9z A Commentary 0°r the Gofjiel Chap+ weknow not whither, with Abraham doeweknow not what, Ifu.zc.Ya. with Gideon. Ifye Will enquire, enquire, faith Ifdiah, return, come. Aquick paffage, and full of quickning. Like that of the Cicer. epifl ad Oratour, Sidormis,expergifcere ; ftflat, ingredere; fi ingrederiry Attic i,a.cp.z; curre; ft curric, atdvola. Courts have their citó, citó , quick, quick : and Courtiers ufe to obferveand improve their mollîffima fandi tempera : So muf}Chriflians. God is but a while withmen in theopportunitiesof grace. He comes leaping on the mountains, Cant.a.8, and skipping on theNils : and, being come, Jre,ftands at the door bevel.;, zo, and knocks, by the foundofhis Word,, andmotions of his fpiric. He fits not, but Bands : while a man isBanding, weday, he is go- goC 9, i z, . ing, And Woebe untous, i f hedepartfrom us. God hashhis lea- foil, his harveff for judgement, Matth.t3.3o. And is now more Heb z.3. quick and peremptory in rejeéfing men, then of old : , For how (hall we efcape, ifWe negle1 lô great %älvation, as is now preach- ;`. ed ? Our Saviour would not fuller the man that faid he would fol- low him, to let fo much time, as to bury his father. Excufes he takes for refufals, delaies for denials. As Sarnllof his Kingdom : fo dothmany a man his foul, by not ditcerning his time : And troops of them that target God, goe down to hell, Pfal.9. r 7. Qua- re caf4igemus mores &moras noftras. Let us up andbe doing,thut the Lord may be with us. Verfe 21. He iw other two brethren, Lames, &c.] Three par ofbrethren, at leaft, our Saviour called to the.Apoltle(hip; to (hewwhat brotherly love fhould be found amongft Mini(ters ; what agreement in judgement and aftedion. There the Lord fl s u1., commands the blefng, and lifefir ever more. As Where envying andfirif is, there ss'confufon, and every evil work, Jim. 3. 16. Hence the devil laboureth (allhe can) to fet Minifters at variance, and to lowedi(lenfion amongft them (as betwixt Paul and Bar- nabas) that thework maybe hindered. Divide& impera, Make divi[iion , and fo get dominion , was a maxime of Machiavel, which he learnt of the devil. What woeful! tragedies bath he railed alatebetwixt the Lutherans andZuinglians ? What come- dies have thePapills compofedout of the Churches tragedies ? To tar 1:u-I2sant, totter the faction, they joyned themfelves to the Lutherans in iro prccìo be.be" that facramentary quarrel!: they commended them, made much bant,ac 'um of them, and almolt pardoned them all thatloffe they had fufained Ken fceant sbue by them. This,,that holy man of God Oecolampadius bitterly 4,;,,41, i r ; bewa4eth, in a letter to the, Lutherans of Suevia. The error (faith
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