Acts. 12. 4.
The text.
Whom when he had apprehended, he cast into prison, deli∣uering him ∴ to fower quaternions of soldiers to be kept.
The note.
As Peters person was more notorious than others, and therfore bet∣ter garded than other for feare he should escape: so Gods prouidence in preseruing and deliuering him for the longer gouernment of his church, is very maruellous.
The answer.
We will not reason the matter how notorious the person of Peter was. It is manifest that as yet he had not béene at Rome, neither was possessed of a triple crowne. But this comfort we reape out of this place, that (bicause the arme of God is not shor∣tened, nor his power lessened: he watcheth ouer his still, he slée∣peth not by day, nor slumbereth by night) therefore he will deli∣uer his as maruellously still from the crueltie of the pope and his adherents.