I haue shewed before what your metaphors of watchmen and the pheards cā proue:* 1.1 what dissimilitudes there is betwixt them and spirituall watchmen and Pastors. I thinke your meaning is not, that the Pastor should preach both night and day, or that* 1.2 there is no continual watching, but continuall preaching. If I were disposed to dal∣lie with you in your metaphores, I could say vnto you that watchmen must of neces∣sitie oftentimes haue their deputies, or else that there must be many of them, and so watch by turnes. I could also say, that assoone as the watchman hathe told the citie of the enimies approching, and hath discrieb them vnto it, he may depart from his sta∣tion and take his rest.
Likewise that the watchman hath least to do, when his enimies are nighest, especi∣ally when they haue inuaded the citie: for then are the souldiers to driue them away by force. Wherefore by these metaphors this onely can you proue, that the Pastors ought to admonish their flocks of their enimies, discrie them in time, and will them to be vigilant. The enimies are knowen, the armoure is certaine, the citizens reaso∣nable,