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When two milch kine did carry the Ark of the Lord to Bethshemesh, their calves were shut up at home, because the kine should not stay, when they heard their calves cry ⟨p. 244⟩after them: so when thou goest about the Lords business, thou shalt hear a cry of thy Father, and thy Mother and thy brethren, and thy Sisters, and thy Kindred, to stay thee; but then thou must think of another father, as Christ thought of another Mother: and so as these Kine went on till the Lord brought them where the Ark should rest; so thou shalt go on till the Lord bring thee where thou shalt rest. It is better to fly from our friends, as Abraham did,¹ then to stay with some friends,² as Sampson did with Delilah.

When two milch kine did carrie the Arke of the Lord to Bethshemesh, their calues were shut vp at home, because the kine shuld not stay, when they heard their calues crie ⟨p. 244⟩after them: so when thou goest about the Lordes businesse, thou shalt heare a crie of thy Father, and thy Mother and thy brethren, and thy Sisters, and thy Kinred, to staie thee; but then thou must thinke of another father, as Christ thought of another Mother: and so as these Kine went on till the Lord brought thē where the Arke should rest; so thou shalt go on till the Lord bring thee where thou shalt rest. It is better to flie from our friends, as Abraham did,¹ then to stay with some friends,² as Sampson did with Dalila.

1. 1Gen. 11. 31 and 12. 1.
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