But contcience will not be pacified by theft for- ty Anodynes of the devil. Wicked men may skip and leap up and Namnon mitt. down for a while,as the wounded dear Both : fed beret l.tteri le- to poll tec,re- thalu arundo,thedeadly dart flicks fait in their fides,and will doe, cururn ell ty. without true repentance, till it bathbrought them, as it did Herod, rattnt exitium dT exzttum. to defparation and deftruftion, fo that he laid violent handsupon )oceph.tib.18. hisnfelf at Lions inFrance, whether he and his curtiz:n r; ba- cap 9. nrfhed by cíluguf cis. This ie John the Baptii ] Herod had thought tohave hugged his Herodias without courrout when once the B3ptitl was behead- ed : but it proved fomewhat otherwite. Indeed fo long as he plaid alone,he was lure rowin all. But nowcontcience cane in to play her part, Herod is in a wortecafe then ever : for he imagined !till that he Paw and,heard that holy head thou ing and cryingout againft,him,flaring him a1:ò in the face at every turne ; as that Ty- rant thought he faw the head of Syrrmachus, whom he had barely thin, in the mouthof the fish that was Cet before him on the table. And as Judge Morgan, who gave the tenrence of 'condemnation againtt the Lady Line Gray, fhorcly after he had condemned her, fell mad, and in his ravingcryedout continually to have the Lady f3Ì9s °'ton. /axe taken away fromhtn,and toended his life. Verte 3. For Herod had laid hold in John] If John touch Herod). white fin ( And who will Rand frill to have his eyes pickt out ?) Iohn mutt to prifon, without bail or mainprife; and there not only beconfined, but bound as a malefaftour, as a itirrer upof fcdicion ( Vakum crimen eortem qxi crimine v cai.snt, as to 1, hut. D d 4 Lid.;its 11111111mror i
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