Chap.2o. according t0 St J U H N. 14.1 pre, without dread of danger. So did Baf :l; when theEmperour P,ze,is Ulu tes threatned him with bonds, banifhment, &c. he wifht him to af- rícnlamenta fright babies with fuch bugbeares his life might be taken away,but prononenda. not his faith: his head, but not hiscrown, So Luther, at firmfo fearful! and faint-hearted, that in the year 1518, he wrote thus to Vivifica,occidé, Pope Leo the tenth : I lay my felf proftrate at yourHolineflè feet, voca, revoca, together withall that I am, and have : quicken me, kill me, call á;vocem rara me, recall me, approve me, reprove me, I fhall acknowledge vozemCgüRiin your voice to be the iery voyceof Chrift, ruling and fpeaking. in to pz ofic*entis you,cc.Yet afterwards he took more courage, witnefle among loquentcsag. many other things, that brave anfwer ofhis to one that toldhim, ,6-,,to cam. that both the Popeand the Emperorhad threatned his ruine, Con- tempttu efl a me Romano! Ci favor &furor. And when Spalati- mu had fent untohim, to enquirewhether he would go to Worms, . and appear in the Gofpels.caufe,if(afar fummoned him ? Go, laid he , I am refolved to go, though I were fore to encounter fo many Ludt Epifi.:, devils there, as are tiles upon the houses. Omnia de me profumes,. Praterfugam&palinodiam. Fugere nolo, multóminus recantare.. Verfe 20. He JheWedunto them his hands, &c.] For. their fur ther confirmation : fo he doth untous every time we come to his table.But oh,howshould our hearts long to look forever upon the humane nature ofChrift, cloathed with an exuberancy ofg'ory,at. the right handofhis heavenly Father ? And toconfider that every vein in that blelled body bled, to bring us to heaven? Augn/linwas wont towith that he might have the happineffe to fee thefe three things,, Romani inflore, Toulon,: in ore, & Chri/lum in corpore,, But I fhould take venerable Becks part rather, and fay with him, Anima mea defiderat Chri/lum regem mourn videre in decorefuo a. Let me fee my King Chrift in his heavenly beauty. Verfe a t . Thenfaid?efus to them again, Peace ] The common. falutation amongft the.Jewes (the Turks at.this day falute in like.Blunts voyage: fort, Saloum aleek; the reply is, eArleek, falaum, that is; Peace be intoLevant., unto you)This ourSaviour purpofely redoubleth,to perfwadethem ofpardon for their late fhamefull defeftion from him, and their backwardnelFe to believehis refurreftion. Sin is loon committed, but not fo eafily remitted : or,if in heaven,yet not inour own con -. fciences,. till which ther's. little comfort.. Chriil, to confirm them,., is pleafed again to imploy them, and to count them faithful],, put- ting them again into theminiftery. A callingnot more honoura-- b,le then comfortable : the very trait that God commits to a man .1 Tim. I. 13:. therein_
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