Preached at Saint Pauls

              preached at saint pauls philippians 3.2 32 32 BEWARE OF THE CONCISION HIS is ONE of those places of scripture which afford an argu- ment THIS T forthatwhichI1findeoftenoccasiontosaythatthere are not so eloquent books in the world as the scriptures for there is not onely that non refugia refugit refugit which calvin speaketh speaketh of in this place non refugit refugia in organis suis spiritus sanctus leporem & facetiae facetias face tias the holy ghost in his instruments in those whose tongues or pens he makes use of doth not forbid nor decline elegant and cheerfull and delightfull delightfully delightfull expression but as god gave his children a bread of manna that tasted to every man like that that he liked best so hath god given us scriptures in which the plain and simple man may heare god speaking to him in his own plain and familiar language and men of larger capacity and more curiosity may heare god in that musique munique that they love best in a curious in an har- monious style unparalleled by any for that also calvin adds in that place that there is no secular authour arthour Authour qui jucundis jucundis hocum vocum allu sionibus sion ibus & figures figuris magis abundiat abundat which doth more abound with persuasive perswasive figures of rhetorique nor with musicall musicale musicall cadences and allusions and assimilations and conformity and correspondency of words to one another then some of the secretaries of the holy ghost some of the authours authours of some books of the bible doe of this rule this text is an example these philippians amongst whom saint paul had planted the gospell goshell in all sincerity and impermixt had admitted certain new men that preached Tradition traditionalall ali ail and addi tignall tionall doctrines the law with the gospell goshell Gospell moses with christ I1