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Ministers, to live according to that Doctrine, which they teach others. [ 748]

THere was a ridiculous Actour in the city of Smyrna, which pronouncing O•• Coelum,* 1.1 O Heaven! pointed with his finger towards the ground; which when Polemo, the chiefest man in the place, saw, he could abide to stay no longer, but went from the company in a great chafe,* 1.2 saying, This fool ••ath made a solectsm with his hand, he hath spoken fals Latin with his finger. And such are they, who teach well, and do ill; that, however they have Heaven at their tongues end, yet the Earth is at their fingers end; such as do not onely speak fals Latine with their tongue, but false Divinity with their hands; such as live not according to their preaching. But He that sits in the Heavens will laugh them to scorn, and hisse them off the stage, if they do not mend their action.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Casp. Barthi•• adversar.
• * 1.2

  T. Playfers Serm,