LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBS.LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBES.

LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBS.

LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBES.

Luke 10. 3. Behold, I send you forth as Lambs among Wolves.

Luke 10. 3. Behold, I send you forth as Lambes among Wolues.

THE Great Bishop of our souls being now at the Ordination of his Ministers; having first instructed them in via Domini, doth heere discipline them in vita Discipuli: and pre-arms them to that entertainment, which the Samaritans of the world are likely to give all those, whose faces look toward Jerusalem. Math. 10. ver. 22. You shall be hated of all men for my names sake. If they had but some opposers, there were some comfort; then it is probable that the rest would help: nay, All. Yet if they were but indifferently affected toward ⟨p. 3⟩us, and would neither defend nor offend. but resign us up to our selves: nay, they shall oppose, they will Hate: your persecutors shall be in every City, not few but many, not neuters but maligners. If there were many and not haters, then as it is in the Proverb, The more the merrier: if haters and not many, then the fewer the better cheer: but they are for nature persecutors; for number many men, most men, innumerable, all men. But we are here praemoniti, and therefore should be praemuniti: neither need we grudge to suffer in measure for Him, that hath suffered beyond measure for us. Whatsoever we endure for his names sake, the patience and passion of others hath matched it: but His grief for us could not be fitted with a Sicut in all the world.