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A10931	Certaine sermons preached and penned by Richard Rogers preacher of Weathersfield in Essex, directly tending to these three ends. First, to bring any bad person (that hath not committed the sinne that is vnpardonable) to true conuersion. Secondly, to stablish and settle all such as are conuerted, in faith and repentance. Thirdly, to leade them forward (that are so setled) in the Christian life, to bring foorth the fruite of both. Whereunto are annexed diuers godlie and learned sermons of another reuerend and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. Samuel Wright, Bachelor of Diuinitie, late president of Sidney Colledge in Camebridge, deceased, tending also to the same ends, with diuers particular points in both, profitable and fit for these times.	Rogers, Richard, 1550?-1618.; Wright, Samuel, d. ca. 1612. aut	1612 (1612)	STC 21203; ESTC S116121	188,868	230

they vsed all diligence and armed themselues now while God gaue them this little breathing from persecution that so by their confidence pure heart good conscience loue and patience and other grace they might be fit to leade a godly life in the world with ease and strengthen themselues against falles and the baits of sin on euery side And it is manifest to all of vs who can iudge that by such meanes and a sound ministerie watching praying and the like the Church of God can grow in grace and no otherwise And that they did thus it is apparent by that which we reade in the second of the Acts where it is said that they were daily in the temple and continued in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and prayer And this vse should all true particular Churches and people of God make of their libertie of peace and of liuing free from persecution From the which God hath a long time freed many of his good seruants in this age howsoeuer some are much and oft vnder the crosse yea and that right heauie and sharpe such therefore should glorifie God by bringing forth fruit not in a common sort yea al possible good should be done of them and not omitted For as for priuate lets and those which are vsuall may more easily be ouercome either inward corruptions or outward ill examples or other discouragements as long as the word of God may haue free passage to be sincerely preached But if outward peace alone be counted so great a benefit and such holy and fruitfull vse made of it Note then how much more should we thinke so when that one is accompanied with abundance of other good things when health wealth friends and fauour of the godly shall go herewith and meet altogether in one person what manner of people ought such to be in all godlinesse And how God looketh for it that it should be so that place of Deuteronomie doth liuely shew Where Moses saith that we must serue the Lord with all ioyfulnesse and a good heart for the abundance of all good things The meditations of such mens harts should be acceptable to God and to follow the metaphor of building vsed heere a little the people that is so blessed of God should do as builders are wont that is to pull downe the ruinous corners set vp new frames in their roomes so should Gods seruants plucke downe the old ruines and breaches of their corrupt hearts as anger wrath impatience bitternesse and such like vncleane lusts and set vp mercie tenderheartednesse loue zeale faith and such like Yea and more particularly according to the diuers ages of Gods children they should exercise themselues that is to say the tender consciences and yong beginners should haue their thoughts and meditations about the fauour of God desiring aboue all things to be assured of it the middle aged Christians and such as are somewhat stayed in faith and the feare of God should chiefely be occupied in striuing against their lusts and fighting with them the ancient and experienced who haue done both these should much be taken vp in calling to mind what they haue heard of Gods manner of dealing in guiding his Church and the fruit thereof and in declaring to other and what they haue seene and found themselues worth the reporting to be in the seruing of God that thereby they may be encouraged to walke fruitfully and circumspectly still as they did long before and not to be led away from their stedfastnes in their Christian course by the error of the wicked as hauing found that course by long proofe to haue been the most gainfull of all other vnto them These vses and the like all sorts and ages of Gods people ought to make of Gods blessings towards them and of freedome from trouble But do the people of this age thus for that were a kind vse of peace and his other benefits and would well become them No for in this land these fiftie yeeres now fully passed what knowledge might haue been so that one might haue been able to teach another and there might haue been that grace of the spirit which might haue seasoned Christians hearts no lesse sensiblie then the dew doth moisten the mountaines So that our Church might haue been a paterne to others as the Thessalonians were examples to all that beleeued in Macedonia and Achaia and it might now haue been verified if euer in any age since the Apostles time that out of the bellies of beleeuers might haue flowed riuers of waters of life whereas except some persons heere and there there is great ignorance vnfaithfulnesse hollownesse securitie vncharitablenesse maliciousnesse and what not of that kind I speake not of the disorders of life for they are more fitly to be reprooued in the next vse which the Churches made of their peace but of the grosse distemperatures of the heart for although these times of prosperitie and peace haue been the fittest seasons for men to encrease in goodnes and grace euen as the haruest is to gather in the corne yet whether we enquire into particular Churches or persons we shall find nothing more true then this that peace and plentie haue poisoned for the most part the enioyers of them But if the people of God whom I teach now to make this vse of his blessings were not wound in by the diuels cunning sleights among the rest of the world it were the lesse maruel but euen they cannot be sholed out from them but haue their teeth set on edge with their courses by liuing among them and beholding how they runne headlong into all excesse by meanes of their prosperitie so that euen they forget their couenant made with God that is that they should endeuour to vse soberly in this present world all their lawfull liberties till with shame and sorrow afterward they are faine to returne againe to repentance And thus many euen of them not holding gouernment ouer their hearts breake out into offensiue life and become eye-sores to their brethren who will not be pent in to keepe the bounds of vnoffensiue walking till experience constraine them to wish they had been wiser and before their straying out so far to haue kept themselues well while they were well And this teacheth vs that Moses saw good cause to giue this warning to Gods people when they were to go to the land flowing in abundance of Gods blessings out of the barren wildernesse saying When the Lord hath brought you into that land with great and goodly cities which ye builded not and houses full of all manner of goods which ye filled not and welles digged which ye digged not and vineyards and oliue trees which ye planted not and when ye haue eaten and are full beware lest you forget the Lord which brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage Now to make vse of this in

with afflictions and those that they haue laid on them be not sore nor grieuous therefore when any come vpon them of any waight indeed they cast them off as impatient in bearing the burthen Neither let any say to me this that the children of God are alwaies vnder the crosse neither are they long without some afflictions seeing their life is compared to a sowing in teares For notwithstanding this many are their outward blessings also especially where the pure preaching of the Gospell is enioyed for many troubles may be easily swallowed vp where that is to helpe to digest them And yet what poore and weake commendation may be giuen of the ioyfull welcoming of the troubles which are sent to such for the most part And this to be true which I say those times do proue wherein they haue some load of affliction laid vpon them for what earnest seeking to God is in them or patience to beare them Indeed if they continue or waxe more grieuous so that they can neither auoid them neither is there any hope of earthly helpe left vnto them to come out of them then perhaps and not till then for the most part when they see no other remedy it may be seene that God is sought vnto seriously and then they stirre vp their faith to lay hold of assistance from God with some confidence when all other helpe faileth For example when by some sore visitation and sicknesse that is like to be vnto death God awaketh any of his the disease permitting and giuing libertie to the partie afflicted for some sicknesse is more violent then other it may be seene sometime that he lieth more like vnto one that preacheth and giueth encouragement and exhortation to repentance ioyfully rather then as one readie to die but how rare is this to see for in many smaller troubles perhaps patience will hardly be found And whereas some of Gods corrections cause sorrow only to the afflicted without paine to the bodie as the losse of friends or goods some cause sorrow that commeth from paine as sicknesse and grieuous diseases it may be that the former may worke some good now or then but for the most part the latter if extremitie hinder not leaue the best fruit behind them Howsoeuer it be there is no doubt but that this grace is too much wanting and the rather it is the lesse sought seeing we leane too much to temporarie holds and stayes and for that our hearts runne after earthly things inordinately as health riches peace c. though we see by long experience that there is no hold of them nor any safe resting in them And this lingring heere like Lots wife must be purged out of vs and chased from vs or else we shall degenerate from the faithfull in former ages and shew too truely that we be not led with their spirit when we being so nestled heere can so hardly go out of our selues to welcome the troubles which God sendeth to weane vs from hence and do not rather pray that we may reioyce vnder them and be thankfull in them The third thing in this first part of the text is that euill persons shall haue small cause in the end to reioyce of their hard proceedings against the seruants of God howsoeuer they pursue them with great delight for God will surely take part with them against their enemies As heere we see in the Iailer whom he terrified while Paul and Silas sung for ioy in so much that he and other his companions when they heard it might see that they had a God that could and would comfort them when hee himselfe their wicked aduersarie thought he had loaden them with anguish and sorrow and that this their God could astonish him with feares and desperatenesse when they whom he oppressed were merrie How God doth this in the world to come it is cleere enough by that Scripture to the Thessalonians where it is said That it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble his and to them that are troubled rest when the Lord Iesus shall shew himselfe from heauen with his mighty Angels in flaming fire Indeed in this world that is not alwaies seene but yet God doth it euen heere also while he professeth that he will blesse them that blesse his and curse them that curse his and while he sheweth fearefull iudgements vpon them who did sore vexe his good seruants and constraineth other to crie out and with their owne mouthes to acknowledge that he plagueth them for their sakes whom they hated and persecuted For examples of the first kind Zidkiiah is one the arch-prophet of Baal who did not only feed Ahab with lies and false messages as from God when he demanded of him what the will of God was in a doubtfull and waightie case but also smote Micaiah the true Prophet of the Lord and withstood him for speaking the truth For this very cause he was constrained afterwards with feare to hide him from chamber to chamber Another example of the first kind is Corah with his companie for resisting and rising against Moses the true seruant of God charging him to be an vsurper of the Priests office and to take too much vpon him and himselfe to bee Gods true Priest for the which as Moses witnesseth he was swallowed vp of the earth with those which were of his conspiracie Examples of the latter sort is Pharaoh who after ten warnings by God in strange punishments for not letting the people of Israel go to serue the Lord out of his land but pursuing them still euen into the sea was in the middest thereof drowned when he was constrained to confesse that the Lord tooke part with Israel against him all the Egyptians saying We will flie from the face of Israel for the Lord sighteth for them against the Egyptians Another example is Iudas who betraying his Master into the hands of the high Priests for money was compelled to confesse before them that set him on worke in a most heauie torment of conscience casting the money againe before them I haue sinned in betraying the innocent blood By all these it appeareth that they shall haue small cause to glorie of their winnings in the end who offer hard measure to Gods people the Lord himselfe crying out thus vnto them Touch not mine annointed nor do my Prophets no harme Neither let any obiect heere that they know them not to be such for so they will affirme in their mad mood and raile on them who yet when they will speake as they are perswaded in good aduisednesse will say of them as Saul did of Dauid that he was more righteous then he and as the King of Babylon said to Daniel thou art the seruant of the most high God So let faithfull Christians rest in their innocencie and in the witnesse of a good conscience and let them count it banquetting

nor rebels nor like to be dangerous persons but he most cruellie cast them into the bottome of the prison euen into a dungeon and yet euen there made their feet fast in the stockes The barbarous and sauage act of this Iailer is set downe to withhold all that heare of it from that sinne and to shame them that practise the same or the like crueltie not onely for that God hath threatened that with what measure men meat it shall be measured to them againe and that iudgement shall be without mercie to them that are mercilesse but also seeing it is vnnaturall to be cruell If any receiue sentence of death for his iust deserts as Achan or iniustly as our Sauiour did yet if thereto should be added other vexations as mocking railing c. that were crueltie therefore Ioshua shewed mercie on Achan to bring him to repentance when he was adiudged to die but the cruell Iewes and souldiers were accused of beastly crueltie and that most iustly when Christ being to be crucified was also handled despitefully and mocked of them Sauls crueltie to his sonne Ionathan who would haue put him to death for tasting a little honie with the top of his speare when he fainted to reuiue himselfe was most sauage and vnnaturall Not vnlike vnto it is that barbarousnes and vnmercifull dealing of step-mothers and step-dames to orphans and poore succorlesse children whom they vse worse then many a bad man will vse his beast when yet nature teacheth them that they can neuer shew kindnes and tender compassion enough to their owne children For which cause the Iewes in vsing correction were stinted by the Lord that they should not giue aboue fortie stripes at once And for the same cause to meete with their crueltie God commanded that an eye should be put out in him that had done the like and a tooth for a tooth to bridle them And how was that seruant dealt with in the Gospell who being forgiuen ten thousand talents by his Lord would not forgiue his fellow seruant an hundred pence but laid hands on him and throtled him saying pay me that thou owest His Lord was wroth with him and deliuered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was due to him And as all crueltie is fearefull and monstrous so that which ariseth from enuie and hatred is diuellish According to that which Salomon saith Anger is cruell and wrath is raging but who can stand before enuy But not to say that which yet might to good purpose be said to make this sinne odious vnto vs let them who haue aduantage of their neighbours by forfetting their bonds into their hands and all superiours who may vse poore strangers fatherlesse ones and poore seruants at their pleasure and finally all whosoeuer they be beware of hard-heartednesse and crueltie which it bringeth forth especially of enuie knowing that they haue a Master and a Superiour in heauen who will recompence such brutish barbarousnesse and as they desire that all other should doe the same to them let them exercise and practise mercie and compassion kindnesse gentlenesse meekenesse and such like vertues The second sinne apparently to be seene in the Iailer was desperatenesse which was such that when he arose out of his sleepe by the fearefull earthquake at midnight and saw the prison doores open he drew out his sword and would haue killed himselfe supposing the prisoners had been fled Such a sinne is this desperatenesse that when men haue losses displeasure of their betters or other great discommodities or when they be but striken with the feare thereof they haue no stay of themselues but without all consideration are carried by it as by a whirlewind to very madnesse Oh if men be crossed hauing no grace to vphold them they are beside themselues and at their wits end Many maruaile when the storie is remembred in companie at the murmuring of the children of Israel when they had no food in the second month of their entring into the wildernesse their store being spent that they brought with them out of Egypt And it must be confessed that it was their sinne that they murmured against God when they were in need But alas we who are readie to censure them do much worse for we grudge when we haue no want but abundance if any thing go against vs. Indeed while all things go with vs to our hearts desire and we liue in prosperitie we can praise God as though we were not inferiour to the forwardest in religion but if God lay his hand vpon vs we will as Satan saith in Iob euen curse him to his face Examples want not euen of such as are of the visible Church The woman spoken of in the Iudges Micahs mother when she had lost her money what was her refuge to the easing of her heart but cursing When Achitophels counsell was refused of Absalom which had bin in great account was he able to put vp that disgrace No but he was so throughly vexed for it that he recouered not himselfe but went and hanged himselfe Saul had banished the witches out of his land according to the commandement of the Lord yet when he was in a strait for all the commandement he enquired for one and asked counsell of her But oh that we in this age had learned wisdome and constancie in the seruice of God to be faithfull to him in our troubles as we professe it to be our dutie in peace But I feare we are not behind the worst of these in the committing of this sin but before them rather For they murmured in great distresses but we in very small trials as though we could beare nothing neither suffer our selues to be crossed in the smallest things but we flie to our shelter which is by anger rage cursing impatience or threatnings if not by worse shifts to auenge our selues when we should rather be ashamed to be so disguised Especially considering who we are and from whence we come euen from worse then the dunghill and should maruell that we be not consumed rather then thinke much to be touched yea with the little finger when we suffer iustly whatsoeuer we suffer yea the most grieuous calamities according to the saying of the Prophet in the Lamentations Wherfore doth the liuing man complaine man suffereth for his sinne And this were more fit to be done of vs a wise man would thinke rather then that we should be led with such frenzie which I say not is monstrous in them that go for godly but an vtter shame for those that are meere naturall men being trained vp vnder true religion and liuing in the light of the Gospell And they that cannot submit themselues to this instruction which in their owne consciences they cannot but confesse they ought to doe let them see their bondage and acknowledge their sin that so they may make way to the obtaining of

Sauiour If any man come vnto me and hate not father and mother wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his owne life he cannot be my disciple The meaning of our Sauiour is not simply that a man should hate his father his mother and so forth or make away himselfe which were wickednes and impiety But as the Euangelist Matthew interprets it he that loueth father or mother aboue mee is not worthy of mee and he that loueth sonne or daughter aboue mee is not worthy of mee The meaning therefore we see clearely to be this he that getteth the pearle of the Gospell he prizeth it farre aboue all the things he hath besides in the world and will rather forgo them all then part with it Hence we see that the pearle of the Gospell is not so easily come by as men suppose commonly For it is no easy matter as experience may teach when triall is made for a man to abandon his pleasures to leese his goods to forsake his dearest and nearest friends and to lay downe his owne life for the loue of it But the Gospell it can be bought with no lesse price if we will haue it as our owne iewel we must sell goods sell our name sel friends sell liberty and life and all we haue and giue them for it and account that we haue made a very good bargaine of it as indeede we haue For what comparison is to be made betweene the earthly riches that here men enioy and those vnspeakeable and vnestimable treasures that Christ Iesus bringeth vnto vs thereby what comparison betweene that name we can leese here for the Gospell and the eternall weight and crowne of glory that shal be set vpon our heads in heauen what is the loue and friendship of all men to the loue and fauour of God which we gaine by the Gospell and what is the life we can leese to the life which we obtaine in Christ And yet if we trie and examine our selues we shall find that we come farre short of forsaking all when we are priuie in our selues that a little pleasure doth many times stay vs from the hearing of the Gospell and how much more then from obeying it And that a little expence and charge shall hinder vs or ill companie shall hold and keepe vs away from the benefit which we might enioy by it Nay our hearts can tell vs that many times when we are present with our bodies where it is preached yet we scarce will vouchsafe to lend our eares to harken to that which is taught vnto vs but our mind is set vpon other matters either on profit or pleasure or else some vaine idle and wandring conceits or else we euen shamefully giue our selues to sleepe So base and vile account and reckoning do we make of the precious and vnualuable pearle of the Gospell For accordingly as men price it so vndoubtedly will their zeale be to the hearing and practising of it And therefore marke how Dauid bewailes his absence from the house of God he was banished the court and countrie yet that did not so much moue him as this that he was barred and banished from the place where he vsed with ioy to feed vpon the comforts of the word of God taught and preached in the assemblies of Gods people and this made him say with griefe that the sparrowes and the swallow might haue nearer accesse then he to the place where God was serued and his word preached This he did because he saw Gods word to be of more true value then all his thousands of gold and siluer of more sound delight to his soule then all his other delights and pleasures in the world It was as hony to his taste and as the streames of a fountaine to the thirstie and drie heart This should we all do and this would we do if we were wise and did rightly price the Gospell And although I haue not particularly set downe those things which accompany the buying of this pearle because the text giueth no necessarie occasion of speaking of them yet in the way of preoccupation and answering a doubt which the ignoranter sort would put forth I will say somewhat though very briefly of it They aske if as soone as a mā find the pearle he by and by that buyeth it come into the possession of it and nothing else be required thereto I answere briefly when a man hath found it if God giue him grace to go further he doth thus and goeth to worke after this manner He earnestly wisheth and desireth that he had a part in it then he seeth that his sinne is in the way to hinder him that he falleth to dislike and crying out of it then it troubleth him to thinke that he is out of fauour with God and growes vtterly to dislike himselfe for both and seeing himselfe no better then a lost man hee heareth that God will pitie and shew mercie to such and that hee is then the person whom God seeketh to saue and will heale him of his sorrow and will loue him freely for euer And that it is the Gospel which bringeth tidings of this and sundrie other good things which when he apprehendeth and sees that he may haue them all for his owne proper good and that freely and for nothing God so worketh in him by all these that he applieth the promises to himselfe and seeth that without money or recompence God is well pleased that he should take them for his owne and be fully perswaded thereof so as now he resteth therein which is the purchasing and buying of it that is heere spoken of And when this is thus brought to passe let all that know what this meaneth guesse how he will loue the Lord for this bountie shewed vpon him and how readie he will be to be guided by him and also what comfort it is to him But for conclusion of the whole now that ye haue heard that the hearer who shall be able to reioyce in his worke at the end thereof is fitly resembled to the merchant man as we haue heard first in that he seeketh pearles secondly in finding one of great price and thirdly in selling all that he hath to buy it that is to make it his owne that he may be happie thereby and all this is done when he beginneth to beleeue let him be sure he doth so and let him get many grounds and euidences thereof by the Scripture and experience And aboue all other this vnualuable treasure of the forgiuenesse of his sins and assurance of saluation he beleeuing the Lord that he may be bold to lay hold on it as Gods will is hee should And let him well weigh how much he is bound to him for it and so doing let him liue on his purchase and take the benefit thereof to the comfort of him and his no otherwise then they do that haue bought house and land And euery day weigh the fruit

of such a purchase in true and vnfained peace and comfort and seeing he shall liue vnder so kind and good a Lord as he that is Lord of all lords let it moue him to set his heart on him and delight and endeuour to please and obey him in all things and let him do it also with ioy For why if we thinke they that be in a noble mans house faring well may be merrie is there any such merry-making as in Gods house so that the man may be merry at his work and the woman at hers They that powre water on the hands of a Prince or a King are thought happie but then to haue the honor that is greater then Kings is somewhat And by this little that hath been said of and about the pearle guesse what the rest is euen as yee would guesse of the whole proportion of a man by seeing his foot TWO SERMONS VPON ISAIAH 55.1.2 Vers 1 Ho euery one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and ye that haue no siluer come buy and eate come I say buy wine and milke without siluer and without money Wherefore do ye lay out siluer and not for bread and your labour without being satisfied hearken diligently vnto me and eate that which is good and let your soule delight in fatnesse SEeing it helpeth much in preaching to shew the teachable hearer what is aymed at principally to be taught him that hee may the better bee kept from wandring and bend his eares and mind to the matter when he seeth what is intended to bee deliuered I will therefore shew you what the things are which I purpose chiefely to handle and speake of out of this text And these they are namely that such poore soules as the most yea and themselues do thinke to be odious to God and contemptible in his sight are for all that in high account with him and deare vnto him And these are all such as hunger and thirst after the kingdome of heauen and all grace to guide them safely thither And contrarily that such as blesse themselues and crie peace peace and all things are safe with them and they whom the greatest part of men do thinke to be happie and beloued of God are accursed and abhorred of him And such are the whole and full who feele little or nothing amisse that doth greatly trouble them or wound their consciences it can in no wise go well with these These things I purpose chiefely to teach and with all such as shall be appertaining hereunto as the text shall giue occasion But yet you must vnderstand that they are the matters which the Prophet also propoundeth to teach out of these words which I haue read For otherwise my teaching of this without ground and warrant from him should be to small purpose And that I may shew this to be his full meaning I will first open and vnfold the words which are there set downe which being borrowed speeches and not signifying that which the letter and words do import do make the matter seeme more difficult and harder to be vnderstood vnlesse they should be opened and made plaine We are therfore to know that by thirsting when he saith if any thirst hee meaneth feruent and earnest desiring By bread milke wine and water he meaneth the varietie and diuers kinds of all good things fit to quench the thirst of the soule and needfull to preserue the spirituall life By comming and buying without money he meaneth a receiuing freely and for nothing by faith such a liberall offer Thus the sense of the words in which any difficultie lieth being cleare it may easily be gathered what the meaning of the whole verse is and that is this That whosoeuer feeleth such need of the food of eternall life and of the graces of faith hope pardon of sinne loue patience or the like if he feele such need of them I say that he cannot be satisfied without them he may how vnworthie soeuer he thinke himselfe thereof freely confidently and with Gods good liking enioy and take his part in them euen as he that buyeth house or land with his money may possesse the same safely as his owne And this be said of the meaning of the first verse In the second he reproueth those among the people who refusing the best things offered them by God and that freely and willingly yet spared neither cost nor labour for those which were nothing profitable and exhorteth them to turne from that error and delusion and to take that counsell from him which would be soundly for their benefit and comfort Thus much for the meaning The parts may fitly be these two First the large offer which God maketh by the prophet in the first verse Secondly a reproofe and an exortation in the second The way and preparation being thus made let vs come more particularly to the matter it selfe and consider first the things which are set downe in the first verse namely in the free offer which God maketh by the Prophet which things are three First to whom he maketh it that is to them that thirst and to no other for so are the words Ho euery one that thirsteth come Secondly what he offereth to them euen whatsoeuer good things will quench their spirituall thirst as wine milke and water doe the bodily thirst saying come buy wine milke and water without money Thirdly vpon what cōdition he offereth this namely this that they beleeue him vpon his word and in token thereof come take and inioy it as their owne and this is the hardest that the Lord requireth of them by the Prophet To speake of these three points as they lie in order and to begin with the first we see that it is an high degree of profiting in the schoole of Christ and a token of Gods loue to thirst and earnestly to long after heauenly things as grace and eternall life For they who doe so must needs haue knowledge to discerne the price and excellency of them and also feele their owne need and necessity of them that they doe but pine and are as it were starued for want of them And for all this who are more contemptible either in theit owne eyes or the eyes of others then such be And yet these are called forth by the prophet as we see from amongst all other while they with the Publican thinke themselues to be a farre off and looke for no such thing to inioy and be partakers of that which is the best of all other And after the same maner speaketh the holy Ghost in other Scripture as in the Gospell by S. Iohn If any man thirst let him come to me and drinke meaning the same that the prophet here doth And our Sauiour in another place vttereth the same more plainely and fully though not in the same words saying The whole haue no need of the Physitian but the sicke And againe I came not