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

Now according to the rule of discreet and well disposed charity, let me begin […] home, which is the heart of my Text. In the reproving of this sin among others, God hath used to begin at his own Sanctuary. Let not us, that bid men ••oke upward, cast our own eyes downward. They will think that we abuse them, •hen we call them from the world, as Elisha did the Syrian Army;^h This is not the ••ay, nor is this the City: like Foxes dissuading other beasts from that booty, which •re mean to make our own. God and Mammon are two contrary Cures, we cannot •erve them both. Some have dispensations for cures distant many miles: but no Court of faculties can dispense with this: for they are so remote one from the other, •hat heaven and hell scarce exceed them. Thou man of God flee this. We findⁱ Men •f the world, and^k Nations of this world; they seek after these things: but this (Man •f God) opposeth those: Paul says not as at other times, O Timotheus; but O man •f God: it becomes not the men of God, to be men of the world.

Now according to the rule of discreet and well disposed charitie, let me begin 〈…〉 home, which is the heart of my Text. In the reproving of this sinne among o•hers, God hath used to begin at his owne Sanctuarie. Let not us, that bid men ••oke upward, cast our owne eyes downeward. They will think that we abuse them, •hen we call them from the world, as Elisha did the Syrian Armie;^h