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[ 1184] All men to be highly affected with the Name of Jesus.

IT is said of Iohannes Mollius,* 1.1 whensoever he spake of the Name of Iesus, his eyes dropt:* 1.2 And another reverend Divine being in a deep muse, after some discourse that passed of Iesus, and tears trickling down abundantly from his cheeks, before he was aware, being urged for the cause thereof, confessed inge∣nuously, it was, because he could not draw his dull heart to prise Christ aright. Mr. Fox never denyed beggar, that asked in the Name of Iesus Christ. And religi∣ous Bucer never disregarded any, (though different in opinion from him) in whom he could discern aliquid Christi, any thing of Iesus Christ. None but Christ, saies John Lambert at the stake: And, My Master, saies Mr. Herbert, that divine Poet,* 1.3 as oft as he heard the Name of Iesus mentioned. How then should our hearts rejoyce, and our tongues be glad? and how should we be vext, at the dead∣nesse and dulnesse of our naughty natures, that are no more affected with the

sweetnesse of the Name Iesus? a Name above all names. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.4 Such a word, saith the Heathen Orator, and so emphaticall, that other tongues can hardly find a word to expresse it.

Notes

• * 1.1

  ••. Trapp Com. on Matth.
• * 1.2

  M. Welse Act. and Mon.
• * 1.3

  Poems in pre∣face.
• * 1.4

  Phil. 2. 9. Cicero in Ver∣rem.