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Yea further (which is of all other things most strange) the poor lambs of Christ are so far from being torn in pieces by those Lions, that they become Lions themselves, not for cruelty, but for courage. ¹For so saith the Prophet Micah: And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the middest •f many people, as the Lions among the beasts of the for rest and as the Lions whelp among the flocks of sheep. The meaning of which place is, that some few poor Christians standing in the cause of God, and coming furnished with the grace and power of the holy Ghost, should be able to daunt and terrify the hearts of many sinful persons, and cause them even to quake and tremble, ²as Paul did Felix, when he reasoned powerfully and effectually concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgement to come. In so much that many who are hypocrites in heart, will make a show of religion and piety, and seem to conform themselves unto Christians whom they hate with a deadly hatred: which plainly argueth that there is a kind of Majesty of God, Note. shining forth in the faces and in the carriage of Gods servants, which the vilest reprobates are many times driven to acknowledge, though full sore against their wills.

Yea further (which is of all other things most strange) the poore lambs of Christ are so far from being torne in pieces by those Lions, that they become Lions themselues, not for cruelty, but for courage. ¹For so saith the Prophet Micah: And the remnant of Iacob shall bee among the Gentiles, in the middest •f many people, as the Lions among the beasts of the for rest and as the Lions whelpe among the flocks of sheepe. The meaning of which place is, that some few poore Christians standing in the cause of God, and comming furnished with the grace and power of the holy Ghost, should be able to daunt and terrifie the hearts of many sinfull persons, and cause them euen to quake and tremble, ²as Paul did Felix, when hee reasoned powerfully and effectually concerning righteousnesse, and temperance, and the iudgement to come. In so much that many who are hypocrites in heart, will make a shew of religion and piety, and seeme to conforme themselues vnto Christians whom they hate with a deadly hatred: which plainly argueth that there is a kind of Maiesty of God, Note. shining forth in the faces and in the carriage of Gods seruants, which the vilest reprobates are many times driuen to acknowledge, though full sore against their wils.