Men not to be ashamed of their Godly Pro∣fession, though the Wicked speak evill of them. [ 1889]
SUppose a Geometrician should be drawing of lines and Figures, and there should come in some silly ignorant fellow,* 1.1 who seeing him should laugh at him; Would the Artist think you, leave off his employment because of his derision? Surely no; For he knows that he laughs at him out of his ignorance, as not knowing his Art and the grounds thereof: Thus let no Man be asha∣med of his godly Profession, because Wicked Men speak evill of it; And why do they so,* 1.2 but because they understand it not, it is strange to them; they see the actions of Godly Men,* 1.3 but the rules and principles that they go by, they know not, and hence is it that they throw dirt in the face of Religious profession, but a Wife man will soon wipe it off again.