A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

Men would have fire kept in the Sanctuary, but allow no fuel: they would ⟨p. 453⟩have the lamp burn without oil. To take away the provant from the Army, is […] betray it to the enemy. In darkness they did strain it, now they restrain it. •he world thinks we can live like John Baptist, by miracle; who was in his diet, •abite, carriage, indeed a miracle. Liceat dicere miraculum fuit, ¹quamvis miraculum •cit. Offer to God, saith the Psalmist: in stead of this Offer, this common course is •ferre. He that will be a voluntary minister, must be content to be a necessary beggar. So the mendicant Fryer told the woman of her three sons fortunes: that •he should be a thief, another a homicide, the third a beggar. Which for a second mes he would teach her how to prevent, or, at least so to qualify their fates, that •ey might retain their trades without danger. He that shall be a thief, make him a •awyer: so he may steal by Law. He that shall be a homicide, make him a Physician […] he may be rewarded for killing. He that shall be a beggar, make him a Priest, a •yar, so he may beg by authority. God hath made their profession honourable, •e world hath made their condition contemptible. Yet they bring saving truth in •eir mouths, which the Lawyers cannot say. A Divine can say, this is true Divi•ie; a Physician can say, this is proper physic: what Lawyer can say, this is •ue Law, and I will warrant it? yet we reward the latter, and disgrace the former. •our state be questioned, we go to the Lawyer for counsel; thank and fee him. Be•g sick we send for the physician, credit, thank, and pay him. We send for the riest, but neither reward, nor so much as thank him, for we hold it his duty. How rely hath the minister the tenth of the others fee! yet we falsely say, that we prerre our souls, before our estates, or our bodies.