5 32 L.d Commentary upon the Goe x with Father Latimer ) that whofòever will be e b iuf'e with fd and Ann. vobás, (hall fhortly after come coram noble, Te fhwt up the kingdom of heaven ] By hiding heavenly truths, teaching damnable errours, excommunicating the well affected, or corrupting them, by evil connfell and example : and all this, ar$ti y coram eí- in os, before men, and to their faces, making fools of them, even whiles they look on, calling a mill before their eyes, as thofe Egyptian juglers did, Exed.7. and keeping from them that collyriwm, that fhould cure, and clear up their od vtrbwa eye - fight, Reve1.3.18. Thus did eflrwndell Archbifhop of Can_ Dei alliafJet, terbury,who bound, up the word of God, that it might not be aerernpore fao preached, in bis time (as. the Hilkorians words are,) and was pTedisaretur therefore (according to chis woe here denounced ). fò mitten in in Didionar. tongue, that he could neither fwallow, nor 1peak for certain ïbeetos: daies afore he died. Steven Gardiner was plagued in like man- ner, for like reafon. Andgenerally, thePopifh Clergy are vexed with that grievous and noifome fore of develifh fpite againft the Reformation, Revel.16.2. which they therefore oppofe with might and main, till wrath come upon them to the urmoíl, And albeit many of them efcape the vifible vengeance of God, yet this terrible Woe, as a moth, doth fecretly eat them up like agarment, and as a worm, eateth them up likewood, J 51.8, a$ it did thefe Pharifees_; on whole ouruide nothing could be dif- cerned, all was as before, but their foules were blafled, feared, and feared up to deftrudion He that hath drunk poifon, falles not down dead prefendy in the place, but he hath his death about him, as we fay. Soul lived and : reigned long after hewas calt off by Gods: and thevery devils are refpited in regardof their full torment, but themore is behinde. Verle 14. Tedevoarre *iddowsbouPs] Though they, preten- ded to be great fillers, Lul.1$, 12. yet their belliesprepared iie_ as Eliphar, hash it, 7o6 r 5.35. and their throats.( tholeo- pen fepulchres fwallowed up whole houles (fachwas their cove- tpufnefle) and that widows (fuch was their cruelty ),and that under a pretenceoflong prayers, which was their hypocrifie for while their lips feemed topray, they were but chewing that mortal, .that anurthering morfell that made them receive the grea- ter damnation. Uktulti in terris mandwcant, quad aped infaros digerunt, faith Augustin. Many devouae that onearth, that they ..null digefl inhell,where the never-dying worm ,will,feed greedily upon
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