OF CHRIST'S CONTEST, &c.
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pared to receive overtures of peace, however vile the proposer. But after it was consumed they exercised the severest justice upon their enemies, nor could any one then be redeemed even by the sacrifice of all he was worth[1].
APPLICATION.
My beloved, God thus treats sinners. For the soul, when beset by vices, has an opportunity of procuring peace as long as the light of life burns.
TALE XIX.
OF CHRIST'S MANLY CONTEST AND VICTORY.
In the reign of Cæsar there lived a noble and valiant knight, who once rode by a certain
