176 A Commentary upon the C el Chap.5; c fheaven (not fo lob, Chap.31.26.) Truly ( faithSolomon ) the _clet.I I 6, light is fweet, and aplea(ânt thing it is fir the eyes' to b<hold the . fin : and S. Chryfoflown wondreth at this, that whereas all fire Flom. s ad naturally afcendeth, God bath turned the beams of the Sun toward Fo? Ànu°46. theearth, made the light thereof' to&ream downwards. It is for S, Li.; earth is our fakes and fervice dcubtlefle: whence alto the Sun'hath his n t covered r name in the Hebrew tongue(ShemeJh) a (avant, as being the fer- Witi3 , that mawws o ray vast generall of man-kinde; whiles he fhines indifferently upon inhabit tr. the evil and the good,and toboth imparteth light and heat. S :glees oh- And his rain to fall] Not only upon flowers and fruit-trees, (.rve,ehat their but alto upon the briars and brambles of the wildernefle. Thofe iy;,pt tailtz bottles of rain,the clouds, are veflels ( faith one) as thin as the li- re, the ihore theutrom it : quor which is contained in them : there they hang and move, whereof no though weighty with their burden: but how they are upheld, and renen can be why they fall here and now, we know not, and wonder. This we ggi\ e,, but the know ( and may well wonder) that God makethhis Sun to fhine, h;;zhc of the and his rain to fall on the evil and unju&alto. What to great matter `he rove is it then if we light upour candle to tuch, or let down our pitcher Ole lane'. > r p Ha that they may drinke ? This is our Saviours inference here. The D A ne S 5 51. dew, we fee,talleth as well upon the dayes -eye, and thi&le, as upon l,gens u":uoi the rote and violer. eu fab0'`' ""'n On the jufl,and on the unjnfl ] Thofe whom S. Matthew cal- f? pec,tuar,le cdentibusfbi lethu nm njull, S. Luke calleth uankgf:ll. Ingratitude is an-high to ttu,ibas, c degree of inju&ice. God is content we have the benefit of his crea- erfulir con'er- tutes and comforts, fohe may have the praiteof them. This is all etto a1u6s ; .tub'' the rent he looksfor, and this he flands upon ; he indents with us merfa rhheü, /Hi for it, Pfal.5 o.15. and Gods fervants, knowing how heexperts z- de ¿fcreor. and accepts it, doe ufually oblige themfelves to it, as that which el? I. taen pleafeth himbetter then an oxe that bath hornsand hoofs : And ,a eatoc ÿ; íí30 they have been carefull to return it, as the Could bodies that refleft u ,it erJ4t. t.o n the heat they receive from the Sun-beams, upon the Sun again( But n-oa men are like the Moon, which the fuller it is oflight, the fu then it gets off the Sun from whom it receiveth light : Like fprings of water,that arecoldeff, when theSun fhineth hotteftup- o3 them : Like the Thracian flint, that burns with water, is c1ucnchcd with oyl : or the dead lea, that twalloweth the (-liver 'area:Ls of tweet Jordan, and yet grows thereby neither greater nor tweeter. Doe ye rim requite the Lord, Oye fiolifh peopleand unwife ? Doe ye thus rob him of his praife, and fo run away with his rent ? Is this the bcff return we make him for his many matchlefc arxus. Luk.6 35. l'tzl 6) 3 !. Den .3 .6.
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