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^gTrepidus homo ponit tendiculam sibi: The fearefull man, saith Solomon, setteth a s•are for himself. And it is in this case verified that the Prophets have, and ⁱthe Jews use as a by-word. ^hHe that flieth from the noise of fear, falleth into a pit, and he that getteth up out of the pit, is caught in the snare. We may well apply it with some transposition to the present occasion. When matters are to be heard before you, and some Great-mans letters come, whom the one party hath some interest in, here if you be fearful of doing your duty, your fear setteth a snare for ⟨p. 27⟩you, and if for fear of offending him you decline from the right, while you fly from the noise of a false fear, you fall into a true snare: or while you seek to shun one snare, you fall into another, a worse snare: while you seek to shun the snare of mans offence which you might easily have wound your selves out of again, yea ^kGod would have broken for you and set you free from; ^lyou fall into the pit of Gods heavy indignation, out of which it is questionable whither ever you get up again or no.

^gTrepidus homo ponit tendiculam sibi: The fearefull man, saith Salomon, setteth a s•are for himselfe. And it is in this case verified that the Prophets haue, and ⁱthe Iewes vse as a by-word. ^hHee that flieth from the noise of feare, falleth into a pit, and he that getteth vp out of the pit, is caught in the snare. We may well apply it with some transposition to the present occasion. When matters are to be heard before you, and some Great-mans letters come, whom the one party hath some interest in, here if you be fearefull of doing your duty, your feare setteth a snare for