L. VIVES.
IN something (a) yeelds] The lust of the flesh is so inwardly inherent in our bodies, and that affect is so inborne in vs by nature (that great workeman of all thinges liuing) who hath so subtilly infused it into our breasts, that euen when our minde is quiet vppon ano∣ther obiect we do propagate our ofspring in the like affection: so that we can by no meanes haue a thought of the performing of this desire, without beeing stung within with a cer∣taine secret delight: which many do make a sinne, but too too veniall. (b) by his Prophets] and that very often, as is plaine in Esay, and Ieremy. (c) But this is the fault] Cicero in his offices saith: There be some that although that which they thinke bee very good, yet for feare of enuy dare not speak it. (d) The hope] As the guide of their pilgrimage: (e) the day of man] 1. Cor. 4. I passe little to bee iudged of you or of the day of man: that is, the iudgement of man, wherein each man is condemned or approued of men: whose contrary is the daie of the Lord, which searcheth and censureth the secrets of all heartes: (f) borne with and loued] The wicked are not onely to bee indured, but euen to bee loued also, God commaunding vs to loue euen our enemies. Mat. 5. (g) The Prophet] Ezechiel, Chap. 33. But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet, and the people bee not warned: and the sword come & take away any person from among them, he is taken away for his iniquitie, but his bloud will I require at the watch-mans hands. (h) For vnto this end were watch-men] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greeke is Speculator in latin, a watchman, a discryer, an obseruer, and a Gouernor, Cicero in his seauenth booke of his Epistles to Atticus saith thus: Pompey would haue me to be the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Sentinell of Campania and all the sea-coastes, and one to whome the whole summe of the busines should haue speciall relation. Andromache in Homer cals Hector Troiae 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the watchman or guardian of Troy. The Athenians called their Intelligencers, and such as they sent out to obserue the practises of their tributary citties Episcopos, Ouerseers, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, watchmen; the Lacedemonians called them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Moderatores, Gouernors. Ar∣chadius the Lawyer cals them Episcopos that had charge of the prouision for vittailes. Some thinke the preposition 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to bee heere a Pleonasme (whereof Eustathius one of Ho∣mers interpreters is one) and that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is all one. 1. Not spare to reprehend] So saith saint Paul vnto Titus: And so doe our Bishops euen in these times, whome with teares we behold haled vnto martyrdome because they tell the truth in too bitter tearmes, and persecute vice through all, not respecting a whit their reuenues nor dignities. Christ Iesus glorifie them (k) Iobs] The history all men know; and Hierome vppon the same saith: These thinges fell vpon Iob, that he might shew outwardly vnto men the loue that he held inwardly vnto God. (l) UUee know] Rom. 8. 28. Aduerse and prosperous fortune ar both assistants in the good mans saluation: and there is nothing befalleth them but he can con∣uert it vnto the augmentation of his vertues.