Chap.z4. 4ccording to S= M A r r x s vv, 549 as john did, till the fealed book was opened ; diggingdeep in the mine of the Scriptures for the mindeof God, i .l, ßr.2, t 5, and holding it fait when hebath ir, left at any timehe fhou1d ler it fl p, (1 on jtz zApat. Heb.I.I. Admirable is that, and appIiable to this purpot,which goer or Philos°lratua' relateth of the precious item Pantarbe of fo orient, du qe nere atí:er bright and fweet acolour, that it both dazcleth and refrelheth the acepu exa eyes at once, drawing togetherheaps of other {tones by it's f,trot m;>:apm errralsir. force (though far diftant) as hives of bees,&c. But, left fie coftly a it..m0 6 c,i¡ gift mouldgrowcheap, nature bath not only hid it in the inner- cerrbhurabdidu, moil- bowels of the earth, but alto bath put a faculty into it, of fed facut- flipping out of the handsofthofe that hold it, unleffr they be very rateo i rdrd;r, careful' toprevent it. qua ex capre, Verfe s 6. Flee into the mountains As Lot at length did, for t ananrbz!r Zoar was too hot to hold him : So fhould Iudeabe for thefe, who of serer, T;h were therefore to repair to Pella beyond gordan,where they were pre rata rertoaE t tecererur. hid till the indignation was over-pa{t, as Eufebir-ubath it, in the thirdbook and fifth Chapter ofhis history. Such a receptacle of religious people was Geneva in the Marian perfecutian. And fuck (bletied be God our firength for his urfpeakable faveur) is at this prefent WarrsickCastle to my felt writing thtfe things, and to many others in thefe troublons times. So . Bucer , and many godly people were entertained and fife- r uarded by that noble Francifeus a Sickwyn in the German acres. Verfe 17. Not come down to take any thing ] See here the mi-, ferias of war, which now, alas, we feel and can feel to ; being glad to flee Er our lives with the loflfc of all, left with Shimei, f eking to fave our goods, we life life and all ; glad if we may feape with the ;;kin ofcur teeth : And how. like are our prefent ctInvulfions to end in a deadly confumption 1 Ware is called evil by a fpecialty, .`.x{5.7: Sin, Satan, and warhave all one name, Evil is the beft üf th_m. Thebe{t offin is deformity, ofSatan en- mity, ofwar tnifery. God yet offerethus mercy, as Alexander did thofc he warred again%, whiles the lamp burned. O let us break of%our fns by repentance, and be abrupt in it, left we fhould ieern to come fho' t, Heh.4.1. Vale z 8. Return backjo tame his claims] The body is better lieufate Hate then éeitnent : And although there isgreat laic of clothes, in. flight - %ea: efpeci jlly, to fa't'e 118 ,from the .inj are ofwinde and weather ( for H b bzt . we carry the lamps of our lives in pap.rlanthorns, as it,were ) . i s S.4 yet
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