and flesh-eating wilde beastes, that the lewdnes of these men may appeare to haue been the more barbarous and sauage. So dooth Dauid describe the tyrannie and crueltie of wicked oppressors Psal. 10. ver. 9. when he saith, Hee lyeth in waite secretlie, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore, when he draw∣eth him into his net. So againe hee complaineth of the vngodly Psalm. 57. ver. 4. saying, My soule is among Lyons: I lye among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are as speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharp sworde. So Plato in Politico, com∣pareth euill magistrates vnto wilde beastes. Yet in the meane sea∣son there is a comfort set downe, that the church may vnderstand that the same shall come to passe, the which God promised in the former chapter verse 23. namely, that many of her enemies should turne vnto her. So then it is taught, that it shall come to passe, that of the very Philistims themselues most worthie of pu∣nishment and destruction, some remnants notwithstanding shall remaine, the which shal come vnto God, but yet of the onely fa∣uour and endles mercie of God. And the comfort is so much the greater vnto them both, namely the Iewes, that is, the Church of God, and the Philistims, for that their most true, and wonderfull, and most manifest conuersion is described by the effectes. For the remnants of them shall not onely bee consecrated vnto God: but also among the Iewes themselues and the godly, the Philistines shall be leaders of the way, and guides vnto others vnto godlines, in so much that the Ekronites, who of al the rest of the Philistims in times past had lest traffick, or familiaritie, and acquaintance with the Iewes, shall come to dwell afterwards in the middest of Israel, and of the church (as the Iebusites in the middest of Ieru∣salem 2. Sam. 24.) so that they shall bee the beginning to worship God godly and holilie in the Church of God it selfe.