72 4 Commentaryupon the Go[iel Chap.+, And by thegliflering of her pomp and preferment,, bath miffed Per, millions; as the going fire leads men into hedges and ditches :. or, as the fcrpent Scyitle, which when (he cannot over the fleeing p:ftengers,doth withher beautifull colours aftonifh and a- maze them, fo that they have nopower topaffe away till the have flung them to death. Verfep, Andke faith unto him, All theft thins Will 1 give thee.] Agreat catch Pure : even jut nothing : for he {hewed our Saviour only thews and fliadows, apparitions and refemblances of things. The word alto ufed in the former verfe for for rtAúz3. r) pta767, N r; fignifieth an opinion or imagination. So St Luke filesall Agrip_ 9 ; -.,,,v s pa pomp, but a fantafie. David tels us, that man walketh in a j i y o. vain fhadow. Now a fhadow is fomethingin appearance, nothing in fubaance : So theApotale calleth all thefe things, that the dc- vii profers our Saviour, ;;,,,ua, anaccidentall mathematical! figure, without folidity or fubfance. And further tels us, that this fi- "A` gure paff'eth away, is ever in tranfitu, like the ftreams of a river,,, thatpalling by the fides of a City, no man can flop or if we could retain the things of this life, yet not the world only pafleth lief; A 6 7. away ( faith the Apoflle) but the lugs thereof So that a man cannot make his heart delight in the fame thing fill. V. poff,, .A'7tvprcov r`t u/tim fafi'idio ¡nr. We loath after a whilewhat wehafted after TAà?uovi,. (as Amnon did Turar) and quickly finde a fatiety, yea an un- eele f fatisfyingneffe in the creature. For he that lovethElver 'hall not be f tisfied Withf:lver, nor thougft.hecould heap up his hoards to the fars, and ingroffe a monopoly ofall the wealth in the world. Nonplus utiata7r cor utero, yue,n.corpevs aura. You may affoon fill a bagwith wifdome, a chef with vertue, or a circle with a stiangle, as the heart of manwith any thingherebelow. All that earth can afford, is, fimtu ant Amu (faithone ), mega & Qw, kxE,w, faith another: Vanity and vexation, faith ,Sol©anon the wife : To whòfe impartiall verdie ( grounded upon fo good ex- perience) we (hall doe well to fubfcribe, without believing the devils crakes, or trying any further conclufons. The Centurifs. interpret, All thefe thins Will I give thee, thus; 1 Will make thee Pope. And indeed many Popes were advanced to that Sea immediately by the devil, as Hiftories relate, Who, had they Peatiey,at but obferved what is ufually done at their inthronization, would s Huard ° y never have been fobatty. For before the Pope is fet in his Chair fr ds fenerll. Ind-puts ehthis tripple Crown, a peece of tow, or. wad of fraw i, ice. Sacíares,. I '.elei. 7. 2.
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