Samuel's encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30.…Samuels encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30.…

BUT to pass to another thing, who seeth not that this was extreme folly in a wise man, that he could not but hold him in his company, and yet never the better for it?¹ So Jehoraem could could be content to serve his turn with Elisha the Prophet, in his sore distress and danger, that he was in: but otherwise regarded no whit his doctrine, nor message, to be reformed by it: but rather hated him. Even as Ahabal, so his father was willing ⟨p. 336⟩to have good tidings by Michaiah, ²when he went to war at Ramoth Gilead; but he was so far off, from hearing the judgement of God, for his idolatry and disobedience at his mouth, or to be willing to be converted from it, to the true worshipping of God, that he sent him to prison with hunger and pain. Even so it is, I must needs say, the heavy hand of God upon many among us, and a point of gross foolishness, though otherwise they have wit and worldly wisdom with the most: that notwithstanding, they be no Papists, to contemn and despise the Preachers of the Word, yet they are not wise enough to make their profit of them: nay, ⟨p. 337⟩though they love them, as they do other men; yet do they not seek to know the end, why they are set among them, and what use for the attaining of happiness, they should seek to make of them.

BVT to passe to another thing, who seeth not that this was extreme folly in a wise man, that he could not but hold him in his company, and yet neuer the better for it?¹ So Iehoraem could could bee content to serue his turne with Elisha the Prophet, in his sore distresse and danger, that hee was in: but otherwise regarded no whit his doctrine, nor message, to be reformed by it: but rather hated him. Euen as Ahabal, so his father was willing ⟨p. 336⟩to haue good tydings by Michaiah, ²