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

^xAm I a dog that I should do this? No, he was not yet a dog: but afterwards God forsook him, then he became a dog, and did it. Libera me a malo homine; that, is as Augustine glosseth it; a meipso. Deliver me from the evil man; O Lord: and because I am an evil man, and there is no worse, deliver me from my self. Such a delivery should have been to us all, but for another deliverance that came between: a Liberavit, not a Tradidit. Luk. 1.74. He hath delivered us out of the h•••• of all our enemies. Tradidit daemones, Liberavit homines. He delivered his own S•• to death, that he might deliver us from death.

^xAm I a dog that I should doe this? No, he was not yet a dogge: but afterwards God forsooke him, then he became a dogge, and did it. Libera me a malo homine; that, is as Augustine glosseth it; a meipso. Deliver me from the evill man; O Lord: and because I am an evill man, and there is no worse, deliver me from my selfe. Such a deliverie should have beene to us all, but for another deliverance that came betweene: a Liberavit, not a Tradidit. Luk. 1.74. He hath delivered us out of the h•••• of all our enemies. Tradidit daemones, Liberavit homines. He delivered his owne S•• to death, that he might deliver us from death.

1. x2 King. 8.13.

Into chains of darkness.] Into darkness, there's their Misery. Into ch••••s, there's their Slavery. Darkness signifies the wrath of God, and is opposed to th favour of his, which is called Lux vultus sui; the light of his countenance,