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Nor is this admonition and exhortation needless in our times, wherein the careful going about the building of the spiritual Ark, exposeth men, if not so much and so openly as the making of the material Ark did NOAH, yet too freely and too frequently, to the mocks and scoffs of profane people.

Nor is this admonition and exhortation needlesse in our times, wherein the carefull going about the building of the spirituall Arke, exposeth men, if not so much and so openly as the making of the materiall Arke did NOA, yet too freely and too frequently, to the mockes and scoffes of prophane people.

^dBe not ashamed, saith Augustine, of thy Christian profession. Be not ashamed of it? will some say. It seemeth a needless admonition. ^eThere are so few now that are not Christians, that if a man be not one, he shall rather be noted and pointed at. But for all that, saith he, ^ftry it when thou wilt, and thou shalt find my words true. Do but strive to live according to the rules of Christianity; and see if thou be not derided and scoffed at for it by those, that are Christians in Name, but not in deed. And the like may be said truly of these times of ours, wherein ^tReligion is grown to be, as Bernard sometime complained, not a matter of form, but a matter of scorn: ^uSimon Zealots is become an odious Name; profession of Piety is accounted ⟨p. 118⟩Pharisaism, scrupulosity, and hypocrisy; ^“the fear of God esteemed folly; & […] religious carriage made commonly matter of reproach.