Preached upon Whitsunday 1624

              preached upon whitsunday conjecturally assigned to 162 162. 6241 I1 COR I1123 12.3 123 2 3 ALSO NO MAN CAN SAY THAT IESUS IS THE LORD BUT BY THE HOLY GHOST E READ that in the tribe of benjamin which is by inter- pretation WE W pretation filius dextre dextrce the son of the right hand there were seven hundred left handed men that could sling stonl stoneo stineo stanl at a haires breadth and not faile S paul was of that tribe and though he were from the beginning in the purpose of god filius dextra dextrce dextrx A man ordained to be a dextrous instrument of his glory yet he was for a time a left handed man and tooke sinister wayes and in those wayes a good markman mark man a laborious and exquisite persecu- tor of gods church and therefore it is that tertullian sayes of him paulum mihi eliam etiam genesis olim epromisit repromisit repromisit I1 had a promise of paul in moses then when moses said lacob blessed benjamin thus ben- jamin shall ravin as a wolfe in the morning he shall devoure the prey and at night he shall divide the spoils that is at the beginning paul shall scatter the flocke of christ but at last he shall gather and reunite re unite the nations to his service As he had breathed threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the lord so he became Os orbi sufficient sufficiens A mouth loud enough for all the world to heare and as he had drawne brawne and sucked the blood of christs mysticall mystic mystically all body the church so in that proportion that god enabled him to he recom becom pensed lensed that damage by effusion of his owne blood he fulfilled the sufferings of christ in his flesh as himselfe himselfe sales to the colossians and then he bequeathed to all posterity these epistles which are as S augustine cals them vjera ecclesias ecclesics eccleshr Eccles eccie Eccle sics hr the paps the breasts the udders adders of the church and which are as that cluster of grapes of I11