XXIX.

A reprobate may haue the word of God much in his mouth, and also may be a preacher of the word:c for so prophecying in Christs name, shal be vsed as an excuse of reprobates: and we know that among the twelue Apostles, dIudas was a reprobate. And this may be wel perceiued in the resemblance of tasting which the author to the Hebrewes vseth. We know, that cookes commonly which are occupied in preparing of bankets, haue as much feeling and seeing of the meat, as any other: and yet there is none that eateth lesse of it then they: for their stomackes are cloyed with the smell and taste of it: so, in like maner it may come to passe, that the minister which dresseth & prouideth the spiritual foode, may eate the least of it himselfe; and so, labouring to saue others, he may be a reprobate. And it is thought, that some of them which built the Arke, were not saued in the Arke, but perished in the floud.