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For we know that after that the devil perceiveth / that men are pulled out of the power of darkness / into the glorious light of the gospel / he sweateth and laboureth by a thousand means to destroy them / & bestirreth him self more then / then in the time of their ignorance / and in stead of that one chain of ignorance / and want of the knowledge of god / he layeth a thousand traps for them / to snare them with. So that the continual danger that the church is in / doth as it were speak unto the pastor in the common proverb. Sparten hen claches kosma: that is / look diligently to that charge which thou haste received. For / if the watchman should forsake the City / whereunto he is appointed / and go and watch in an other / where he is not called / although he save that / if he lose the other / he shall not therefore escape the punishment of betraying the other city / where he was placed watchman.

For we know that after that the deuill perceiueth / that men are pulled out of the power of darknes / into the glorious light of the gospel / he sweateth and laboureth by a thousand meanes to destroy them / & bestirreth him selfe more then / then in the time of their ignorance / and in steade of that one chaine of ignorance / and want of the knowledge of god / he layeth a thousand traps for them / to snare them with. So that the continuall danger that the church is in / dothe as it were speake vnto the pastor in the common prouerbe. Sparten hen claches kosma: that is / looke diligently to that charge whych thou haste receiued. For / if the watchman shoulde forsake the Citie / wherevnto he is appoynted / and goe and watche in an other / where he is not called / althoughe he saue that / if he lose the other / he shall not therefore escape the punishment of betraying the other citie / where he was placed watchman.

Touching the behalf of God & his glory / if any man will say that they can not perish / which once have believed / and therefore those may be left / and others attempted / I can say of those that are in ignorance and blindness / that they cannot perish that be elected / although they never have the gospel preached. And therefore we must walk in those ways that God hath appointed / to bring them to salvation / which is to feed them continually / and watch over them so long as they are in danger of hunger / in danger of wolves / in danger of the enemies / within and without / which is so long as the church is here upon the earth.