[ 512] The worlds hard censure of the Godly Man.
IF some silly Astrologaster,* 1.1 or Figure-flinger, do but hit in one thing of twenty, he is presently cryed up for a Cunning man; but let the Physitian work six hun∣dred cures, yet if through the impatience of his Patient, he fail but in one, that one fail doth more turn to his discredit▪ then his many eminent cures did formerly get him praise. Thus doth the world deal with men in the matter of censure; If a worldly minded man have but an outward gift of strength, of speech, or of any o∣ther naturall endowment, he is accounted filius gallinae albae, one of the white boyes of the time,* 1.2 a precious man, a man of excellent parts, &c. though he be at the same time in ordine ad spiritualia, an Idolater, a prophane person &c. But let the child of God be truly zealous for God, honest and holy in life and conversation; yet if there be but one infirmity in him (as who is free) or if he have through weaknesse fallen into some one sin; that one infirmity against which he striveth, or that one sin for which