Chap.g. according to StM AT T H ß VP. Y3 as hé complaineth in that hundred and nineteenth Pfalm ; which was made (as is thought) in the midi} ofthole troubles, out of his ownobfervations and experiments. As for the Prophets that cameafter, which of them have not your fathers (lain ? faith our Saviour to the Pharifecs; whom hebids (by an Irony ) to fill sap the megfareof their fathers, and fore- telling that they (hall deal foby the Apoftles ( whom he there calleth, according to the cu- mat.z3.3 , 3, (tome of thatCountrey, Prophets, Wife -men and Scribes.) He 344 de i ndethof thole ferpents and brood of vipers, how they can e- fcape thèfe trealüres andhoards of wrath they have been fo long in heaping ? They had a little before delivered up John Baptist to Herod, and did unto him whatfoever they would, Mattb.17, 11,1a. Thereupon our Saviour departed out of Judea into Galilee, as Jahn the Evangelilt hath it, left he should infer the fame things from them. For though Herod were Tetrarch of, Galilee, and therefore it might feetn a fafer way for our Saviour to keep from thence(afterlohn was beheaded)and cocontinue inlusdea;yet foraf- much as he was but their flaughter.flave (as 2Y onncr was to the refit of the Biftiopsof' thofe daies) Chrift krew, that if he did decline their fury, there was no Inch caufe to fear Herod. Therefore . when fouie of the Pharifees ( pretending good will to him) bad him pack thence, for elfe Herodwould kill him : he replied, Got `10,.13 31;:, tell that fix, that I know both my time and my task, which he would be doingat today and to morrow ( that is, as long as he Tencrwbév7tf,. lilted) without his leave.. And the third day (when his hour iabfafue vn was oncecome) he fhould be facrificed : but it mutt be in /err- canrur,gutpro fàlenL, and by the Pharifees: for it befell not a Prophet to perifh ,lemjudéu r. out of lerafilm. There is was that Stephen was ¡toned, lames gea, Plainwith the fword, Peter imprifoned, and deftined to defiru -. C}ion, Paul whipt and bound , many of the Saints punifhed oft in every Synagogue, and compelledby the high-Priests authority, either toblafpheme, or flee to ¡trange Cities, as appeareth in ma-. ny places of the Aar, or rather pallions of the Apoftles: for none (out of hell) ever mitered harder and heavier things then they. See what S.Pau!witnefleth of himfelf, and think the likeof the reft, a Cor.6. 5. Verfe 13. 7caresbefit of the earth.] As fait keepeth flefla fromputrifyring : fodoe the Saints the world ; and are therefore fprinkled up and down ( here one and there one) to keep the re((fromrotting. Suillopecori animaprofile data., frix carnem Yurre ervarcr;
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