PRAECONIS EVANG.

what kind each person is, is not conjectured from speech and face, nor from words and deeds, but from the intimate hiding places and recesses of the human heart, whatever probity exists there is elicited. Here, not an arbitrary judgment, which belongs to an uncertain and doubtful matter, is exercised, but a judgment of what is certain and accurately known: here one stands by the judgment of God rather than our own. Whence it happens that he whom men, because he has obeyed the laws, has injured no one, and has rendered to each his own, consider a good man; God, if indeed he has done this from fear of punishment, or from hope and expectation of his own advantage, or from desire for praise, or from any other evil purpose of mind: since he is not whole, He will not consider him as sincere and honest. Wherefore, since this very approval, which the judgment of God requires, is so entirely and so severe and censorious: it follows that Paul requires from him who wishes to perform the duty of preaching the Gospel well, in these very words, that he not only satisfy men or please himself: but rather that he present his mind itself, as far as can be, purged from all vice, and entirely fashioned to the nod and will of God, pure and sincere to God himself, the censor of souls. To which matter it will primarily pertain that he be of such mind and morals