404 A Commentaryupon theGid,el Chape 4. Lipfius noteth upon Tacitus.) Neither bound only, but be- Gsorre Marlh headed without any law,right, or reafon,at though God hAd,i nown% ,t% a cerr.in nothingat all ofhim, as that Martyr exprefleth ir. All this befell -letter:. the good Baptifl, for tellingthe truth. Veritas odium arit. if jsl. ? and.. 1413 Mon. contciençe might but judge; how many of our hearerswouldbe found to-have an Herods heart towards their faithfull MinifLrs ? Num:az,29; Were there but a {word (of authority ) in their hand, as he laid to his Afle, they would Purely flay them. They would deal by them no better then Saul did by David, t Sam, c 8.io. whiles hewas playing upon his harp to eafe Sauls dif:raaed mind,, hecall a ipear at him. The moll favoury falt (if they can doe withall ) mule: be cafeour, and trodden under foot; as Calvin and other Germfr bomi. faithfull Miniftérs were driven-out of Geneva at the firft : where- ?War rervivi . upon he uttered there gracious words. Truly, ifI had ferved men, Jr -n, mala miht I had been ill rewarded : but it is well for me that I have ferved mercer perfnt_ himwho never faileth his, but will approve himfelf a liberall pay veretur, &c, Beaa in vita mafter,a rich rewarder. Cal Y. And put him in prifon ] Having firft laid hold upon all the principles in his ownhead, that might any way dillurb h's courfe in fin,and locked them up in rellraint, according to that Rom.;. i8. wicked men drtta:n the truth, that is, the light of their own confciences ( which is as another John Baptifd., a Prophet from. Felt font à God)this they imprifon in unrighteoufneffe,and becomef::gitives efuofugi from their ovvn heart.r,as Amain bath it. For Herodiasfake,his brother, &c.] Omar* vulpinando frßtrie... Parcur Eecief. ripeserat, as one pluafeth it : And he had her not only forhis wife, b'll but for his mifire fle : for the ruledhim at her plealure, as tezabel. did Ahab : of which wretched couple it is faid,that ReginaBrat B4chotcer. Rex,Rex vero Regina.But is never goeswell When the hencremes. Cb,00i. 407, - Howmany have we known, whole heads have been broken with their own rib ? Satan bath found this bait to cake fo well, that Lec never changed it fence hecrept intoParadife.And it is remarkeable, that in that firft fentence againft man, thiscaufe is expreffed, Re Gen:3, eaufe thou-.obeyrdf¢ the voice of thy,Wifr. Yerfe 4: For John hadPaidunto him,It it.not lain] oui ] Other& knew is robe fo, but none durft tell him fobut John. In like fort liah fold eflhab, thathe had troubled lfrael ( chofe times, and there did very much fuit : lolyn was another Elias, Herod and Herodias anfwered to Ahab and tezabel.) So Latimer prefèn- ted,fcr a New-years gift toK. Henry the eight, a newTefl:ament with
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