Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…

They are distinguished in Hope: for because the wicked hope ¹not for any mends of God, therefore they never defer their ²reward: but if they do any good, they are trumpets of it themselves, for fear it should be blazed enough: and therefore Christ said, that the Pharisees had their reward already, because they ³were boasters of their works: and if they do not good but evil, yet they would be magnified as much for evil, as others are for good. But the faithful are likened to Handmaids, which wait their reward: Their left hand seeth not when their right hand doth ⁴well, and they are afraid to take honour of men, for losing their honour with God, like John Baptist, which made his Virtues ⁵meaner than they were, and debased himself, when he might have got a name above his Lord.

They are distinguished in Hope: for because the wicked hope ¹not for any mends of God, therefore they never deferr their ²reward: but if they do any good, they are trumpets of it themselves, for fear it should be blazed enough: and therefore Christ said, that the Pharisees had their reward already, because they ³were boasters of their works: and if they do not good but evil, yet they would be magnified as much for evil, as others are for good. But the faithful are likened to Handmaids, which wait their reward: Their left hand seeth not when their right hand doth ⁴well, and they are afraid to take honour of men, for losing their honour with God, like John Baptist, which made his Virtues ⁵