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_Corinthians_[s], _Now I praise you | [Note s: _1 Cor. 11. 1, 22_]
Brethren_, and by and by he saith: |
_Shall I praise you in this? I |
praise you not_: whereas This |
praise here promised so Is, that it |
_shall be_ still, and that cannot |
be in this Transitory world; but in |
Heauen, where Her praise that |
feareth the Lord for euer, endureth |
for euer: _Laudabitur, She shall be |
praised_. |
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The best Time then for commending | [Note: III.
Her is yet to come, and that from | _Of whom shee shal be praised._]
Him who can best doe it; But I must |
tell you first, this Time should | [Note t: _2 Kings 9. 11. Act. 24.
neuer come, could the scoffing | 5. & 26. 24. Neh. 6. 13._]
_Ishmaels_ of our daies be heard |
railing vpon, iesting at, belying | [Note u: _Tert. Apolog. c. 7. &c.
and slandering Her and Him _that | Arnob. aduers. Gent. M. Faelix in
feareth the Lord_. It was euer | Octau._]
their Deuillish propertie[t] with |
many disgracefull censures to dimme | [Note x: _Gratias ago Deo meo, quod
the glory of the children of Light, | dignus sum, quem mundus oderit._
spitefully to aggrauate their | _S. Ierom. Asellae._]
tender frailties, rather than to |
commend their vnreproueable Graces. | [Note y: _Ephes. 5. 15. Phil. 4.
So of old they scourged the | 8, 9. 2 Cor. 8. 20. 1 Pet. 2.
Primitiue Christians with their | 12. Heb. 11. 39. Eccl. 41.12.
viperous, virulent tongues[u]; but | --Nec ex nobis scintilla
as Saint _Ierome_ thanks God that | procedat, per quam aduersus nos
He was counted worthy to be hated | sinistrae famae flamma confletur--Nos
of the world[x]; so should euery | id agamus, vt male de nobis nemo
good man and woman, not much | loqui, absque Mendacio possit._
trouble themselues for the vniust | _Paulin. epist. ad Celant._]
censures and disconceits of |
witlesse and worthlesse |
prophanenesse; but rather (as |
_Paulinus_[y] exhorts) haue more |
regard to their good name, lest any |
sparkle or appearance of euill |
truly proceed from them, whereby |
any flame of euill report may be |
kindled, and so to liue, that none |
may speake euill of them without |
lying. For maugre the malice of all |
Sensualists, the T