A
Preseruatiue
LILIE
,
to
cure
Soules
.
Marke
16.16
.
He
that
shall
beleeue
and
be
baptised
,
shall
be
saued
:
but
he
that
will
not
beleeue
,
shall
be
damned
.
THese
words
are
(
almost
)
the
last
words
our
Sauior
spake
to
his
Disciples
:
who
hauing
finished
the
worke
of
our
Redemption
on
the
Crosse
,
&
risen
againe
a
triumphant
conqueror
,
laden
with
the
spoiles
of
death
,
&
meaning
now
to
ascend
to
his
Father
;
doth
before
his
departure
commit
a
special
charge
vnto
his
Apostles
,
and
in
them
,
to
all
others
succeeding
them
in
any
part
of
that
function
,
which
charge
S.
Mathew
in
his
last
chapter
expresseth
in
these
words
,
Go
(
saith
our
Sauior
)
teach
all
Nations
,
baptising
them
,
in
the
name
of
the
Father
,
the
Sonne
and
the
Holy-ghost
.
This
is
the
charge
which
Christ
did
properly
commit
to
his
Disciples
;
but
because
it
was
to
small
purpose
to
lay
this
commandement
on
them
,
to
enioyne
them
the
duty
of
preaching
and
administring
the
Sacraments
,
vnlesse
others
would
embrace
their
doctrine
,
and
receiue
their
Sacraments
;
to
allure
men
the
better
,
and
to
draw
them
,
for
their
owne
good
,
vnto
the
discharge
of
this
heauenly
dutie
,
he
proposeth
a
reward
to
him
that
shall
beleeue
and
be
baptised
,
and
a
punishment
to
them
that
shall
refuse
to
beleeue
,
or
of
contempt
reiect
his
Sacrament
:
The
reward
in
these
words
,
Hee
shall
be
saued
:
the
punishment
in
these
;
He
that
will
not
beleeue
,
shall
be
damned
.
Betweene
which
two
estates
,
there
is
no
meane
,
but
eyther
Saluation
or
Damnation
:
of
which
two
my
meaning
is
not
to
dilate
;
to
speake
eyther
of
the
Ioyes
of
Heauen
,
or
Paines
of
Hell
;
these
are
copious
Common-places
:
in
which
,
as
no
man
can
want
matter
of
discourse
,
so
no
man
is
able
to
expresse
either
of
them
in
the
least
part
.
But
my
meaning
is
to
speake
of
the
persons
to
whom
the
reward
,
which
is
vnconceiueable
,
is
promised
;
and
to
whom
the
punishment
or
threatning
here
belongeth
:
For
this
I
take
to
be
pertinent
to
the
Time
,
and
to
this
present
Occasion
.
I
will
beginne
with
the
persons
to
whom
the
reward
is
promised
,
set
downe
,
in
these
wordes
;
Hee
that
shall
beleeue
and
be
baptised
:
In
which
words
diuers
things
do
offer
themselues
to
bee
considered
,
and
that
which
I
thinke
first
is
necessary
,
is
the
coniunction
of
these
two
:
namely
,
Faith
and
Baptisme
:
He
that
shall
beleeue
and
be
baptised
,
must
be
read
without
dis-junction
,
and
make
but
one
proposition
:
For
our
Sauiour
Christ
doth
not
heere
meane
,
that
he
which
is
baptised
but
beleeueth
not
,
or
that
he
that
beleeueth
,
and
is
not
baptised
,
shall
be
saued
:
but
both
are
heere
ioyned
together
,
He
that
beleeueth
and
is
baptised
.
Betweene
these
two
,
I
meane
,
Faith
and
Baptisme
,
Christ
doth
part
the
causes
of
Saluation
:
yet
let
none
mis-take
me
,
in
that
I
say
,
these
are
causes
of
Saluation
:
I
doe
not
say
they
are
principall
causes
,
but
instrumentall
,
adiuvant
,
secundary
,
inferiour
causes
,
which
it
pleaseth
God
to
vse
and
sanctifie
,
for
the
sauing
of
our
soules
.
I
doe
not
say
,
that
either
both
together
,
or
any
one
of
them
by
it selfe
,
is
a
cause
absolutely
necessarie
to
Saluation
,
so
that
he
that
wants
either
one
,
or
both
,
must
be
damned
;
which
in
the
latter
member
,
I
shall
more
largely
declare
;
but
I
say
,
they
are
necessarie
,
in
respect
of
our
obedience
,
and
necessarie
,
because
commanded
:
and
therefore
,
if
of
contempt
,
or
grosse
,
or
affected
negligence
,
we
either
refuse
the
one
or
the
other
,
we
incurre
the
displeasure
of
God
,
and
by
that
meanes
eternall
damnation
.
In
this
sence
I
call
them
causes
,
and
ioyne
them
both
together
,
euen
as
Christ
himselfe
doth
;
Hee
that
beleeueth
and
is
baptised
:
both
of
them
are
,
in
their
kinde
,
necessary
.
Of
the
one
,
that
is
,
Faith
,
the
Apostle
sayth
,
Without
faith
it
is
vnpossible
to
please
God
:
The
ancient
Fathers
,
grounding
themselues
vpon
that
,
and
the
like
places
,
doe
speake
as
becomes
them
,
reuerently
;
resembling
Baptisme
to
the
red-Sea
,
in
which
Pharaoh
,
that
is
,
the
Diuell
,
with
all
his
workes
,
are
drowned
;
and
the
Israelites
,
that
is
,
the
true
Christians
regenerate
,
are
deliuered
from
the
wrath
of
God
:
To
the
Poole
of
Bethesda
,
into
which
the
Angell
descended
at
a
certaine
time
,
and
stirred
the
water
;
and
who
first
descended
there-into
,
was
cured
of
his
infirmitie
;
I
say
,
they
not
onely
resemble
it
,
but
preferre
it
before
this
water
;
for
that
water
did
onely
cure
the
bodie
,
but
this
the
soule
:
in
this
water
but
one
could
be
cured
at
one
time
,
there
many
are
cured
:
into
that
water
the
Angell
descended
at
a
certayne
time
,
and
before
he
had
stirred
the
water
,
it
would
not
worke
,
and
therefore
it
might
bee
called
Fons
signatus
,
a
Fountaine
sealed
vp
:
but
this
water
is
open
and
common
,
and
floweth
plentifully
to
all
Christians
;
according
to
that
prediction
of
the
Prophet
Zacharie
:
In
that
day
,
Dauid
,
and
to
the
house
of
Ierusalem
,
for
sinne
and
for
vncleannesse
.
In
that
water
God
did
worke
by
the
ministerie
of
an
Angell
,
heere
he
worketh
by
the
ministery
of
sinfull
men
,
yet
is
the
effect
wonderfull
,
neither
doth
our
humility
derogate
from
the
power
and
operation
of
it
.
I
might
repeate
many
other
their
similitudes
to
this
purpose
:
many
speeches
they
haue
,
which
some
thinke
to
be
Hyperbolicall
,
and
beyond
the
truth
;
but
indeed
,
they
are
no
more
,
then
the
Scripture
teacheth
:
A
man
may
as
well
ascribe
too
little
,
as
too
much
to
the
Sacrament
;
and
as
the
Papists
haue
erred
in
Superstition
,
so
some
perhaps
in
Prophanenesse
,
to
which
these
our
times
do
too
much
incline
:
A
meane
may
be
held
betweene
both
,
that
is
,
to
thinke
of
these
as
they
are
in
effect
,
causes
and
instruments
by
which
Christ
doth
deriue
into
our
soules
the
efficacie
of
his
precious
bloud
:
He
that
beleeueth
and
is
baptised
shall
be
saued
.
And
this
is
the
first
thing
I
thought
meete
to
be
obserued
,
I
meane
the
coniunction
of
these
two
,
Faith
and
Baptisme
.
But
,
is
nothing
else
(
will
some
say
)
required
to
Saluation
?
Is
it
sufficient
to
beleeue
and
be
baptised
?
Will
these
two
,
without
good-workes
,
bring
them
that
are
come
to
yeares
of
discretion
,
to
heauen
?
God
forbid
any
should
think
so
:
yet
some
in
former
times
haue
beene
of
that
minde
:
who
held
,
that
Faith
without
Workes
was
sufficient
to
Saluation
;
and
against
that
heresie
Saint
Augustine
hath
written
a
whole
Booke
very
learnedly
.
Our
Aduersaries
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
doe
ascribe
vnto
vs
this
errour
,
and
say
,
that
we
haue
reuiued
this
Heresie
:
wherein
,
their
conscience
tells
them
,
they
doe
vs
wrong
:
It
may
be
,
you
haue
heard
some
say
,
that
Faith
onely
is
necessary
to
Iustification
,
and
that
is
very
true
;
but
did
you
euer
heare
any
say
,
that
onely
Faith
was
necessary
to
Saluation
?
I
suppose
there
was
neuer
any
so
madde
,
as
once
to
thinke
it
.
Bellarmine
in
this
poynt
,
doth
vs
right
,
who
sayth
,
That
both
they
and
wee
doe
hold
a
necessity
of
workes
,
though
in
a
diuers
sence
:
They
hold
in
workes
,
necessitatem
efficientiae
,
a
necessitie
of
the
efficacie
of
workes
:
we
holde
necessitatem
praesentiae
,
a
necessitie
of
the
presence
of
workes
:
In
plaine
termes
,
the
Question
betweene
vs
,
is
not
,
of
the
necessitie
of
workes
,
but
of
the
merit
and
dignity
of
workes
,
in
which
there
is
some
difference
betweene
vs
;
but
the
necessity
of
workes
is
held
of
both
:
and
therefore
there
is
no
need
to
refuse
the
words
:
he
is
supposed
to
be
in
the
wrong
,
which
taketh
away
the
necessity
of
a
vertuous
life
,
it
rather
requireth
a
reall
refutation
.
For
although
it
is
confessed
on
both
sides
,
I
meane
,
of
Protestants
and
Papists
,
that
good
workes
are
necessary
to
saluation
;
yet
,
in
eyther
Religion
,
many
there
are
,
who
ouerthrow
the
confession
of
their
faith
,
with
the
notorious
sins
of
their
liues
,
professing
they
know
God
,
but
denying
him
with
their
workes
,
I
will
beginne
then
with
our
Aduersaries
,
who
in
contention
do
iustify
themselues
and
lay
heauy
imputations
vpon
others
:
but
as
the
old
saying
is
,
Hee
that
condemnes
another
,
ought
not
himselfe
to
be
faultie
.
Let
vs
consider
then
their
demeanour
.
Bellarmine
,
amongst
other
notes
of
the
Church
,
saith
,
that
Sanctitas
doctrinae
,
Purenesse
of
doctrine
,
both
concerning
Faith
and
Manners
,
is
a
speciall
one
;
and
another
is
,
Sanctitas
vitae
,
Holinesse
of
life
,
at
the
least
,
in
the
authors
and
founders
of
their
seuerall
Orders
:
But
if
you
should
measure
truth
,
either
by
some
of
their
doctrine
taught
,
or
by
the
practise
of
some
of
their
Professours
,
it
would
goe
hard
with
them
.
In
the
Councell
of
Trent
,
amongst
other
things
,
they
haue
established
Inuocation
of
Saints
,
and
worshipping
of
Reliques
:
in
which
Councell
notwithstanding
,
the
Fathers
assembled
giue
great
charges
to
their
Priests
,
that
no
superstition
of
idolatry
be
committed
in
eyther
of
them
:
whereby
they
plainly
confesse
,
that
whatsoeuer
they
teach
,
the
practise
of
the
vulgar
is
full
of
corruption
&
superstition
:
and
that
Bellarmine
doth
intreat
,
that
the
weaknesse
or
ignorance
of
the
common
sort
,
do
not
preiudice
the
truth
of
their
doctrine
,
vsing
certaine
words
of
Saint
Augustine
in
a
like
case
:
Noui
multos
simulacrorum
adoratores
,
&c.
Many
superstitions
are
committed
by
the
vulgar
,
out
of
ignorance
and
weakenesse
.
But
if
wee
should
come
now
from
matter
of
Opinion
,
to
the
matter
of
Life
,
and
alledge
those
things
which
Bernard
spoke
,
of
the
corruption
of
the
Church
in
his
time
,
and
that
which
Petrarch
,
and
sundry
others
haue
written
,
it
will
make
our
haire
stand
vpright
,
and
I
do
abstain
from
particular
reciting
of
them
;
neyther
is
it
my
meaning
in
thus
censuring
them
,
to
iustifie
our selues
;
for
I
am
perswaded
,
that
the
scandalous
demeanour
of
many
dissolute
Protestants
,
doth
make
many
a
Papist
,
and
that
the
vnchristian
carriage
of
either
sort
,
doth
make
many
an
Atheist
:
and
therefore
both
sorts
should
ioyne
together
,
to
redeeme
our
Christian
profession
from
these
scandalous
imputations
,
with
which
diuers
doe
too
truely
taxe
vs
,
and
to
adorne
our
calling
with
good-workes
,
that
the
Name
of
God
be
not
blasphemed
by
vs
,
and
that
the
mouthes
of
our
enimies
may
be
stopped
.
This
is
the
best
way
to
confute
the
supposed
opinion
,
which
taketh
away
the
necessity
of
good
life
;
that
is
,
not
by
Words
,
but
by
Workes
:
Let
your
light
so
shine
before
men
,
sayth
our
Sauiour
,
that
they
maysee
your
good
workes
,
and
glorifie
your
Father
which
is
in
heauen
.
But
you
will
reply
and
say
:
Are
not
the
words
of
your
Text
plaine
?
Doth
not
Christ
say
,
He
that
beleeueth
,
and
is
baptised
,
shall
be
saued
?
I
aunswere
,
that
vnder
these
two
are
comprehended
good-workes
;
without
which
,
Faith
or
Baptisme
is
to
small
purpose
.
The
diuels
are
not
altogether
without
Faith
,
Simon
Magus
had
both
these
,
Faith
and
Baptisme
:
He
beleeued
,
but
he
saith
it
with
an
emphasis
,
now
Simon
himselfe
also
beleeued
,
that
great
sorcerer
,
that
notable
Impostor
;
and
that
which
is
more
,
that
he
with
others
beleeued
:
And
therefore
,
vnlesse
we
thinke
that
all
others
were
hypocrites
,
and
that
Saint
Luke
were
deceiued
in
them
all
,
wee
must
needes
thinke
that
Simon
Magus
beleeued
and
was
baptised
;
for
both
doth
the
Euangelist
affirme
;
yet
his
end
(
as
is
thought
)
was
most
miserable
and
damnable
:
and
therfore
Faith
and
Baptisme
without
good-workes
,
profite
not
:
Nay
,
it
is
certaine
,
that
both
these
,
I
meane
,
Faith
and
Baptisme
,
without
good-workes
,
when
we
grow
vp
to
yeares
of
discretion
,
doe
but
increase
our
damnation
,
so
farre
are
they
from
procuring
our
saluation
.
For
it
is
better
neuer
to
haue
knowne
the
way
of
God
,
be
our
God
,
yet
conditionally
,
so
wee
serue
him
:
We
couenant
with
him
to
renounce
the
workes
of
the
Diuell
,
and
to
contract
our selues
wholly
to
his
seruice
.
True
it
is
,
that
without
this
contract
wee
are
bound
to
the
same
duety
,
for
wee
are
his
creatures
,
and
in
regard
both
of
our
Creation
,
and
Redemption
,
are
bound
to
serue
him
;
but
yet
by
our
contract
in
Baptisme
,
we
bring
a
speciall
Bond
and
Obligation
vpon
our selues
for
euer
.
For
euen
those
things
which
of
themselues
doe
binde
vs
,
if
we
binde
our selues
to
them
by
speciall
Obligation
,
doe
binde
vs
more
forcibly
.
For
example
,
That
if
God
would
bee
with
him
,
and
keepe
him
in
his
iourney
,
and
would
giue
him
bread
to
eate
,
and
cloathes
to
put
on
,
so
that
he
come
againe
to
his
Fathers
house
in
safety
,
then
should
the
Lord
be
his
God
;
then
of
all
that
God
gaue
him
,
would
hee
giue
him
the
tenth
:
To
which
duties
he
was
bound
without
a
vow
;
but
by
this
vow
hee
was
double
bound
.
The
Prophet
Dauid
describing
a
iust
and
righteous
man
,
he
sweareth
to
his
neighbour
,
and
disappointeth
him
not
,
though
it
were
to
his
owne
hinderance
.
No
question
,
but
if
he
promise
,
he
is
bound
to
performe
:
though
it
be
neuer
so
nudum
pactum
,
a
bare
and
naked
promise
,
yet
is
a
man
in
conscience
&
honesty
bound
;
but
if
he
sweare
,
then
is
he
bound
in
a
greater
bond
:
for
these
are
two
bonds
of
a
wonderfull
force
,
the
one
of
Oathe
;
the
other
of
Vow
;
and
it
is
a
question
,
whether
is
the
greater
bond
.
The
Casuists
obserue
,
that
Obligatio
iuramenti
est
voto
firmior
;
the
Oath
is
a
stronger
bond
then
the
Vow
,
because
we
sweare
by
God
,
though
the
Vow
be
sanctior
,
holier
,
because
we
vow
to
God
.
It
is
euident
then
,
that
the
contract
wee
make
in
Baptisme
,
which
is
as
strong
as
any
Oathe
or
Vowe
in
the
world
,
doth
tie
vs
more
strongly
to
that
duety
which
of
it selfe
,
without
any
vow
or
promise
,
is
simply
and
absolutely
necessarie
.
But
let
vs
yet
a
little
consider
what
manner
of
bond
and
obligation
it
is
,
that
by
Baptisme
,
wee
bring
vpon
ourselues
.
We
call
this
mystery
by
the
name
of
Sacrament
,
which
is
a
borrowed
word
:
for
the
Romaines
in
times
past
,
when
they
prest
any
Souldiers
,
ministred
an
oathe
vnto
them
,
of
Fidelity
,
which
they
called
,
Sacramentum
militiae
,
the
Oathe
of
their
militarie
seruice
;
without
which
Oathe
,
they
made
a
scruple
to
beare
Armes
.
Wee
,
when
wee
take
vp
Souldiers
,
doe
not
alwayes
sweare
them
,
but
they
receiue
Presse-mony
,
which
bindes
them
sufficiently
:
And
what
thinke
you
of
a
Souldier
,
that
after
he
hath
receiued
his
Presse-mony
,
after
he
is
admitted
into
pay
,
inrolled
in
the
Booke
,
shall
forsake
his
Campe
,
without
the
leaue
of
his
Generall
,
as
many
run-agate
souldiers
doe
,
or
perhappes
,
reuolte
,
and
flee
into
the
enemies
Campe
,
or
staying
in
the
Campe
,
haue
,
notwithstanding
,
conference
with
the
enemie
and
(
as
opportunity
serues
)
deliuers
vp
the
Fort
or
Holde
committed
to
him
,
as
some
in
our
times
perfidiously
and
dishonestly
haue
done
?
Or
,
if
hee
doe
none
of
these
,
yet
,
eyther
of
cowardise
or
contempt
,
neuer
fights
blowe
,
neuer
doth
any
seruice
to
his
Captaine
or
Commaunder
?
Doe
not
such
Souldiers
deserue
punishment
,
greater
then
if
they
had
refused
to
serue
,
to
which
,
notwithstanding
,
their
alleageance
doth
binde
them
?
So
is
it
in
this
case
:
In
Baptisme
wee
receiue
Gods
Presse-mony
;
then
wee
beginne
to
be
his
Souldiers
,
and
by
that
mysterie
,
doe
binde
our selues
as
fast
as
any
vowe
or
oathe
can
tie
vs
:
and
being
thus
bound
,
if
we
be
desertores
militiae
,
forsakers
of
our
Christian
profession
,
and
become
flat
Apostataes
,
wee
then
are
more
guilty
then
if
we
had
neuer
contracted
with
God
to
serue
him
;
which
to
doe
,
wee
are
euen
bound
by
Baptisme
:
and
heerein
,
many
of
vs
doe
diuers
wayes
infringe
the
vowe
wee
made
in
Baptisme
,
fleeing
from
the
Campe
of
Christ
,
into
the
tents
of
Sathan
.
There
are
scene
amongst
vs
,
God
be
thanked
,
that
renounce
their
profession
vniuersally
,
yet
many
do
daily
slide
to
Poperie
;
which
,
as
I
sayd
,
though
it
bee
not
a
totall
defection
,
yet
it
is
an
aberration
from
Christ
,
and
that
a
grosse
one
:
But
where
Christians
doe
border
vpon
the
Turkes
,
it
is
no
newes
to
see
Christians
turne
Turkes
;
these
are
Apostataes
and
runnagate
souldiers
,
out
of
Christs
Campe
:
But
though
there
be
none
such
amongst
vs
,
yet
are
there
disobedient
souldiers
,
whose
standing
is
in
Gods
Campe
,
but
they
fight
the
Diuells
battailes
:
Such
are
all
notorious
and
scandalous
sinners
,
who
may
carry
Gods
marke
in
their
fore-heads
,
but
are
the
Diuells
seruants
in
their
actions
;
whom
I
wish
,
if
any
such
be
heere
,
to
repent
,
and
consider
what
a
shamefull
thing
it
is
,
after
that
they
haue
receiued
Gods
Presse-mony
,
&
haue
bin
brought
vp
in
his
Campe
,
to
bee
at
couenant
with
Sathan
,
Death
,
and
Hell
.
Of
all
others
,
Hypocrites
,
as
they
are
of
the
greatest
number
,
so
are
they
in
the
most
daunger
,
because
vnder
pretence
of
fighting
Gods
battells
,
they
betray
the
whole
army
to
the
enemies
.
And
yet
,
I
know
not
whether
I
should
say
,
that
such
as
these
are
of
the
Campe
;
nay
rather
,
as
some
say
,
they
are
but
in
the
camp
,
not
of
the
Campe
;
not
of
the
Church
,
but
in
the
Church
:
and
as
S.
John
speakes
,
Some
such
are
gone
out
from
vs
,
but
they
were
not
of
vs
;
for
if
they
had
been
of
vs
,
they
would
haue
continued
with
vs
;
or
if
they
be
members
of
the
church
,
they
are
but
members
of
the
visible
Church
;
in
which
there
are
Tares
and
Wheat
,
Sheep
and
Goates
,
vessels
of
honour
,
and
vessels
of
dishonour
:
but
how
they
should
be
actually
members
of
the
Catholike
Church
,
which
is
the
societie
of
the
faithfull
,
and
the
mysticall
body
of
Christ
,
I
cannot
see
.
Our
Aduersaries
,
who
will
not
graunt
the
difference
betweene
the
visible
and
inuisible
Church
,
say
,
that
the
outward
profession
of
faith
,
doth
make
one
a
member
of
Christs
body
;
and
that
no
internall
vertue
is
required
thereunto
:
but
when
wee
obiect
vnto
them
,
such
scandalous
and
grosse
sinners
,
and
close
and
hidden
hypocrites
,
as
lurke
in
the
body
of
the
Church
,
then
are
they
driuen
to
their
poore
shifts
:
for
they
affirme
,
that
such
are
members
,
though
dead
members
of
Christs
body
;
these
,
say
they
,
are
dead
members
:
Others
call
them
not
members
,
but
parts
or
excrements
in
the
body
,
as
all
our
nayles
and
haires
are
but
corrupt
humours
in
the
body
,
like
biles
or
inflammations
:
But
how
any
such
should
bee
the
members
of
Christ
,
or
appertaine
to
his
mysticall
body
,
is
beyond
my
reach
.
For
of
the
Body
Christ
is
the
Head
,
who
giueth
life
and
sustenance
to
euery
member
of
it
;
men
that
continue
obstinately
in
any
grosse
sinne
,
are
the
members
of
Sathan
;
and
how
they
should
be
actually
the
members
of
Christ
,
I
see
not
.
True
it
is
,
that
such
may
appertaine
to
Gods
election
,
and
they
may
be
called
,
as
Saint
Augustine
speakes
,
Electi
secundum
propositum
suum
;
Elected
according
to
his
purpose
;
for
so
I
see
the
Scripture
speakes
;
but
actually
,
they
are
not
the
members
of
Christ
,
till
they
be
called
,
sanctified
and
bring
forth
fruit
:
neither
can
a
man
haue
any
comfort
in
Christ
,
either
in
regard
of
an
historicall
faith
,
or
of
Baptisme
,
till
hee
repent
,
and
become
a
true
souldier
to
Christ
,
to
which
his
Baptisme
doth
binde
him
.
And
therefore
,
if
you
wish
to
bee
saued
,
adde
to
Faith
and
Baptisme
,
Good-workes
,
which
though
in
this
place
,
they
are
not
mentioned
,
yet
are
they
comprehended
.
Neither
can
I
giue
better
counsell
to
you
,
then
Iohn
Baptist
did
to
the
people
when
they
came
to
be
baptised
of
him
:
For
,
when
they
asked
him
,
what
they
should
doe
to
be
saued
:
He
answered
,
Let
him
that
hath
two
coates
,
by
which
is
not
meant
,
that
it
is
vn-lawfull
for
a
man
to
haue
two
coates
,
but
that
which
is
redundant
and
superfluous
in
our
estate
,
wee
must
giue
to
the
poore
;
or
,
to
speake
plainly
,
relieue
the
poore
,
if
God
hath
giuen
vs
abilitie
:
it
is
in
a
word
,
a
lesson
of
Mercie
,
and
that
to
be
performed
as
time
and
circumstances
require
:
this
was
a
generall
lesson
which
hee
gaue
to
all
the
people
.
But
when
the
Publicans
came
,
who
were
infamous
for
their
polling
and
oppression
,
and
asked
what
they
should
doe
,
he
bade
them
require
no
more
then
that
which
was
appoynted
vnto
them
:
and
when
the
Souldiers
came
,
who
,
vnlesse
Grace
restraine
them
,
are
proude
,
barbarous
,
and
bloudy
,
and
asked
what
they
should
doe
;
he
answeres
,
Doe
violence
to
no
man
,
neither
accuse
any
man
falsely
,
and
be
content
with
your
wages
.
Vnum
omnibus
,
conueniens
singulis
responsum
dabat
:
Hee
gaue
a
generall
answere
to
them
all
,
and
a
particular
answere
to
men
of
seuerall
degrees
and
callings
;
and
therein
Saint
Ambrose
commendeth
his
discretion
:
For
there
is
a
generall
dutie
,
pertaining
to
all
Christians
,
and
that
is
the
duetie
of
Charitie
,
of
Mercie
;
from
which
,
neither
high
nor
lowe
,
Priest
nor
People
,
neither
rich
nor
poore
are
exempted
;
euery
man
,
according
to
his
rancke
and
abilitie
,
must
be
mercifull
.
But
there
are
also
seuerall
dueties
appertaining
to
seuerall
men
;
for
wee
all
are
one
body
,
but
in
that
body
are
diuers
members
,
some
appoynted
to
one
office
,
some
to
another
:
and
if
wee
will
haue
comfort
by
our
Baptisme
,
then
it
becommeth
〈◊〉
to
practise
all
generall
dueties
with
all
Christians
;
and
particular
also
,
with
faithfulnes
and
desire
to
discharge
that
duty
that
our
particular
vocation
doth
binde
vs
to
,
&
then
are
we
trusty
&
true
Souldiers
;
then
keepe
we
our
vow
made
in
Baptisme
;
then
wee
may
take
comfort
in
our
Christian
vocation
:
For
,
he
that
beleeueth
and
is
baptised
,
and
withall
,
bringeth
foorth
fruit
,
liuing
answerable
to
his
profession
,
shall
be
saued
.
I
will
not
deny
but
in
many
things
we
offend
all
;
neither
doth
any
person
liue
so
exactly
and
walke
so
innocently
as
his
Christian
vocation
requireth
;
but
God
passeth
by
many
of
our
infirmities
,
and
accepteth
our
seruice
,
though
vnperfect
,
when
wee
striue
to
doe
our
indeuour
,
and
haue
a
care
of
our
conuersation
:
Euen
as
a
man
that
beares
with
many
infirmities
in
his
sonne
,
so
long
as
he
doth
not
vtterly
cast
off
the
yoake
of
obedience
,
and
become
,
against
all
nature
,
treacherous
&
incorrigible
;
for
that
dissolues
the
bonds
of
nature
,
&
giues
iust
cause
of
disherison
:
so
God
suffereth
and
passeth
by
many
ordinary
infirmities
,
which
humane
frailtie
cannot
auoyd
,
and
taketh
vs
for
his
children
,
till
by
our
hainous
and
grosse
sinnes
,
and
by
our
obstinate
persisting
in
them
,
wee
fall
from
sinne
to
Sathan
,
renounce
our
profession
and
leaue
our
standing
:
and
yet
when
by
repentance
we
returne
againe
,
hee
receiueth
vs
.
Two
things
haue
I
now
dispatched
,
I
haue
shewed
the
necessarie
coniunction
of
Faith
and
Baptisme
;
and
that
vnder
those
two
Good
workes
are
comprehended
:
and
now
some
would
thinke
,
that
I
might
conclude
this
first
member
,
but
I
cannot
yet
leaue
it
.
There
is
a
mystery
of
Iniquity
,
which
was
long
since
begot
,
in
the
time
of
Ignorance
,
and
brought
vp
a
long
time
in
darkenesse
,
and
neuer
saw
the
Sunne
:
but
now
it
is
crept
out
of
corners
,
and
aduaunceth
it selfe
,
with
impudencie
,
in
the
open
sight
of
the
world
:
it
is
a
thing
which
men
call
Equiuocation
,
or
Mentall
Reseruation
,
which
some
would
haue
husht
,
and
thinke
meete
it
were
supprest
in
silence
:
but
we
know
the
world
hath
taken
notice
of
it
;
and
it
is
lippis
&
tonsoribus
notum
;
it
is
talked
of
euen
in
the
Barbers
shoppe
:
and
therefore
we
may
say
,
Publish
it
in
Ashkelon
,
and
proclaime
it
in
the
streets
of
Gath
:
Howbeit
,
I
would
not
deale
with
it
at
this
time
,
were
I
not
,
in
some
sort
,
enforced
thereunto
;
for
a
speciall
Patron
of
it
,
is
the
Iesuite
,
which
peruerteth
many
Scriptures
to
this
purpose
,
and
doth
not
spare
this
that
I
now
intreate
of
;
Qui
crediderit
,
&
baptizatus
fuerit
,
saluabitur
:
Hee
that
shall
beleeue
,
and
bee
baptized
,
shall
bee
saued
:
that
is
,
if
hee
liue
well
,
so
saith
he
.
Is
not
heere
a
mentall
reseruation
,
saith
he
?
and
shall
I
(
intreating
of
this
Text
)
suffer
it
so
to
be
depraued
?
and
shewing
out
of
this
place
,
the
necessitie
of
a
good
life
,
suffer
the
Text
to
be
wrested
to
the
defence
of
false
dealing
and
dissembling
?
No
,
I
may
not
:
and
therefore
I
must
needes
say
,
that
neither
in
this
place
,
nor
in
any
other
place
of
Scripture
,
is
there
any
mentall
reseruation
to
be
found
.
Christ
it
was
that
spake
these
words
,
and
that
he
vsed
any
mentall
reseruation
,
is
most
false
.
Saint
Mathew
repeates
this
charge
or
doctrine
of
our
Sauiours
more
largely
,
Goe
teach
(
sayth
our
Sauiour
)
all
Nations
,
baptising
them
in
the
name
of
the
Father
,
the
Sonne
,
and
the
Holy-ghost
:
and
he
addeth
;
Commaunding
them
to
obserue
all
things
that
I
haue
commanded
you
:
which
word
Nations
,
Saint
Marke
omitteth
,
but
Mathew
plainely
vttereth
,
speaking
of
the
fulfilling
of
Gods
will
,
for
that
Christ
commanded
:
&
therefore
it
is
plaine
,
that
heere
is
no
mentall
reseruation
vsed
.
The
question
heere
is
,
whether
the
Euangelist
,
which
repeated
not
all
the
words
of
Christ
,
vsed
any
mentall
reseruation
?
No
,
for
that
which
is
necessarily
to
bee
vnderstood
,
by
the
whole
drift
of
the
Author
,
and
coherence
of
matter
,
is
not
reserued
,
although
it
bee
not
expressed
with
so
many
words
;
which
euen
Boyes
doe
know
;
quod
necessariò
subintelligitur
,
non
deest
:
that
which
is
necessarily
vnderstood
,
is
not
wanting
,
or
reserued
,
but
all
one
as
if
it
were
expressed
.
I
heere
appeale
to
one
of
their
owne
authors
,
who
writing
vpon
this
place
,
saith
;
that
this
very
speech
of
our
Samours
,
Hee
which
belcoueth
,
and
is
baptized
,
shall
be
saued
:
And
that
of
the
Prophet
Ioel
,
Whosoeuer
calles
on
the
Name
of
the
Lord
,
shall
be
saued
:
And
that
of
our
Sauiour
,
Euery
one
that
asketh
,
receiueth
:
and
in
a
word
,
all
such
generall
Sentences
,
haue
a
condition
annexed
vnto
them
,
and
that
necessarily
to
be
vnderstood
:
which
conditions
,
because
they
are
both
in
other
places
of
Scripture
clearely
expressed
:
and
that
Christian
men
are
supposed
at
their
very
entrance
to
beleeue
them
;
(
for
he
that
commeth
to
him
,
must
beleeue
,
that
he
is
a
rewarder
of
such
as
seeke
him
,
)
cannot
be
sayd
to
be
reserued
.
They
,
I
meane
our
Aduersaries
,
speake
one
thing
,
and
think
another
,
or
reserue
some
thing
to
their
owne
meaning
,
which
is
vnpossible
for
any
man
else
to
know
what
it
is
:
But
the
Scripture
setteth
downe
plainely
all
things
necessary
to
saluation
;
for
either
they
are
there
expressed
,
or
no
way
;
and
therefore
,
to
cloake
their
dissimulation
before
men
with
pretence
of
Scripture
,
is
to
condemne
the
Scripture
of
insufficiencie
,
to
wrest
them
to
the
defence
of
Heresie
,
and
to
open
a
doore
to
Anabaptisme
.
For
if
the
letter
of
the
Scriptures
doe
not
containe
the
things
appertaining
to
saluation
;
if
out
of
the
words
wee
can
not
gather
their
meaning
,
then
the
interpretation
must
be
left
to
particular
reuelations
without
the
Word
,
and
to
this
,
doth
this
assertion
tend
,
which
by
no
meanes
may
be
endured
.
I
remember
,
sometimes
there
was
a
controuersie
betweene
Ierome
and
Austen
;
two
as
famous
men
as
euer
the
Latine-Church
had
;
it
was
about
an
interpretation
of
a
saying
of
S.
Paules
,
where
he
saith
,
That
he
withstood
Peter
to
his
face
,
S.
Ierome
thinkes
he
did
not
;
and
that
in
saying
so
,
he
vsed
a
kind
of
dispensation
:
and
thus
doth
Jerome
say
,
to
stoppe
the
mouth
of
Porphiry
.
But
S.
Augustine
writing
to
Ierome
,
tells
him
,
that
Paul
in
that
very
Epistle
maketh
this
protestation
,
Truth
,
in
whose
mouth
there
was
no
guile
;
and
the
holy
Scriptures
the
oracles
of
truth
,
wrested
to
the
defence
of
deceit
,
how
would
he
exclaime
at
such
dealing
?
But
if
any
shall
say
,
that
some
places
are
darke
&
obscure
;
I
grant
it
,
and
say
,
that
notwithstanding
it
is
so
,
(
for
,
Ad
edomandum
labore
superbiam
,
&
ad
intellectum
à
fastidio
reuocandum
,
cui
inuestigata
pleraque
vilescunt
:
To
tame
the
pride
of
man
,
to
make
him
better
esteeme
of
the
truth
when
he
hath
it
,
God
hath
wrapped
vp
some
places
of
Scripture
in
difficulty
)
yet
,
if
we
will
speake
truly
,
the
darknes
is
not
so
much
in
the
Scriptures
,
as
in
our
harts
.
Senecaes
wife
had
a
she-foole
,
who
being
blind
,
would
yet
not
acknowledge
it
,
but
sayd
the
house
was
darke
,
and
therefore
she
could
not
see
:
Such
a
foole
S.
Ierome
saith
himselfe
was
,
who
for
a
long
time
could
not
relish
the
scriptures
,
but
delighted
more
in
the
workes
of
Orators
and
Philosophers
,
and
when
I
was
blinde
and
sawe
not
the
light
,
saith
he
,
I
thought
the
fault
was
not
in
me
,
but
in
the
Sunne
.
And
such
fooles
are
they
,
who
when
they
should
condemne
the
hardnes
of
their
hearts
,
lay
all
the
fault
vpon
the
hardnes
of
the
Scriptures
.
For
as
Master
Luther
saith
:
In
some
respects
,
all
things
are
hard
&
darke
in
the
Scriptures
;
in
some
respects
,
all
things
are
easy
:
They
are
hard
to
flesh
and
bloud
,
for
they
cannot
bee
assented
to
,
till
God
open
the
eyes
of
our
hearts
,
as
he
did
to
his
disciples
:
but
all
things
are
set
downe
in
termes
plaine
inough
,
so
we
vse
diligence
to
vnderstand
them
.
I
say
all
things
,
all
the
mysteries
of
Religion
,
without
(
as
they
call
it
)
any
mentall
reseruation
.
Yet
so
besotted
are
they
with
this
foolish
deuice
of
theirs
,
as
that
they
stumble
euen
at
the
plainest
Scriptures
.
S.
Mathew
reports
,
that
when
our
Sauiour
cometh
to
iudgement
,
he
shall
say
to
the
reprobate
;
Nescio
vos
,
I
know
you
not
:
and
heere
saith
the
Friar
,
Christ
vseth
a
mentall
reseruation
,
wherein
I
know
not
,
whether
they
are
more
ridiculous
or
impious
.
For
Christ
there
alludeth
to
an
vsual
forme
of
speech
amongst
the
Jewes
,
who
when
they
misliked
a
man
,
gaue
him
a
Nescio
,
that
is
,
I
know
you
not
:
Which
form
of
speech
is
vsed
at
this
day
by
many
:
&
consuetudo
vocabuli
,
vita
vocabuli
:
The
custome
of
speech
,
is
the
life
of
a
speech
.
Neither
could
our
Sauiour
more
significantly
haue
expressed
his
minde
or
purpose
of
reiecting
them
,
then
in
saying
,
Nescio
vos
;
so
far
was
he
from
equiuocation
or
mentall
reseruation
.
When
we
tell
them
,
Hoc
est
corpus
meum
,
This
is
my
body
,
is
figuratiuely
to
be
vnderstoode
;
they
say
,
figures
are
not
vsed
in
matters
of
Wills
,
which
ought
to
be
plaine
:
and
can
they
not
remember
,
how
the
sentence
of
Iudges
ought
to
be
plaine
?
But
these
men
(
in
some
respect
)
may
be
pardoned
;
for
,
because
they
,
when
they
are
cited
,
&
appeare
at
the
Barre
,
doe
equiuocate
and
dissemble
;
they
think
also
,
that
when
Christ
shall
come
to
iudgement
,
and
pronounce
sentence
of
saluation
or
damnation
,
he
shal
speak
doubtfully
.
But
God
be
mercifull
to
vs
,
and
make
vs
of
the
number
of
those
to
whom
he
shall
say
;
Come
ye
blessed
of
my
Father
:
For
certainly
,
they
to
whom
it
shal
be
said
,
Nescio
,
I
know
you
not
,
shall
not
only
vnderstand
it
,
but
feele
it
:
they
shall
not
neede
a
Commentary
to
know
the
meaning
of
our
Sauiour
,
whose
words
they
grossely
&
childishly
wrest
to
the
maintenance
and
defence
of
their
deceit
.
I
am
loath
to
wade
further
;
and
had
not
this
violence
bin
vsed
,
to
this
Text
,
I
should
haue
abstained
at
this
time
:
and
therefore
I
will
conclude
this
point
with
the
end
of
the
15.
Psalme
,
adding
withall
S.
Jeromes
obseruation
on
it
.
He
in
the
15.
Psalme
describing
a
righteous
man
,
addeth
,
among
other
things
,
Who
sweareth
to
his
neighbour
,
and
disappointeth
him
not
,
though
it
were
to
his
hindrance
:
Such
a
man
saith
Dauid
,
shall
stand
in
the
Tabernacle
of
the
Lord
.
By
which
is
meant
,
not
onely
him
that
sweareth
promissoriê
,
that
taketh
a
promissory
oath
,
but
euen
he
that
sweareth
assertiuè
,
that
formally
affirmeth
or
denyeth
any
thing
by
oath
.
He
that
sweareth
,
whether
in
promising
a
thing
to
come
,
or
in
affirming
a
thing
past
,
shall
stand
in
the
Tabernacle
,
&
then
he
concludes
,
He
that
doth
this
,
shall
neuer
be
moued
.
Out
of
which
S.
Jerome
inferres
this
:
therefore
he
that
doth
,
shall
be
moued
.
If
he
that
sweareth
,
and
that
truly
,
shall
stand
in
the
Tabernacle
;
then
he
that
forsweareth
himselfe
,
that
eludeth
all
others
by
lying
and
dissembling
,
and
such
trickes
,
as
the
Heathen
man
did
abhorre
,
shall
not
stand
in
the
Tabernacle
.
Sure
I
am
,
it
is
no
way
to
get
Heauen
;
the
whole
Scripture
,
from
the
beginning
to
the
ending
,
in
euery
place
condemneth
fraude
,
lying
,
periurie
,
and
such
like
vanitie
;
extolling
sincerity
,
truth
,
plain-dealing
,
both
in
word
and
deed
:
this
is
the
Lawe
and
the
Prophets
:
this
in
euery
lease
is
contained
,
&
thus
it
becommeth
men
,
who
are
baptized
in
the
name
of
the
Father
,
the
Sonne
,
and
the
Holy-ghost
.
God
is
the
Author
of
truth
,
and
those
that
are
of
him
,
will
say
truth
;
the
Diuell
is
the
father
of
lies
,
and
his
children
they
are
that
practise
that
trade
.
And
because
I
haue
tolde
you
,
that
there
are
particular
dueties
,
giue
mee
leaue
,
I
pray
you
,
to
be
somewhat
particular
,
as
the
Text
,
the
Time
,
and
this
present
honorable
Audience
doth
(
in
some
sort
)
require
.
It
were
a
simplicitie
,
or
rather
folly
,
to
thinke
it
were
impossible
,
to
be
both
a
Courtier
,
and
a
Christian
.
S.
Iohn
Baptist
was
a
Courtier
;
for
though
he
kept
in
the
wildernesse
,
yet
sometimes
he
came
to
the
Court
:
He
was
in
good
grace
with
Herod
,
who
heard
him
gladly
:
and
,
could
he
haue
flattered
,
he
might
haue
obtained
any
preferment
or
honour
in
the
Court
:
but
he
was
plaine
,
and
told
the
truth
.
He
was
not
of
his
opinion
that
said
,
Lex
alia
est
solio
,
alia
priuato
,
that
which
was
adultery
in
a
priuate
man
,
could
not
be
adultery
in
a
Prince
.
Daniel
and
Ezra
,
and
many
others
were
great
Courtiers
,
in
high
fauour
with
their
princes
.
How
did
they
vse
their
fauour
?
Surely
,
but
little
to
their
owne
preferment
,
wholely
to
the
benefite
of
the
Church
of
God
,
and
their
Country
.
Saint
Ierome
reporteth
of
one
who
was
the
Emperours
Nephew
,
and
yet
neuer
asked
any
thing
of
the
Emperour
.
It
were
to
be
wished
,
that
men
of
eminent
place
,
great
birth
,
and
in
high
fauour
,
would
know
,
that
it
is
one
part
of
their
duty
to
imploy
their
greatnes
to
the
good
and
behoofe
of
the
Church
of
God
and
their
country
,
and
that
God
doth
require
this
of
them
,
as
a
speciall
duty
.
It
cannot
bee
offensiue
(
I
hope
)
to
haue
admonished
thus
much
.
The
second
thing
,
is
that
,
which
in
particular
pertaineth
to
women
,
who
(
for
the
most
part
)
are
the
chiefest
in
this
assembly
,
at
this
time
,
and
if
I
speake
not
to
them
,
to
whom
should
I
speake
?
But
what
should
I
say
?
Tertullian
hath
written
many
Bookes
against
the
brauery
of
that
sexe
:
amongst
other
things
,
he
saith
,
That
siluer
,
golde
,
and
precious
stones
,
were
first
found
out
by
Sathan
:
and
that
forasmuch
as
in
Baptisme
they
professe
to
renounce
the
diuell
and
all
his
works
,
the
ornaments
and
attire
they
weare
,
is
against
their
vow
in
Baptisme
:
But
heere
I
am
not
altogether
of
his
mind
:
For
the
things
themselues
are
the
good
creaturs
of
God
,
and
may
be
vsed
,
so
that
the
minde
be
not
wickedly
puffed
vp
,
scandall
be
auoyded
,
and
decency
both
in
respect
of
person
and
condition
bee
kept
.
Yet
in
one
thing
,
I
thinke
,
women
cannot
bee
excused
,
and
that
is
in
painting
of
themselues
;
which
howsoeuer
some
defend
,
the
most
religious
and
learned
Fathers
haue
condemned
.
Cyprian
sayth
,
that
they
which
paint
themselues
,
doe
(
in
a
sort
)
make
Christ
a
lier
:
For
,
whereas
our
Sauiour
sayth
,
Yee
cannot
make
one
haire
black
or
white
,
they
haue
a
mean
to
make
them
all
of
what
colour
they
list
.
Another
saith
,
that
when
a
Carpenter
or
Ioyner
hath
made
a
peece
of
work
,
he
will
not
thinke
well
that
any
should
discommend
it
,
or
rend
and
deface
it
:
And
is
it
not
a
disgrace
,
when
God
hath
framed
and
fashioned
vs
well
,
but
wee
must
ouer-lay
Gods
worke
with
the
diuels
colours
?
How
this
may
stand
with
your
Christian
profession
,
with
your
vow
in
Baptisme
,
with
the
modesty
of
that
Sexe
,
I
know
not
.
I
know
that
Figge-tree
leaues
are
found
out
,
to
shadow
this
fault
;
but
(
in
my
opinion
)
it
is
but
to
lay
colour
vpon
colour
,
to
finde
out
Figge-tree
leaues
to
couer
nakednesse
withall
:
How
much
better
were
it
for
Ladies
,
according
to
the
Apostles
counsaile
,
to
array
themselues
with
good-workes
,
to
diminish
something
of
their
brauery
,
that
they
might
be
better
able
to
exercise
the
deedes
of
Charity
,
as
Dorcas
did
?
This
(
as
I
haue
said
)
is
a
generall
duety
,
to
which
all
of
vs
are
bound
,
without
distinction
of
sexe
or
degree
,
and
that
by
our
very
vow
in
Baptisme
,
in
which
we
are
made
Christs
souldiers
:
For
though
women
be
priuiledged
from
bearing
of
Armes
,
and
from
the
performance
of
Military
seruice
,
yet
Christs
souldiers
they
are
as
well
as
others
,
and
bound
to
fight
against
the
World
,
the
Flesh
,
and
the
Diuell
;
bound
to
serue
God
in
the
generall
duety
of
all
Christians
,
and
in
the
particular
duty
which
their
sexe
and
calling
requires
:
And
hereof
I
suppose
you
are
not
ignorant
.
The
Apostle
,
Be
as
one
that
careth
for
the
things
of
the
Lord
,
how
thou
mayst
please
God
.
Art
thou
a
Wife
?
Submit
thy selfe
to
thy
husband
,
as
is
comely
in
the
Lord
.
Art
thou
a
Widowe
?
Remember
that
the
Widow
that
liueth
in
pleasure
,
is
dead
.
Here
a
question
is
moued
,
which
of
these
estates
is
the
best
;
but
,
(
in
my
opinion
)
a
curious
one
,
and
not
meete
to
bee
handled
,
especially
at
this
time
:
For
they
are
all
good
,
and
commendable
,
each
of
them
hath
seuerall
dueties
appertaining
;
in
performing
whereof
,
they
shall
haue
more
honour
in
the
eyes
of
men
,
more
reward
with
God
,
then
for
al
other
the
nicenesses
and
trimnesse
of
the
bodie
whatsoeuer
.
But
,
to
shut
vp
all
in
a
word
;
as
our
Sauiour
doth
promise
saluation
to
him
that
is
baptized
;
so
heere
on
the
contrary
,
he
saith
,
But
hee
that
is
not
baptized
,
shall
be
damned
.
Out
of
which
some
haue
inferred
,
that
Baptisme
is
not
simply
necessary
to
saluation
:
Which
doctrine
,
although
I
take
to
be
very
true
,
yet
is
it
not
absolute
nor
rightly
collected
out
of
this
place
:
For
our
Sauiour
doth
not
in
this
,
ouerthrow
that
which
he
spake
in
the
former
:
and
we
must
holde
a
coniunction
of
both
these
,
I
meane
Faith
and
Baptisme
,
both
being
(
in
their
kinde
)
necessary
:
yet
,
as
I
said
,
not
so
,
but
that
in
some
cases
one
may
be
saued
,
without
either
Faith
or
Baptisme
.
Some
haue
no
faith
,
and
yet
are
saued
:
For
,
what
actuall
faith
haue
Infants
?
Some
think
there
is
actuall
faith
in
them
;
from
which
I
suppose
S.
Augustine
doth
not
much
swarue
:
Others
haue
had
Faith
,
but
not
Baptisme
,
as
Valentinian
,
and
yet
were
saued
:
Some
haue
neither
had
Faith
nor
Baptisme
,
and
yet
were
saued
,
as
children
deceased
before
they
could
come
to
receiue
Baptisme
:
It
is
the
ordinarie
meanes
of
Regeneration
,
and
therefore
not
to
be
contemned
,
not
to
be
deferred
;
for
howsoeuer
GOD
is
powerfull
enough
without
meanes
to
regenerate
,
and
bring
to
saluation
;
yet
those
holy
meanes
which
himselfe
hath
appointed
&
sanctified
to
that
purpose
,
must
by
no
meanes
be
contemned
nor
neglected
:
For
,
He
that
beleeueth
,
and
is
baptized
,
shal
be
saued
.
Which
fauour
God
grant
vs
all
,
for
his
Christs
sake
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.
Seeke
to
finde
.
LVKE
24.5
.
Why
seeke
yee
Him
that
liueth
,
among
the
dead
?
THe
blessed
and
deuout
Maries
,
seeking
our
Sauiour
at
his
Sepulchre
earely
in
the
morning
,
are
encountered
with
this
Angelicall
checke
;
Why
seeke
ye
Him
that
liueth
,
among
the
dead
?
A
question
that
might
easily
trouble
persons
of
so
weake
a
sexe
,
at
that
season
,
and
out
of
the
mouth
of
an
Angell
too
:
But
though
they
were
amased
at
the
sodainnesse
of
the
voice
,
yet
was
not
their
zeale
cooled
from
seeking
him
whom
their
soules
loued
.
In
this
question
of
the
Angells
are
two
things
to
be
considered
.
First
,
a
reprehension
of
their
errour
:
Secondly
,
a
consolation
for
their
labour
.
First
,
the
reprehension
and
checke
which
the
Angells
gaue
to
these
holy
women
,
for
seeking
Christ
among
the
dead
,
was
not
without
iust
cause
,
for
it
was
an
erronious
seeking
.
All
of
vs
are
seekers
,
and
(
in
some
sort
)
seekers
of
Christ
too
;
but
,
few
of
vs
doe
finde
him
,
Because
wee
seeke
him
amisse
.
The
errours
then
where-into
men
vsually
fall
in
seeking
Christ
,
must
be
narrowly
obserued
,
that
they
may
the
better
be
auoyded
.
The
first
errour
men
doe
commit
in
seeking
of
Christ
,
is
committed
in
the
Time
.
The
time
assigned
vs
,
for
to
seeke
Christ
,
is
the
terme
of
this
life
;
which
opportunity
,
if
we
neglect
,
it
is
impossible
wee
should
euer
obtaine
our
desires
,
in
finding
Christ
:
For
after
death
,
There
remayneth
no
sacrifice
for
sinne
,
but
a
fearefull
expectation
of
iudgement
,
and
violent
fire
,
which
shall
deuoure
the
Aduersaries
.
Therefore
the
Apostle
willeth
,
Whilest
we
haue
time
,
we
doe
good
to
all
men
,
especially
to
the
houshold
of
faith
.
There
are
twelue
houres
in
the
day
,
If
a
man
walke
in
the
day
,
he
stumbleth
not
,
because
he
seeth
the
light
of
this
world
.
It
becommeth
vs
then
not
to
loose
the
season
of
seeking
,
and
herein
to
apprehend
the
fittest
opportunity
.
For
though
I
will
not
deny
,
but
Christ
may
be
found
at
any
time
,
whilest
wee
liue
,
yet
there
is
a
difference
of
times
;
God
is
debter
to
no
man
:
and
if
hee
should
subtract
his
grace
vniuersally
from
vs
,
yet
no
man
could
iustly
complaine
of
him
,
why
he
had
done
so
:
but
God
in
mercie
doth
dispence
his
graces
,
and
knockes
at
the
doores
of
our
hearts
,
desiring
to
be
let
in
:
yet
not
at
all
times
,
but
at
certaine
seasons
,
according
to
the
dispensation
which
seemeth
fittest
to
himselfe
:
At
which
time
and
season
,
if
wee
harden
our
hearts
,
how
know
wee
whether
the
like
mercy
will
be
offered
againe
?
and
therefore
we
must
with
all
carefulnesse
embrace
such
times
and
opportunities
,
when
hee
doth
knocke
at
the
doores
of
our
hearts
.
The
custome
of
most
of
vs
,
is
to
deferre
the
seeking
of
God
to
our
olde
age
,
and
to
confecrate
our
youth
to
sinne
,
to
tender
our
decrepite
yeares
to
God
,
and
the
crop
and
creame
of
our
youth
to
sinne
and
sathan
,
not
remembring
the
counsel
of
Salomon
,
Nay
,
do
we
not
deferre
the
seeking
of
Christ
to
the
last
moment
?
to
the
last
act
of
our
life
?
And
what
can
be
more
vaine
?
For
,
as
Augustine
speakes
most
truely
:
Qui
remittit
poenitenti
peccatum
,
non
promittit
peccanti
vitam
:
God
which
promiseth
the
penitent
sinner
forgiuenesse
,
doth
not
promise
him
length
of
life
,
or
any
certaine
number
of
yeares
.
How
many
are
cut
off
when
they
least
thought
of
it
?
Doth
not
the
incertainty
and
frailety
of
our
estate
tell
vs
so
much
euery
day
?
and
therefore
,
not
onely
while
as
yet
we
liue
,
we
must
seeke
him
,
but
we
must
not
neglect
any
time
;
yea
we
must
with
expedition
accept
any
occasion
of
seeking
Christ
;
for
wee
know
not
if
euer
hee
will
knocke
at
our
doores
againe
.
The
second
error
men
commit
in
seeking
of
Christ
,
is
in
the
manner
;
it
is
long
ere
wee
beginne
to
seeke
him
,
whom
we
should
seeke
before
all
things
;
but
when
wee
doe
begin
to
seeke
,
it
is
after
a
negligent
and
carelesse
manner
,
as
if
the
matter
were
not
great
whether
found
him
,
or
no.
Seeke
first
the
Kingdome
of
God
:
and
by
First
is
meant
,
not
a
priority
in
order
,
and
the
anticipation
of
time
,
but
a
priority
in
the
earnestnes
or
intention
of
our
minde
:
as
if
he
should
haue
said
,
Seeke
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
,
not
onely
before
all
things
,
but
aboue
all
things
,
with
greater
vehemencie
and
affection
,
then
you
doe
any
other
thing
in
the
world
besides
.
This
is
the
meaning
of
our
Sauiour
,
and
so
much
doth
the
words
of
our
Sauiour
import
:
Hee
that
would
finde
Christ
,
must
seeke
him
zealously
,
with
feruour
and
heate
:
For
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
suffereth
violence
,
&
the
violent
take
it
by
force
:
And
after
we
haue
found
him
,
then
we
must
seeke
how
to
keepe
him
too
.
To
which
purpose
Tertullian
hath
a
notable
admonition
;
and
very
fit
for
our
times
:
in
which
many
are
like
vnto
children
,
Carried
about
with
euerie
blast
of
doctrine
;
or
like
those
women
who
were
euer
learning
,
;
euer
seeking
and
neuer
finding
,
because
when
they
haue
found
,
they
loose
that
they
haue
found
;
either
of
too
much
curiositie
in
seeking
,
or
of
too
much
inconstancie
in
relecting
,
and
learning
to
seeke
;
of
whom
Tertullian
thus
speaketh
.
Our
Sauiour
saith
,
Seeke
,
and
yee
shall
finde
,
knocke
,
&
it
shal
be
opened
vnto
you
,
aske
,
and
it
shall
be
giuen
:
The
true
vnderstanding
of
which
place
,
saith
he
,
consists
in
three
points
;
For
our
Sauiour
speaketh
this
,
Jnipsis
doctrinae
primitijs
,
when
first
he
began
to
teach
,
when
hee
was
yet
scarce
knowne
to
his
Disciples
,
while
as
yet
Peter
had
not
acknowledged
him
to
be
the
Sonne
of
God
;
and
so
most
peculiarly
,
saith
he
,
doth
the
speech
belong
to
the
Iewes
,
who
did
not
acknowledge
Christ
to
be
the
Messias
,
and
therefore
were
willed
to
seeke
:
He
addeth
further
,
admit
it
be
spoken
to
vs
,
as
in
truth
it
is
,
yet
,
saith
he
,
it
hath
his
bounds
,
and
the
true
vnderstanding
of
these
words
consists
in
three
points
;
in
re
,
in
tempore
,
in
modo
;
in
the
thing
,
in
the
time
,
in
the
manner
.
The
diuision
is
not
much
vnlike
that
of
Bernard
;
that
is
,
saith
he
,
we
must
vnderstand
what
it
is
wee
seeke
,
how
wee
seeke
,
and
when
wee
are
to
seeke
it
:
That
which
we
ought
to
seeke
,
is
Christ
,
and
we
ought
to
seeke
him
till
we
finde
him
;
Et
invenisti
cùm
credidisti
;
and
then
thou
hast
found
him
,
when
thou
hast
beleeued
in
him
;
and
then
seeke
how
thou
mayest
keepe
him
;
for
no
man
,
saith
he
,
seeketh
,
but
he
which
either
neuer
had
Christ
,
or
else
hath
lost
him
.
I
speake
this
,
to
stop
the
mouths
of
some
,
who
with
more
insolency
then
confidency
,
desire
,
that
things
in
controuersie
may
be
disputed
of
;
which
,
according
to
the
sence
in
which
they
desire
it
,
were
to
seeke
for
that
which
(
indeede
)
wee
haue
found
,
and
which
without
curiositie
or
distrusting
wee
ought
to
maintayne
,
euen
with
the
perill
of
our
liues
:
As
wee
haue
learned
Christ
,
so
let
vs
goe
on
,
rooted
and
grounded
in
Charitie
,
and
not
be
moued
from
the
profession
of
our
most
holy
Faith
:
Neither
let
vs
giue
eare
to
those
,
who
vnder
pretence
,
either
of
truth
in
Religion
,
or
sincerity
in
Ceremonie
,
would
alienate
your
mindes
from
that
obedience
and
gouernement
in
which
you
haue
been
trayned
vp
in
Christ
Iesus
:
Wee
presume
,
that
we
haue
found
Christ
so
farre
forth
;
now
our
endeuour
is
,
and
must
be
,
to
keepe
him
,
not
onely
in
our
heads
,
by
speculation
,
that
in
our
hearts
,
by
affection
;
to
which
purpose
,
I
shall
speake
more
in
conuenient
place
.
The
third
errour
men
commit
,
in
seeking
after
Christ
,
is
,
that
they
seeke
him
not
in
the
place
they
should
seeke
him
.
This
is
the
errour
committed
by
these
holy
women
,
for
which
the
Angels
blamed
them
;
and
therefore
a
little
longer
to
be
insisted
vpon
.
And
this
error
may
be
collected
easily
and
plainly
,
from
the
speach
of
our
Sauiour
in
the
Gospell
,
who
telleth
vs
,
That
false
Christs
,
On
which
place
,
Doctor
Stapleton
writing
,
according
to
his
virulent
manner
,
sayth
,
it
is
accomplished
in
our
teachers
,
who
leauing
the
right
way
,
the
Kings
high-way
,
the
auncient
and
Apostolike
Church
,
doe
seeke
after
Christ
in
corners
,
in
the
wildernesse
of
our
owne
wandring
imaginations
,
and
amongst
such
Apostataes
,
who
challenge
to
themselues
the
name
of
the
Church
:
But
the
truth
is
,
it
is
much
better
fulfilled
amongst
them
,
who
confine
Christ
vnto
a
certayne
place
,
and
thinke
he
cannot
be
found
out
of
the
limits
of
their
Churches
In
times
past
,
the
visible
Church
was
in
one
Kingdome
,
I
meane
,
among
the
Iewes
:
Notus
in
Iudaea
Deus
:
God
is
well
knowne
in
Jewrie
:
But
now
the
time
is
come
which
our
Sauiour
spake
of
;
The
houre
commeth
,
and
now
is
,
that
the
true
worshippers
shall
worship
the
Father
in
Spirit
and
truth
.
And
this
was
long
fore-told
by
the
Prophets
,
and
namely
,
the
Prophet
Malachy
,
From
the
rising
of
the
Sunne
,
vnto
the
going
downe
of
the
same
,
my
Name
is
great
among
the
Gentiles
;
By
which
is
meant
,
the
calling
of
the
Gentiles
:
And
therefore
,
they
are
iniurious
to
binde
Christ
to
Rome
;
and
absurd
also
,
seeing
in
their
Creede
,
they
insert
these
words
;
I
beleeue
the
Romaine
Catholike
Church
.
For
,
the
Catholike
Church
,
is
the
vniuersall
society
of
all
the
Faithfull
or
Elect
,
both
of
men
and
Angells
:
the
Romaine
Church
is
but
a
particular
Church
,
as
the
Church
of
England
or
France
is
;
though
(
to
speake
the
trueth
)
sometimes
a
flourishing
Church
;
That
their
Faith
was
published
throughout
the
whole
world
.
One
of
the
originall
or
mother-churches
:
a
Church
(
for
her
constancie
in
the
Faith
)
reuerenced
of
other
Churches
:
But
now
,
the
case
is
altered
,
The
faithfull
Citie
is
become
a
Harlot
;
Iustice
&
Iudgement
lodged
in
her
;
but
now
,
those
that
shined
as
gold
are
as
blacke
as
pitch
:
And
therefore
,
to
seeke
after
Christ
in
Rome
,
is
not
conuenient
,
much
lesse
to
appropriate
the
truth
to
the
Church
of
Rome
:
and
yet
I
will
not
deny
,
but
many
in
the
Romaine
Church
appertaine
to
Christ
,
who
grone
vnder
that
grosse
superstition
;
&
Papisme
it selfe
is
not
a
totall
defection
,
but
an
aberration
from
Christ
,
though
a
grosse
one
:
neither
is
there
any
cause
,
why
they
should
obiect
vnto
vs
our
paucity
,
who
neither
are
so
few
as
they
would
haue
vs
to
be
esteemed
;
and
yet
if
we
were
,
we
know
that
trueth
is
not
to
be
measured
by
multitude
:
Thou
shalt
not
follow
a
multitude
to
doe
euill
.
For
the
most
part
,
euill
goeth
with
the
multitude
:
And
Gregory
Nazianzene
saith
,
That
to
esteeme
of
things
according
to
the
multitude
,
were
to
preferre
the
dust
of
the
earth
,
before
the
Stars
of
Heauen
;
to
neglect
Pearles
,
and
to
gather
pibble-stones
,
which
are
infinite
.
I
cannot
(
hasting
to
other
matters
)
prosecute
this
point
at
full
:
onely
this
I
wish
you
,
to
take
heede
of
the
confused
clamours
of
our
Aduersaries
,
in
whose
mouthes
nothing
is
more
frequent
,
then
,
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
,
the
Church
,
the
Faith
,
the
ancient
and
Apostolike
Sea
,
the
Chaire
that
cannot
erre
,
with
a
number
of
like
childish
vaunts
,
to
bring
vs
backe
vnto
Rome
,
as
if
Christ
were
no
where
to
be
found
but
there
,
where
indeede
hee
is
neither
so
soundly
nor
sincerely
as
he
ought
to
be
.
I
would
also
admonish
the
Schismatikes
,
who
according
to
the
praediction
of
our
Sauiour
,
say
,
Heere
is
Christ
,
and
there
is
Christ
;
and
with
them
is
Christ
,
&
no
where
else
is
Christ
;
euerie
Sect
challenging
to
themselues
the
name
of
Christ
,
and
thence
excluding
the
other
from
any
right
or
title
therein
.
But
this
occasion
requireth
other
matter
at
my
hands
,
and
therefore
leauing
other
errours
committed
in
seeking
Christ
,
out
of
due
place
,
I
come
to
that
which
is
heere
committed
by
the
Women
,
and
here
I
must
repeate
our
distinction
.
The
errours
,
saith
Bernard
,
committed
,
in
seeking
of
Christ
,
are
,
in
the
time
,
in
the
manner
,
in
the
place
:
of
which
three
errors
,
these
women
committed
onely
the
last
;
for
of
the
former
two
,
we
must
acquit
them
:
For
how
can
they
be
said
to
erre
in
the
time
,
who
so
earely
come
to
the
Sepulchre
to
finde
Christ
?
Christ
was
crucified
on
the
Friday
,
the
day
following
was
the
Sabboath
,
which
caused
them
to
rest
:
but
the
day
after
,
before
it
was
yet
light
,
neither
discouraged
with
the
darknesse
,
nor
caring
for
the
Watch
,
which
might
well
haue
amated
them
,
they
come
vnto
the
Sepulchre
to
finde
Christ
.
Neither
may
they
be
said
to
erre
in
that
manner
of
seeking
,
which
those
doe
commit
that
follow
Christ
in
the
Desart
,
not
for
the
Miracle
,
but
for
the
Meate
.
Many
there
are
,
that
are
like
vnto
these
;
the
Apostle
saith
,
Omnes
quae
sua
sunt
,
quaerunt
:
Euery
man
seekes
his
owne
,
and
not
that
which
is
Christs
:
But
these
holy
Women
,
when
Christ
was
now
dead
,
with
the
perill
of
their
liues
,
(
considering
the
malice
of
the
Iewes
)
with
the
expence
and
cost
of
their
goods
,
come
earely
to
the
Sepulchre
,
intending
to
performe
their
funerall
rites
vnto
Christ
.
And
heerein
(
for
their
zeale
and
loue
,
though
(
not
according
to
knowledge
)
they
deserue
,
if
not
commendation
,
yet
tolleration
.
The
errour
properly
committed
by
them
,
is
their
seeking
of
Christ
out
of
due
place
:
Cur
quaeritis
viuentem
inter
mortuos
?
Why
seeke
ye
him
that
liueth
,
among
the
dead
?
The
Sepulchre
or
Graue
,
is
domus
mortuorum
;
The
house
of
the
dead
,
inhabited
of
rotten
carkasses
:
in
which
it
was
vnpossible
that
Christ
should
either
remaine
or
putrifie
.
He
tolde
them
,
That
hee
would
rise
the
third
day
;
which
they
forgetting
,
or
not
beleeuing
,
come
with
their
odours
to
embalme
him
,
and
to
that
end
,
doe
seeke
him
among
the
dead
:
For
which
cause
,
the
Angell
doth
somewhat
taxe
them
:
Cur
quaeritis
viuentem
inter
mortuos
?
Why
seeke
yee
the
liuing
among
the
dead
?
This
is
their
errour
,
about
the
place
;
and
so
is
it
ours
to
,
and
much
more
grosse
:
and
I
now
speake
of
the
ordinarie
errours
committed
,
call
them
how
you
will
,
either
in
the
manner
of
seeking
;
or
about
the
place
.
Christ
,
when
they
did
seeke
him
,
was
risen
,
but
he
was
not
yet
ascended
:
but
now
heis
both
risen
and
ascended
,
sitting
on
the
right
hand
of
God
,
That
they
minded
earthly
things
;
then
the
which
,
nothing
is
more
opposite
to
the
finding
of
Christ
.
Christ
,
as
he
is
God
,
filleth
all
places
;
as
hee
is
Man
,
hee
is
contained
in
one
place
;
namely
,
in
Heauen
,
where
is
the
Kingdome
of
Glorie
:
where
our
affections
,
desires
,
and
thoughts
,
ought
to
be
.
For
if
we
seeke
him
on
earth
,
who
now
raignes
in
Heauen
,
wee
shall
neuer
finde
him
.
Men
naturally
looke
vp-wards
to
heauen
,
whereas
the
beast
looks
downe
wards
:
But
is
it
not
absurd
,
that
with
the
eyes
of
our
bodies
,
we
should
looke
vp-wards
,
and
with
the
eyes
of
our
hearts
looke
downe-wards
?
Yet
so
it
is
:
which
he
saith
,
is
,
to
transforme
the
Image
of
God
,
into
the
Image
of
a
Beast
:
and
thus
speaketh
he
to
him
,
to
make
him
blush
for
shame
:
For
whereas
thou
art
made
streight
,
and
oughtest
to
looke
vp
to
heauen
;
thou
,
with
the
beasts
,
dost
creepe
on
the
earth
,
like
a
brutish
creature
,
&
so
art
become
beastiall
in
heart
,
in
the
stowping
of
thy
soule
to
the
earth
.
If
hee
did
thus
say
vnto
them
,
doe
not
wee
stand
in
need
to
stirre
vp
our selues
by
all
meanes
,
to
the
contemplation
of
the
heauenly
life
,
and
to
shake
off
this
earthlinesse
of
minde
?
The
Prophet
speaking
to
the
Iewes
,
begins
thus
;
Hearken
,
O
earth
,
earth
,
earth
;
three
times
repeated
:
May
it
not
be
said
to
many
of
vs
,
who
are
nothing
but
earth
?
Earth
in
respect
of
body
,
earth
in
respect
of
our
thoughts
,
which
are
onely
occupied
about
earth
,
and
earthly
matters
,
how
wee
may
make
here
and
there
a
purchase
,
ioyning
house
to
house
,
and
land
to
land
,
as
the
Prophet
speaketh
,
euen
till
there
be
no
roome
left
.
Some
will
obiect
:
Doe
you
condemne
purchasing
?
No
:
then
were
I
very
simple
;
I
know
that
buying
and
selling
are
lawfull
contracts
,
as
necessary
as
eating
and
drinking
are
:
But
giue
mee
leaue
,
I
pray
you
,
to
put
you
in
remembrance
of
our
Sauiours
words
;
Let
not
your
hearts
be
oppressed
with
surfetting
and
drunkennesse
,
and
cares
of
this
life
:
And
of
the
Apostles
words
;
That
they
that
vse
this
world
,
be
as
though
they
vsed
it
not
;
for
the
fashion
of
this
world
goeth
away
:
Where
the
Apostle
compares
vs
to
Actors
,
and
the
world
to
a
Stage
,
which
must
shortly
be
remoued
.
Therefore
we
may
vse
these
things
so
farre
forth
,
as
they
are
helpes
vnto
vs
in
our
seeking
of
Christ
,
but
to
set
our
affections
on
them
;
and
for
loue
of
these
,
to
neglect
the
dueties
of
Christianity
,
is
heere
to
seeke
Christ
on
earth
,
who
now
raigneth
in
heauen
.
I
will
adde
but
one
thing
,
and
so
end
this
point
;
The
Prophet
saith
:
That
God
stretcheth
out
the
earth
,
and
the
Buddes
thereof
,
hee
giueth
breath
vnto
the
people
vpon
it
,
and
his
Spirit
,
Calcantibus
eam
,
to
those
that
treade
vpon
it
:
which
Text
is
diuersly
expounded
;
But
Saint
Augustine
,
among
others
,
hath
a
notable
Meditation
,
or
rather
,
Interpretation
on
it
.
For
,
whereas
the
Prophet
saith
,
Hee
stretcheth
forth
the
earth
,
and
giueth
breath
vnto
the
people
,
and
his
Spirit
to
them
that
tread
on
it
;
his
meaning
is
,
that
he
communicates
the
graces
of
his
Spirit
,
to
such
as
contemne
the
earth
and
earthly
things
.
The
heauen
of
heauens
appertains
to
God
,
but
the
earth
hee
hath
giuen
to
the
children
of
men
,
who
treade
it
vnder
their
feet
.
If
then
we
would
finde
Christ
,
we
must
treade
on
it
with
the
feete
of
our
affections
:
I
meane
,
contemne
and
trample
it
vnder
foote
,
as
we
doe
those
things
we
care
not
for
;
because
he
giueth
his
Spirit
,
as
the
Prophet
saith
,
Calcantibus
eam
,
To
those
that
treade
on
it
;
that
is
,
that
doe
not
reckon
or
esteeme
it
,
but
euen
treade
it
vnder
their
feete
,
and
contemne
it
:
Qui
amore
Coelestium
,
terrena
contemnunt
:
For
the
loue
of
heauen
do
despise
earthly
things
,
and
all
the
wealth
and
glory
thereof
;
to
them
,
saith
he
,
and
to
them
onely
doth
God
giue
his
Spirit
.
In
this
manner
let
vs
liue
on
earth
,
not
as
men
bewitched
&
besotted
with
the
earth
,
but
as
contemners
and
tramplers
on
the
earth
;
hauing
our
feete
walking
on
the
earth
,
but
our
Faith
and
Affections
dwelling
in
the
heauens
:
being
like
vnto
the
Cedar
,
which
Radicem
terris
,
comam
nubibus
inserit
,
Hath
his
roote
deepe
in
the
ground
,
but
toucheth
the
Cloudes
with
his
toppe
:
Or
to
the
Sunne-beames
,
which
do
shine
on
the
earth
,
yet
are
they
fastened
to
the
body
of
the
Sun
in
heauen
:
so
demeaning
our selues
on
earth
,
we
may
inioy
Christ
which
is
in
heauen
.
2.
I
haue
spoken
of
the
Text
as
it
is
Reprehensory
;
I
will
now
speake
of
it
,
as
it
is
Consolatory
,
to
the
women
seeking
Christ
,
and
also
to
all
such
,
who
liuing
on
earth
,
doe
notwithstanding
seeke
Christ
sitting
in
heauen
.
Quid
quaeritis
viuentem
inter
mortuos
?
(
saith
the
Angell
)
Why
seeke
yee
the
liuing
amongst
the
dead
?
which
words
containe
,
not
only
a
reprehension
,
but
also
a
consolation
,
of
singular
moment
.
For
the
women
comming
to
seeke
Christ
,
and
finding
the
Stone
rolled
away
,
and
the
Body
gone
,
(
which
is
plaine
by
the
speech
of
Mary
Magdalen
,
Tulerunt
Dominum
;
They
haue
taken
away
my
Lord
:
)
were
sore
discomforted
.
The
appearance
of
the
Angells
in
maiesty
,
as
it
is
likely
,
made
some
impression
of
feare
in
their
tender
hearts
:
which
the
Angels
perceiuing
,
doe
speake
comfortably
to
them
;
Feare
you
not
:
mixing
(
as
I
haue
said
)
Consolation
with
Reprehension
:
For
,
without
all
question
,
it
sounded
ioyfully
in
the
eares
of
the
women
,
who
being
perswaded
that
Christ
was
dead
;
and
hearing
the
Angell
tell
them
,
that
hee
was
aliue
,
that
hee
was
risen
,
could
not
,
but
be
greatly
comforted
,
when
they
heard
,
Quid
quaeritis
viuentem
inter
mortuos
?
Why
seeke
yee
the
liuing
among
the
dead
?
You
are
perswaded
that
he
is
dead
,
that
he
is
stolne
away
out
of
the
Graue
:
No
,
it
is
not
so
;
Christ
liueth
,
as
before
he
told
you
:
Goe
tell
his
brethren
,
that
he
goes
before
them
into
Galile
.
Was
not
this
(
thinke
you
)
a
comfortable
speach
to
women
oppressed
with
feare
and
griefe
?
The
words
then
of
the
Angell
were
,
not
onely
Reprehensory
,
but
Consolatory
:
not
to
them
onely
,
but
to
vs
also
,
for
whom
these
wordes
were
spoken
.
What
can
be
more
comfortable
then
to
consider
and
know
that
Christ
liueth
?
that
hee
is
ascended
?
that
he
sitteth
at
the
right
hand
of
God
in
maiesty
and
honour
?
When
Iacob
saw
the
Chariots
which
Ioseph
had
sent
to
carry
him
,
I
haue
enough
;
Ioseph
my
sonne
is
yet
aliue
:
But
how
much
greater
cause
haue
we
to
say
,
It
is
enough
for
vs
,
that
Christ
our
head
liueth
,
that
he
is
risen
againe
from
the
dead
?
Except
the
wheate
corne
fall
into
the
ground
,
and
die
,
it
abideth
alone
;
but
if
it
die
,
it
bringeth
forth
much
fruite
.
In
which
words
,
our
Sauiour
doth
expresse
the
fruite
of
his
Death
and
Resurrection
,
which
is
,
the
resurrection
of
all
those
that
sleep
in
the
dust
of
the
earth
:
for
though
Christus
resurrexit
solus
;
Christ
did
rise
alone
,
who
is
the
first
fruits
of
them
that
rise
;
yet
not
totus
,
all
Christ
did
not
arise
:
for
hee
is
the
head
and
we
are
his
members
,
who
are
now
raised
in
hope
,
and
shall
be
raised
,
verily
,
indeede
,
in
the
time
which
he
hath
appointed
,
and
liue
with
him
,
by
the
vertue
&
power
of
that
life
which
now
is
in
him
.
It
is
enough
for
vs
,
that
Christ
our
head
,
our
brother
liueth
,
hee
is
Bone
of
our
bone
,
and
Flesh
of
our
flesh
:
If
the
First-fruites
be
holy
,
then
is
the
whole
lumpe
holy
.
Neither
is
there
any
action
of
Christs
,
but
yeeldes
much
comfort
:
For
heere
,
he
died
for
our
sinnes
,
and
rose
againe
for
our
iustification
:
but
first
hee
was
buried
,
descended
into
the
Graue
,
which
is
,
domus
mortuorum
,
the
house
of
the
dead
,
where
hee
remayned
,
but
yet
as
liber
inter
mortuos
;
as
free
among
the
dead
.
The
women
did
seeke
him
in
the
Graue
,
to
which
Christ
descended
;
partly
to
proue
vnto
vs
,
the
verity
of
his
death
and
resurrection
;
partly
,
to
secure
vs
,
and
to
defend
vs
from
the
feare
of
the
Graue
,
into
the
which
(
for
our
sakes
)
the
Lord
descended
:
Jt
is
appoynted
for
all
men
once
to
die
,
And
wee
must
say
with
Iob
vnto
the
wormes
,
Thou
art
my
mother
and
sister
:
and
to
corruption
,
Thou
art
my
father
.
But
be
of
good
cheare
,
Christ
who
was
dead
,
now
liueth
;
he
that
was
in
the
graue
,
is
now
ascended
:
now
,
Vltra
non
dominatur
mors
;
Death
hath
no
dominion
ouer
him
;
but
he
hath
now
the
dominion
of
death
.
Hee
did
both
enter
into
his
graue
,
and
arise
againe
,
to
assure
vs
,
that
howsoeuer
our
bodies
may
putrifie
in
the
Graues
,
yet
God
shall
restore
them
againe
;
Et
fragile
hoc
lutum
in
purissimam
&
solidissimam
testam
excoquetur
:
This
house
of
Clay
shall
be
made
farre
firmer
then
Stone
,
more
glorious
then
Golde
or
any
such
corruptible
matter
.
Why
then
are
we
afraid
to
descend
into
the
graue
;
which
,
howsoeuer
in
it selfe
fearefull
,
yet
,
to
those
that
seeke
Christ
zealously
,
as
these
women
did
,
it
is
a
bed
of
rest
and
quietnesse
,
as
the
Prophet
calleth
it
,
or
a
Receptacle
or
Sanctuary
against
the
troubles
of
the
world
?
and
so
is
it
called
,
Christ
liueth
(
saith
the
Angell
)
and
as
a
Conqueror
of
death
,
he
is
risen
from
his
house
of
death
,
and
made
it
,
to
such
as
seeke
him
,
a
repose
,
a
rest
,
a
treasury
,
in
which
they
are
safely
kept
and
stored
vp
against
the
day
of
Resurrection
.
This
is
the
benefit
we
haue
by
Christs
liuing
;
by
his
rising
from
the
graue
:
As
his
resurrection
is
for
our
benefit
,
so
is
his
ascension
.
Jascend
(
saith
Christ
)
to
prepare
a
place
for
you
,
to
take
possession
of
Heauen
in
our
name
,
in
our
nature
:
and
here
he
sitteth
at
the
right
hand
of
God
,
pleading
our
cause
,
and
shall
come
in
maiesty
to
iudge
vs
at
the
last
day
.
A
point
worthy
to
be
considered
;
and
which
(
among
other
things
)
the
Angell
also
meant
,
saying
;
Feare
not
.
Now
,
as
it
pleased
God
,
that
an
Angell
should
publish
the
Resurrection
,
so
also
by
an
Angell
was
the
Ascension
published
:
for
as
heere
the
women
are
first
rebuked
,
and
afterwards
instructed
;
so
the
Angell
seeing
them
gazing
and
looking
after
Christ
,
rebuked
them
in
this
manner
:
Whygaze
yee
you
men
of
Galile
?
And
then
afterward
comforted
them
and
in
structed
them
,
concerning
the
Resurrection
,
adding
withall
:
This
Iesus
shall
come
againe
euen
so
as
you
haue
seene
him
ascend
,
that
is
,
he
shall
returne
in
the
same
nature
in
which
he
ascended
;
which
our
Sauiour
himselfe
saith
,
is
to
be
,
in
the
glory
of
his
Angells
:
But
some
may
say
,
a
fire
shal
go
before
him
,
the
powers
of
heauen
shall
be
shaken
,
and
all
the
Tribes
of
the
earth
shall
lament
before
him
;
how
then
doth
he
come
againe
as
he
ascended
?
I
answer
;
That
though
there
be
some
difference
in
the
circumstances
,
yet
shall
he
returne
in
the
verity
of
his
body
,
in
the
very
same
body
,
shape
and
members
glorified
,
in
the
which
hee
was
crucified
:
And
it
is
a
point
most
comfortable
,
that
the
Father
of
all
mercies
will
vouchsafe
by
Man
to
iudge
men
,
that
the
similitude
of
Nature
in
so
great
feare
and
perturbation
,
might
giue
vs
assured
confidence
.
If
then
,
his
death
,
resurrection
,
ascension
,
glorification
,
and
comming
to
iudgement
,
be
all
for
our
comfort
,
so
that
we
seeke
him
heere
,
it
is
plaine
,
that
this
speech
of
the
Angells
,
hath
both
Consolation
and
Reprehension
.
These
women
had
a
sharpe
reprehension
by
the
Angell
,
for
seeking
him
that
was
liuing
amongst
the
dead
:
but
because
otherwise
their
zeale
was
good
,
God
doth
pardon
their
infirmity
,
and
comforteth
them
in
their
misery
.
As
the
speech
was
vnto
them
,
so
is
it
vnto
vs
.
I
hope
there
is
none
of
vs
so
perfect
,
but
may
very
wel
indure
the
Angell
taxing
our
earthlinesse
,
and
stirring
vs
vp
to
the
seeking
of
Christ
,
now
sitting
at
the
right
hand
of
God
:
and
if
wee
profite
by
the
reprehension
,
then
appertaineth
the
consolation
vnto
vs
,
if
we
seeke
him
deuoutly
heere
.
For
the
Prophet
saith
truely
,
Lord
,
thou
art
good
vnto
that
soule
that
seeketh
thee
:
neither
is
it
said
,
to
that
soule
that
findeth
thee
:
for
hee
that
according
to
his
humanity
raigneth
in
Heauen
,
by
his
grace
reigneth
in
the
heart
;
Et
prope
estinuocantibus
ipsum
:
Hee
is
neare
to
them
that
call
vpon
him
.
We
neede
not
(
as
the
Apostle
saith
)
to
climbe
vp
into
heauen
,
nor
descend
into
the
depth
,
heere
hee
is
at
hand
within
vs
,
if
there
we
will
nourish
him
,
and
giue
him
entertainement
.
The
finding
of
him
then
,
is
not
hard
,
so
wee
seeke
him
earely
,
whilst
he
may
be
found
;
and
all
dependeth
on
this
point
.
And
,
that
men
doe
not
seeke
him
by
lifting
vp
their
hearts
vnto
him
,
I
will
shew
you
,
both
the
reason
,
and
the
remedy
,
and
so
end
.
A
man
(
saith
Lactantius
)
is
made
,
ex
repugnantibus
,
of
contrary
principles
,
of
a
soule
and
a
body
;
in
respect
of
his
soule
,
hee
is
of
affinity
with
the
Angells
;
in
respect
of
the
body
,
he
is
of
affinity
with
the
beasts
:
the
soule
originally
lookes
vpwards
,
in
respect
of
his
body
,
hee
is
apt
and
prone
to
sensualitie
;
of
these
contrarieties
,
there
do
arise
in
man
,
distractions
of
minde
,
the
soule
carrying
him
one
way
,
the
frailety
of
the
flesh
another
;
and
this
warre
betweene
the
spirit
and
the
body
,
some
doe
thinke
had
beene
euen
in
the
state
of
innocency
,
but
that
God
gaue
vnto
Adam
,
Donum
supernaturale
,
a
supernaturall
gift
;
which
was
,
instar
aureifreni
,
like
a
golden
Bridle
,
by
which
he
might
pacifie
the
strife
of
these
contrary
parts
,
&
make
the
body
subiect
to
the
spirit
,
and
the
spirit
subiect
to
God
.
But
after
Adam
offended
,
he
lost
,
not
onely
that
supernaturall
gift
(
if
any
such
he
had
)
but
euen
Nature
it selfe
was
now
corrupted
.
He
that
before
was
prone
to
Sensuality
,
in
respect
of
his
body
,
was
made
sensuall
and
carnall
in
his
very
soule
:
For
,
as
flesh
obeying
the
spirit
,
may
be
called
spirituall
;
so
the
spirit
whilest
it
obeyes
the
flesh
,
is
carnall
:
and
in
this
estate
of
corrupt
nature
,
man
cannot
but
looke
downe
,
his
soule
and
body
in
respect
,
being
but
earth
,
fleshly
and
sensuall
.
But
it
seemed
good
to
God
,
to
dissolue
the
workes
of
the
Diuell
,
and
to
send
his
owne
Sonne
,
who
both
dyed
for
sinne
,
and
applieth
the
power
and
efficacy
of
his
bloud
,
by
the
Sacraments
,
to
the
regenerating
and
renewing
of
the
soule
;
which
is
purified
from
corruption
and
indewed
with
strength
and
grace
to
rise
and
mount
vp
vnto
Heauen
.
Yet
,
forasmuch
,
as
this
renouation
is
not
pure
,
but
in
part
,
there
remayneth
still
,
and
euen
in
the
best
of
vs
,
this
combate
and
contradiction
,
betweene
the
flesh
and
the
spirit
,
the
spirit
coueting
vpwards
,
and
the
body
hanging
downwards
:
and
as
this
corpus
corruptibile
,
this
corruptible
body
doth
weigh
downe
the
soule
,
so
the
soule
doth
make
the
body
mount
vp
to
heauen
:
And
heereof
proceedes
our
earthlinesse
;
wee
are
made
of
earth
,
and
so
apt
to
fixe
our
mindes
on
the
earth
,
vnlesse
the
spirit
vanquish
this
earthlinesse
in
vs
,
whereon
dependeth
the
victorie
.
For
,
as
while
Aaron
and
Hur
held
vp
Moses
hands
strongly
,
the
Israelites
preuailed
against
the
Amalekites
;
but
when
they
fainted
and
waxed
weary
,
the
Amalekites
preuailed
against
the
Israelites
:
so
while
our
hearts
are
set
on
heauen
,
the
Diuell
is
vanquished
by
vs
,
but
when
this
heauy
lump
of
Clay
,
this
body
of
ours
,
with
our
sensuality
doth
weigh
downe
the
soule
,
then
the
Diuell
preuailes
against
vs
.
Therefore
our
care
must
bee
to
keepe
downe
and
represse
,
this
sensualitie
of
ours
,
to
mortifie
the
affections
and
desires
,
and
to
make
them
obedient
to
the
spirit
,
that
our
earthly
affections
beeing
subdued
,
our
spirits
with
the
wings
of
the
morning
may
climbe
vp
to
God
,
and
in
zeale
of
heart
,
say
with
Dauid
,
to
which
,
there
is
nothing
more
auaileable
then
frequent
meditation
of
the
life
to
come
,
of
Christs
ascending
,
of
his
sitting
at
the
right
hand
of
God
,
receiuing
of
the
Sacrament
,
with
such
other
holy
exercises
of
deuotion
:
which
if
you
doe
,
assure
your selues
,
you
shall
finde
him
,
enioy
him
,
and
pray
to
him
with
much
comfort
in
the
Spirit
;
ye
shall
conuerse
with
him
familiarly
,
and
take
more
pleasure
in
him
,
then
in
all
earthly
pleasures
beside
;
which
are
but
vaine
and
momentany
,
blazing
like
a
fire
of
Thornes
,
but
suddenly
extinguished
:
whereas
the
things
that
are
not
corporall
,
God
bestowes
on
his
,
whilest
,
by
setting
their
mindes
on
him
,
they
seeke
Christ
aboue
,
whereby
he
brings
them
to
raigne
in
glory
with
himselfe
for
euer
:
to
whom
with
the
Father
,
and
the
holy
Spirit
,
be
all
praise
and
glory
,
now
,
and
for
euermore
,
Amen
.
*
⁎
*
FINIS
.