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coincidence) both there, and elsewhere the world 

 over. 



And now, let me lead you up to the top of Mount 

 Ida, the proudest height in Crete ; from whence 

 Geographers tell us, we may descry both seas, 

 and see all the cities, like a crown, in circle about 

 it. There let us make a stand a while, and look 

 about us, and consider holy Titus, with those nu- 

 merous plantations, and nurseries of primitive 

 Christianity, distributed, as it were* areolatim, 

 like so many distinct beds, and knots in the Eden 

 of God, planted and watered, and drest by Apos- 

 tolical hands, all under his care and custody. 

 Consider him (by way of recollection) under the 

 variety of circumstance, wherein the text hath 

 hitherto presented him to our meditations, con- 

 sider him a single person ; no colleagues, no com- 

 peers, no co-ordinates. For, as our Lord promised 

 the keys,(and doubtless so gave as he had promised 

 them,) not to a college, but to single persons,^ 

 Tihi dabo — et quodcunque (tu) ligaveris : So the 

 Apostles, at the next remove; St. Paul here, I am 

 sure, for one, intrusts all, not to communities and 

 consistories, but to individuals ; for so runs the 

 style. Ego Te-ut Tu sicut ego Tibi, all personal, 

 and particular. Consider him determined to a 

 fixed and constant residence, left, and settled in 

 Crete, the ordinary and perpetual governor of 

 that church. For we ought to have more regard 

 to reason and the true nature of things, than to 



* n§«»o-»a< wpacriat. f Matth. xvi. I 9. 



