5 28 A Commentary upon theGo/ el Chap.23. Gods good gifts are to be acknowledged and improved even in the worft, as Davidmade Sauls epitaph, a Sam. t, though the devil preached his funerali, i Sam.28. t 9, But do not ye after their Worki ] If Miniflers do well,faith, Si'pa/toresbe-" Chry((Mena, it is their owngain, if they fay well, it is thine. Take ne vivun:, eo thou what thine own is, and let alone what is another mans. Syl- f beliatcrdicunt, laand K. Richard the third commanded others, under great pe- ruurn. nalties, tobe vertuous and modeft, when themfelves walked the A cipequodru- clean contrary way. A deformed painter may draw a goodly umefl,omitte pifture,a flunking breath, found a mighty blaft, and he that hath atienum. Chrytoft. but a bad voice, thewcunning in defcant. A blinde manmay bear a torch in a darknight, anda harpmake mufick..toochers, which . it felt is nosfenfible of.' Pofts fet for direftion of paffengers by the highway-fide, do point out the way which themfelves go not :: And figne-pofts tell the travellour there is wholefowe diet or warm lodging within, when themfelves remain in the florins, without. Lend preachers are like fpirie. fteeples, or high- pinacles, which point up to heaven, but prefíedown to the center. For they jay, and do not ] They had tongues which fpake by the talent, but their hands fcarce wroughtby the ounce; like that Of this a&our, ridiculous aftaur at Smyrna, who pronouncing ô calaam,ô heaven,. Polentacha- pointed with his finger toward the ground,: fo thefe Pharifees fing Caul $rC had theheaven commonlyat their tonguesend, but the earth con 'TN '(Hey "A"' tinually at their forgers-end. Tn a certain battel againft the Turks, "' there was a Bithop that thus encouraged thearmy. Play the men fellow-fouldiers, to day; and l dare promife you that if ye dye fighting, ye [hall fup to night with God in heaven. Now after the battei was begun, the Bifhi pwithdrewhiraafeif: And when ,h. Mantij, tome of the fouldiers enquired among themfelves what was be- ;Komi, p44í. comeof theBithop;and whyhe wouldnot takea (upper with then that night in heaven, others anfwered, Hodie f ibi jejunisam in- dixit, ideos non vide nobi f cum incælo cenare. This is fatting- daywith him, and therefore he will eat no ¡upper, no not in hea- zr,fiutdv,àP.. ven. Epic `letus was wont tof ay, that there were many Philofo- n A -áQ phers (we may fay, Divines ) ïívsv pis '7e43160, mxt1 r,.ye,,, as far, ", tee as a fewwords would go. But is religion nówbecome a word Brutus ap of opera. goodneffea name (as Brutus once cryed out ?) Should itbePaid lob, :s. ZZ, ofhoiineffe, as it was once in another place, Audiviansu famam spetiemur we have heard the fame thereof with our ears, and that's all ? agenda. The fuolith Virgins were found with their fic dicentes,. buc the good. 1
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