The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And…The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And…

Some begin hotly, and keep the Pulpits warm at first, barking loud against dumb dogs; thundering out, Let him that labours not, not eat: forbidding promotion without devotion. On a sudden, these sons of thunder are as mute as fishes. What's the matter? Now from their own lips, they should have no promotion. Oh Sir; they have the promotion already. You may perceive, the fish is caught by their hanging aside their nets. Perhaps in a Cathedral Church, to a refined audience, some Episcopal command may deliver him of Elephanti partum, a child of two years breeding one whereof is spent in the conception, another in fashioning the members; and yet a mere Embryon when it is borne. Oh favour them. Rarae fumant faelicibus arae. Their beginning was golden, like that Monarchs dreamed Image; but their conclusion is dirty, they end in clay; leaving the word, & cleaving to the world. It were good for the church, & not amiss for themselves ⟨p. 10⟩if their gains might be decreased with their pains. But if a restraint of Pluralities, or a diminution and abatement of their demeans, should be imposed, how would they complain! Let them complain; and be answered as certain Monks in Winchester were: who complaining to King Henry the 2. that their Bishop had taken away three of their Dishes, and left them but ten: the King replied, That the Bishop should do well to take away the ten, and leave them but three. As they have crimen immane, and nomen inane, so let them have mercedem tenuem, a slender recompense. Inertes should be justly inopes: especially cum valuerunt, et non voluerunt praedicare. Is this all? No: but as the tree falls, so it lies. If Christ find them at last loiterers, he will set them to work for ever in torments.

Some begin hotely, and keepe the Pulpits warme at first, barking loud against dumb dogs; thundring out, Let him that labors not, not eat: forbidding promotion without deuotion. On a suddaine, these sons of thunder are as mute as fishes. What's the matter? Now from their owne lippes, they should haue no promotion. Oh Sir; they haue the promotion already. You may perceiue, the fish is caught by their hanging aside their nets. Perhaps in a Cathedrall Church, to a refin'd audience, some Episcopall command may deliuer him of Elephanti partum, a childe of two yeares breeding• one whereof is spent in the conception, another in fashioning the members; and yet a meere Embrion when it is borne. Oh fauour them. Rarae fumant faelicibus arae. Their beginning was goldē, like that Monarchs drea med Image; but their conclusion is dirty, they ende in clay; leauing the word, & cleauing to the world. It were good for the church, & not amisse for thēselues