124 A Commentary upon theGilei Chap.5. fervaret, neputrefceret, faith Varro. Swine and fwinifh per- Eons have their fouls forfall only, to keep their bodies from (link- Mark r 6. t q. ing aboveground. Chrift and his people are fomewhere called the Plál.89 t a. fJul ofthe world.. The Saints arecalled, all things ; the Church, everycreature. Tabor andHermon are put for Eaft and Weft for Godaccounts of the world by the Church, and upholds the world for the Churches fake. Lookhow hegave Zoar COLor,and Aá.27 all the fouls in the 'hip to Paul ; fo he cloth t h; reff of man- kinde to the righteous. Were it not for fuch yehorphat.r J Would not King. ;.r4 look toward norfee thee, laidElifba to ?ebony's, faithGod lutiva.;' to the wicked. The holy feed is, fiatumen terra, faith one Pro- Prov.l o.2 r. pher, the earths fubflance orfettlement : The righteous are fznda- .uia propret mentors mundi, the Worlds foundation, faith another. I bear up vrotos ftabetí; the pillatsof it, faith David. And it became a common pro- 'et/ manda. verb in the primitive times, Ab ati snibue non' aret msndsu Ivterc. But for theppiety and praiers of hriftians the world could, not 1.1".11.,75.;. P Y P fubfiff. "It is a good conclufion of Philo, therefore, orertna, ut Lib.tale nai- tttnquam columna in domo virlultsu permmeat, ad calamitatum gratiou. Abra. remedium : Let us pray that the righteous may remain wich us, fora prefervative, as a pillar in the houfè, as the fait of the earth; But as all good people, fo good.Minifters efpecially are here laid, 7ottrinafads for their doftrine, to be the[atof the earth, and for their lives, et`[`tatu`u' The light cf' theWorld. Salt hath two things in it, a.4corem t -Pit,t,a3. it porem, fharpnelie and favourinefle. Minders mutt reprove 'menfharply, that theymay be (iund in the faith, and a fweet la- your toGod, favourymeat, as that of Rebecca; a fweet meat -of- feting, .meet for the wafters tooth, that he may eat and bleffe them. Call they mutt their crufes full of this holy (alt into the unwholfomewaters, and upon the barren groundsof mens hearts as Elsfha once of Jericho) fo (hall God fay the word that all be . whole, and it (hall bedone: No thought canpaffe between the"re- ceit and the remedy. But if the plchaveloft hìs your, &c.] A loofeor lazy Mini- fler is the worft creature uponearth, to fit for noplace, as for hell: As unfavoury falt'is not fit for the dung-hill, but makes the very ground barren, whereupon it is call. Who are now devils, but they which once were Angels of lfght ? C'srrupticoptimi puma, as the fweeteft wine makes the fcwrefl vinegèr, and the finest tleth isrefohtedinto the vileft earth. Woe to thole dehoneftamenta Matth,ó. cleri, thà' with8lies Tonnes, cover foul fames_ under a white Ephod :'
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