Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

If they cannot make you wound your conscience,¹ (according to the subtlety of the Serpent) they will wound your credit; but a godly mans name is like an oiled post, on which such dirt will not stick. Their good word might be a disgrace to you, and give you cause to reflect upon your self (as that Heathen did) and say, What evil have I done, that such a graceless fellow commends me? But their bad word• doth no more now, than the treading with dirty feet on figures engraven in brass, which are thereby rendered more bright and glorious. And hereafter you shall see a resurrection of names as well as of bodies, when Christ will make the sinner pay back the stolen reputation •f his servants with interest.

If they cannot make you wound your conscience,¹ (according to the subtilty of the Serpent) they will wound your credit; but a godly mans name is like an oyled post, on which such dirt will not stick. Their good word might be a disgrace to you, and give you cause to reflect upon your self (as that Heathen did) and say, What evil have I done, that such a gracelesse fellow commends me? But their bad word• doth no more now, than the treading with dirty feet on figures engraven in brasse, which are thereby rendred more bright and glorious. And hereafter you shall see a resurrectirn of names as well as of bodies, when Christ will make the sinner pay back the stoln rep•tation •f his seevants with interest.

1. 1Didicit ille maledicere, & ego contemnere said the Philosopher.

David was the song of the drunkards, and the scorn of the gluttons; and the Son of David, that pattern of patterns,