The excellency of a gracious spirit Delivered in a treatise upon the 14. of…The excellency of a gracious spirit Deliuered in a treatise upon the 14. of…

there is this expression of his concerning this reported of him; when one Delphidius accused one before him, of a crime, of which he could not bring sufficient proof; the party accused denied the fact; this Delphidius answers, If it be sufficient to deny that which is laid to ones charge, who shall be found guilty? Then Julian answers, And if it be sufficient to be accused, who can be innocent? ¹Many other notable things are reported of him; but these I have related more fully, because in this example we may see how far a man may go in much seeming good; what hopeful beginnings he may have, and yet what a vile cursed Monster he may prove, if he looks not to it. Let none then rest themselves in ⟨p. 345⟩their good beginnings; but as they have made entrance upon this work, in following the Lord, so let them labour to fill it up: & as for those who heretofore have seemed to be forward and hopeful, while they lived in good families, and under the care and watchful eye of able and godly men, and yet have now forsaken the Lord, and his ways; let such (I say) know, that it is an evil, and a bitter thing, to forsake the blessed God; to turn from him to follow after vanities that cannot profit; so great an evil is it, that God himself calls the heavens to be astonished at this, Jer. 2. 12, 13. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord: For my people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters, and hewed them out Cisterns, broken Cisterns, that can hold no water. The evil of this forsaking the Lord, were great, if this were all.

there is this expression of his concerning this reported of him; when one Delphidius accused one before him, of a crime, of which he could not bring sufficient proofe; the party accused denyed the fact; this Delphidius answers, If it be sufficient to deny that which is laid to ones charge, who shall be found guilty? Then Iulian answers, And if it be sufficient to be accused, who can be innocent? ¹Many other notable things are reported of him; but these I have related more fully, because in this example we may see how farre a man may goe in much seeming good; what hopefull beginnings he may have, and yet what a vile cursed Monster he may prove, if he lookes not to it. Let none then rest themselves in