Chap.z. according to S M A r r tt E vv, 19 , rapinnt cxlum, nos,ctimd erinis noetris,detrudimerr in Gehenna n. None are to far fromChr,it, many times,as know- ing men. Some of the Scribes and Pharifees werevery Atheifts,for they knew neither the Father nor the Son. z.ìfrian the chief Liw- yer, Cjalen the chiefPh} fician, Porphyry the chief Ariftote_lean, P1'tinur the chief Platonic , Libanius and Lucian the chief Ora- tours of that age, were all protect enemies to t brift. No Church , xAtor, was funded ac Athens, AFts 17. which }et Den,ofifhenes calls xaA , ea.A1e -e the foul, fun and eye of Greece, Euripides, the greece ofGreece, i.Jddls. Thucydide, and Diodorass, the common fchool of all men, the r'ddD.s 'x Mart ofgoodlearntng,&c. The greateft c Jerks are not alwanes the fib "°y witeft men in the affairs of God. Howbeit, learned Nathana,1, 77,47x,,, dv6?4- Iofephof Arimathea and Nicodemue, mailers in lfraed, were Di- rrNv. fciples toour Saviour: left if he had called fimpie men only,it might have been thought, quòi fhiJent exfimplicitatedreepti, that they loannes de were deceived out of ch it fimpitcity,täith one. Turre cremate, Verte 2. Saying,Where ie be that is born King of the Jeans?] As Lok. 7.1g. prefuppofing a common. notice. But the Kingdom of Godcometh not by obfervation,neither is it of this world. Chrift is fomewhat an obfcure King here,as Melchifedcch was; andhis Kingdomcon- Rom.1}, ; f, lifts in righteoulnefie,and peace, and joy in the holyGhoft, which I rov,r t, ro. the ftranger.worldling meddles not with : The Cock on the dung- hill e&ecros not this Jewel. For We have flex ho ffarre in the EaTh ] Some rumour of'the Barre of Jacob they had heard and 'received,l,kely, either from Ba- la rms prophecy,Nsemb. 4.17) who was an Eaft Countrey-mans Hui,o Po,lid. Or from the Chaldean Sibyl, or from the Jews in the B bytonifh Fol. g captivity, and now they make their utcof it. But the Scripture gi- veth moregrace,lam.4 6. Onely cake heed ,thatye receive not the grace ofGod invain, 2Cor.6.1. And are come to rrorfhip him] With a religious worfhip : to kitleathis mouth, as the word fignifieth : and as Pharaoh feid to Jofeph, they (hall all kille at thy mouth. Wo worth tous, if we 1¿ijr, net the Sonwith a kiffe of faith and love t fìth he is now fo pran,:, clearly revealed unto ns,nor by the fight ofòneïtar only,as to thefe, but by a whole Heaven betpangled withBars, thoughnot in every part, yet in e% cry zone andquarter of it, as one faithof ourChurch. Wehave a wordOf Prophecy ( how much more is chis trueofthe holy Cofpel ?) more lure then the voice that came from. Heaven a Pic.1.1p, in the holy, mount (faith St Peter,) whereunto we Ihall do well C 2 to maifiturpelov
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