446 e."l Commentary upon the Go(el Chap but Chritf , none brat Chrifì , as that Martyr cried in the flames. 4a. and Mon. This loveof Cbriif made them facrifice their dearefl lives to his fot. `438. name, yea profeffe, as7ohnArdel did to Bonner, That if hair of his heád were a man, he would filler death in themeaid fur his fweet Chrifls fake. My wife and my children are fo dearly beloved unto me , that they cannot be bought from me for all the riches and poffeflìons of the Duke of Bavarisy But for the love of my Lord God I -will whlingly forfake rbid 807. them, faid George C'arputter, who was burnt at (Munchen in Bavaria. Verfe 26. For what is aman profited] If there could (faith a M Leyhis me. reverendDivine) be filch abargain made, that he might have the nitout of Mar. whole world for the fale ofhis foul, he fhould ( for all that) be taiiry. a loafer by it. For hemight ( notwithflanding) be a bankrupt,, abeggar, begging in vain, though but for adrop ofcold water to cool his tongue. Is it nothing then to lode an immortali foul ? topurchafe an everliving death ? The loffe of the foul is in this velie fet forth tobe : r. Incomparable. 2. Irreparable. if therefore to loofethe life for money beamadneffe, what then the foul ? What wifeman would fetch gold out of a fiery crucible ?- hazard himfifto endlcfíß woes for a few waterifh pleafures? give his foul to the devil, as fome Popes did for the fhort enjoyment of Nonmagic fu. the Papall dignity ? What was this but to win Venice, and then to 'Upb,,ur, quern behanged at the gores thereof, as the Proverb is. In great fires ienetiu r men look Ertl to their jewels, then to their lumber : fo fl,ould verb fidenea- theft,' fee firíl to their fouls, to{mire them: and then take care tut ad Portam,,of the outward man. The fouldier cares not how his buckler at eft inprover speeds, fo his body be kept thereby from deadly thrufts. the bio. Per ¡Ili". Pope pet fwading c.2lexirrzlian ( King of Bohemia , afterwards Emperour) to bea good Catholike, with many proinifes of pro- fits and preferments, was anfwered by the King that he thanked his Holinefìe but that his fouls health was more dear to hint then all the things in the world. Which anfwerthey faid in Rome was Hifi.of the a Lutheran form offpcech, and fignified al alienation from the obe- C cf Treu dienceof that Sca : and they. began to difcourfe what would hap- b1.4. 9 pen after theold Emperours death. Or what He would give any thin; in the world, yea i oeco worlds if he had them, to be delivered. But cut ofhell there's no redemption. Hath the extortioner pil- led, or the robber fpoiled thy goods? By labour and lciftire thou mad
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