CHAP. 10. Hee speakes againe of the Fig∣tree: and derides the Mani∣chees foolish conceits about it.
1. I My selfe being at that time ignorant of these
Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete
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things, derided heartily those holy servants and Prophets of thine. And what gain'd I by scoffing at them, but that my selfe should in the meane time be scorned at by thee, being sen∣sibly and by little and little drawne on to those toyes, as to beleeve that a Fig-tree wept when it were plucked, and the Mother of it to shed milkie teares? Which Fig notwith∣standing (pluckt by some other mans boldnesse) had some Ma∣nichean * 1.1 Saint eaten, hee should digest in his guts, and breath out of that Fig, very Angels; yea, in his prayer, groane and sigh out certaine portions (forsooth) of the Deity; which portions of the most high and true GOD should remaine bound in that Fig, unlesse they had beene set at liberty by the teeth or belly of some elect holy one. And I be∣leeved (wretch that I was) that more mercy was to bee shewne
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to the fruits of the earth, that unto men for, whose use they were created. For if any man (though a hungred) should have eaten a bit, who were no Mani∣chee, that morsell would seeme as it were to be condemned to a capitall punishment, should it have been given him.
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* 1.1
He alludes in this Chapter to the folly of the Ma∣nichees.