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four properties which did belong to the good 
I Shepherd, all which may be fitly applyed to 
I who is the gooi Shefherdi For, i. He feedeth us, 
hegivethus food and raiment, health and plenty, 
mercies fpiritual and temporal. 2. The Shepherd 
is to take care that the Sheep do not wander; ChriH, 
as the Shepherd of our fouls, giveth us his holy 
Spirit to guide and direft us, that we fin not againft 
him. 3. In like manner he defendeth us from the 
Devil and all his inftruments (this he doth by his 
own power, and the tutelage of Angels) who by 
all waies, by force and fraud, endeavoureth to op- 
pofe and ruine the Church. 4. Neither doth he 
negleft wandring and weak Chriftians; he taketh 
them up in his arms, and wipeth all tears from 
their eyes. 
But, to conclude, we faid before,C^4^.20. fpeak- 
ing of th&Wolfy that two drums, one covered with 
the Wolve’s skin, and another with a Sheeps skin, 
will never agree in found ; and that an inftrument 
tuned with the gut of a Wolf, and the gut of a 
Sheeps will never make any harmony : and that a 
Sheeps skin and a Goats skin layed together, the 
hair of the Sheeps skin will ihead : the reafons of 
which Com- aim Gefuer giveth us in thefe words ; 
It is no wonder that a Wolves skin which, by na- 
ture is more hard and folid, fhould give a clearer, 
& lewder found than a Sheeps skin which is more 
foft and porous : and, it is no wonder that a hard, 
folid body,fhould endure longer than a body that 
is more foft and pliable ; as we fee the feathers 
of an Eagle mW. laft longer (it being by nature 
Q very 
