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IT is reported of a certain Duke of the Saracens,* 1.1 and he none of the wisest, that being almost perswaded to be a Christian, would needs be baptized; but being brought to the water side, and having one foot in, before he would
wet the other, he demanded of the Baptizer, Where his Father, Mother, Kindred, and Friends were that dyed without Baptisme? It was answered,* 1.2 That they were all in Hell, with a Multitude of Unbelievers besides; But whither shall I go, sayes he, when I am baptized; To Heaven, sayes the Priest, if you live a good life; Nay then, sayes he, pulling his foot out of the water, Take your Baptism to your self, let me go to that place, where the many, not where the few, where my Friends and acquaintance,* 1.3 and a great number of others of all sorts are, I love see my Friends about me: And this is just the fashion of this present wicked World, Men are much taken with the Many, they choose rather to follow the Multitude to do evill, then to close with the remnant, that shall be saved, to do any good: A sad choyce,* 1.4 God wot! to be so far taken with the common rabble that know not God, and run headlong to Hell, rather then to joyn with the little flock of Christ that shall be assuredly saved.
Joh. Bromi∣ardi summa Praedicant.
Conr. Zuin∣geri theat. hum. vitae. lib. 7.
Turba tremens s••quitur fortu∣nam. Juven.
—pauci quos aequus amavit Iupiter. Ovid.