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 17 should be invited to some man’s table, and kindly entertained thereat, it would be un- kindly taken if we should find fault with any misorder; but for as much as all Christ’s actions are only the instructions of Chris- tians ; therefore every Christian man, but especially preachers, to whom it more par- ticularly appertaineth, must learn by this example, how to behave themselves when they are invited to great feasts; namely, to speak to the conscience freely when they shall see a fault. The best requital that we can make for our good cheer, is to give good counsel and wholesome admonitions to them that invite us. When Christ dined with the Pharisee, Luke xi. 18. and was misliked for not washing before dinner, he thereby took occasion to reprove their hy- pocrisy, even their outward shew of holi- ness, which was the most frequent shew and sin of the Pharisees. And at another time he noted them, Luke xiv. for press- ing to the chief places at banquets, declar- ing, that modesty is to be used at the sit- ting down to meat, whatever guests should be bidden to our tables. So should preach- ers behave themselves towards those that do invite them when they, see perhaps some fault or disorder, either in the master