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

Beloved, think of the end of your washing; it was that you should no more foul your selves, Acts 22.16. Be baptized, and wash away your sin, calling on the Name of the LORD. The Eunuch being baptized, became a Saint: Descendit Ethnicus, resurgit Christianus: He went down into the water a Heathen, he came up a Christian. The cruel Gaolor, baptised, became a zealous professor. Baptism is in poenitentiam, Matth. 3. to amendment of life. Therefore say with the Spouse, Cant. 5.3. I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? Forget not that Sacramental vow made to God, in the presence of men and Angels. Did it fly up to heaven, and does it not stay there to testify against thee? Thou vowedst ⟨p. 197⟩thy self a soldier, not a neuter: to fight for the Lord, not to stand still and look on; much less to fight against him: for Cursed is he that takes not the Lords part. ¹Thou must fight: thou doest fight; but against whom? not against the world, thy own lust, the power of Satan; but against thy brethren. Upon every slight occasion we must to Law: like Cocks of the game; that fight neither pro patria, nor pro domo: so we contend not pro cure, jure, thure; not for the title of inheritance, not for the right of the poor, nor for the cause of Religion: but Quia alter alteri cedere non vult; but because one will not yield to another. Turbulent Lawyers are the abettors that set them on; the Cock-pit is Westminster-Hall; and when they have pecked out one another's eyes, they pull their feathers. Is this to fight the LORDS battle? No, it is to be on the Dragons side. Do we war against the world? No, we fight not like Alexander, to subdue it to our selves, but to subdue our selves to it. Run through the shops of this City, and you may know by their weapons; false measures, false balances, false lights, false tongues; what they fight for. O the mercy of GOD! Have we forgot our names? Is there no memory of our Christianity left? We had but some prints and relics of it at first; and may we now say, as of Jerusalem; Etiam periere ruinae? Is there no ruin nor stone left, to tell a mans self; This building was a Christian? It is reported of Orbilius, a Grammarian, that he forgot not only the letters of his book, but even his own name. We forget both the prints and letters of the Gospel, and withal our own names; that we are Christians.