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1. We must administer the means of your redress, which our God hath taught us: doing it in dilectione, in delectation, with love, with alacrity. Though it be true, that the thing which perisheth shall perish, and they which are ordained to ^aperdition, cannot by us be rescued out of the Wolves jaws. Yet spiritual Physicians must not deny their help, lest dumb alios perdant, ipsi percant, whiles their silence damnifieth others, it also damneth themselves. ^bWhen I say unto the wicked, saith the Lord, Thou shalt surely dye, and thou givest him not warning to save his life; the same wicked man shall dye in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand. The Physician knows, that if the time of his patients life be now determined by God, no art can preserve his taper from going out: yet because he knows not Gods hidden purpose, he with-holds not his endeavour. To censure who shall be saved, who damned, is not (^c judicium luti, sed figuli) the judgement of the clay, but of the Potter: ⟨p. 334⟩^dWho only hath power, of the same lump, to make one vessel to honour, another to dishonour. We know not this, therefore we cease not to beseech your reconciliation. Nay we are ⁵Ambassadors for Christ, as though God doth beseech you by us, and we pray you in Christs stead, be ye reconciled to God. Thus having applied our Physic, we leave the success to God, who alone can make his word the savour of death, or of life, preserving or condemning, destructive to your sins or your selves, as his good pleasure wills it.

1. We must administer the meanes of your redresse, which our God hath taught vs: doing it in dilectione, in delectatione, with loue, with alacritie. Though it be true, that the thing which perisheth shall perish, and they which are ordayned to ^a