Chap.2. aocording to StM A r r rT E vY. 3t .1 ehold,ds Angel] Glad of an office to ferve theSaints, Hrb. z. 14. They rejoicemore in their namesof office, then of honour : to becalled Angels,Watchmen,&c. then Principalities, powers,&c. Dan,423. it was longere lofephheard fromHeaven, but Gods time,he knew, was thebrit, And Althoughhe leave his people, to their thinking, á F""; yet he forfakesthemnot. Not that he cl,th not, faiththeAuthor HCh j3,s to theHet. Verle zo. For they are dead, which fossght the yerang childe, ICa ,s,:o life ] Godhid him as it were, for a litlemoment, asntilt the indig nation Lrae ov.erpaff. So he did 7ere»:y, Barsmcb, Atkanáfses, Luther in. his Pathmos, (as he Wed to call the caille of Wart. burg, ) where when the Pope had excommunicated him, and the Emperour profcrìbed him, theLord put into the heart of the Duke of Saxony tohide him for ttnmonths. I n which fpace the Pope dyed, theEmperourhad his hands fùll of the French wars, and the Church thereby obtained an happyHalcyon.At which time a pretty fpedacle it wasto behold Chritt ltrivi. g with Ancichçift for ma- ftery,For whatfoever the Popeand his Champions could do to the contrary, all fell out rather, as at Philippi,unto the furtheranceof the Goipell. So was it here in QAlarycs time: do what they Phil,t.ta, could,. the Chriflian Congregation in London were, fomecimes fourty,fometimes a hundred,fometimes two hundted. I have beard done ( faithM. Fox) that being fens to them to take their names,, and dton. and toespy their doings, yet inbeing among them wasconverted, and cryed them all mercy. Harpffield hearing that the Queenly tbi,l,a5x. a dying, hafted home from London to burne thofe fix that he had in his cruel cuftody. Thofe were the laft that were burnt. Mull,- othersefcapedby the Queens death. Verfe 21. Andbe aroje &c. and came into the land of Ifraci] 6zekso,73a, Glad they weregot out of tuch a hell as Egypt. where the Ifrael- ices having been for a time, brought back with them a golden Calte : jeroboambrought home two; and thefegood foulescould not but get and gather guilt or gre.fe. Hence Davids moans P Lt zo,q, at Melbech, Lots vexation at Sodom, 7eremies with for a cottage in thewildernefle, far enoughofffroin thole abulterers and affem,. blies of treacherous men, thofe facrificing Sodomites, of whom Jet.! s. itmight be taid,as Aaron of the people, that they were wholly fer uponfinne, Exod. 31.22. i,Loh. 5,19. But tome of the Saints for fake all ( faid illarjh theMartyr) and commit themfelves topain- A1. and Man: full exile, that, if it pleafe God, Chriíf may come agáineout of tot, t q.a3; Sgypt Verte 2s..
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