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IT was a barbarous act of that Nation,* 1.1 who imprisoned, condemned, executed, and rip'd up an Asse, to recover the Moon out of him, which they suspected he had swallowed, because they saw him drink at the water, when the Moon ap∣peared
by reflection,* 1.2 and immediately upon that being wrap'd up into a cloud, they mist her: And thus do simple Men, that think the grace of God is extinct quite, when some cloud of sin robs them of the comfortable light of it; How are they frighted, as the Antients were with these Eclipses, and are much distracted in the midst of such spiritual desertions? Yet the knowing experimental Christian is nothing troubled thereat, but expects the return with patience.
Lud. Vives in Augustin. de Civit. Dei.
Dr. Staugh∣tons Sermons.