Book IV. Chap.2.Sea:. 4 m<'lne skill, yea when the difciples wondered at the magnificence of the Temple, he rebuked them rarher; but when he fees the grace or aCl:s of faith, he fo approves of them thar he is raviihed with wonder ; he that rejoyced in the view of his creation, rejoyceth no le!fe in the reformation of his creature, beh~; /d thou art . faitc my love, behold thou art(sir~, there is no fjot in the!>, my ji}ier, Cant. 4 • 7l 9 . my fl'oufe , thou haft wou11dea my r;eart, th~u haft W3flnded my heart withoneofrby e7es, Cant.4 7, 9· To C0>clude, he that both wrought ,his faith. and wondered at it? uoth now reward it, go thy '1¥!:), and a, t hc11 h. jl be!eeved, fo be tt rmto tiHe, and hisfervant wM healed in 1he filfe fame hot:re. Lukq, 11. rer.tf. 3. Now it was, .even the d,ry after, th<~~t 'fefm goes into the City of ?(aim. The frui tful clouds are not ordained to fall all inone field, Nt~im mufi partake of the bounty ofChrifi a~ well as Cana, or C apernaum. Thither come, he no fooner enters in at the gate of the City, but he meets a funeral; a poore widow, with her weeping friends, is following her only fonne to the grave; Jefus obferving her fad condition, he pities her, comforts her, and at !aft relieves her : here was no fo licitor but his own compalTton . in his former miracles he was fought and fued to ; his mother at the marriage-feafi begged afupply ofwine, theRulercameto him for a fonne, the Centurion came to him for a fervant, but now Chrifi offers a cure to give us a lc!foh, that whiles we h;~ve to do with the Father o.f mercies, o:tr miferies and ajfliElions are the moft powerful fuitcrs. Chrifr fees and obferves the widows fadne!fe and pn::fently all parts ofChrifi confpire her good, his heart melt~ into compajfion of her, his tongue fpeaks cheerfully and comfortably to her, weep r.ot; his feet carry him to the Beer, his hand toucheth the coffin aud he[aid, 7oung mnn I fay untc thee, t~rife; Le how the Lord of life fpeaks with command ; the fame voyce fp.:akq to him, that ihall one day fpeak to us, and raife us out of thcdufi of the earth; neither fea, nor death, nor hell can detainc their dead: wh en he charges them to he delivered . we fee not Chrifi firetching himfelfe on this 'dead corps, as Elia!c, and elifo• upon the fo.mes of the Sunarnite, and of the widow of Sarep~ta; nor L>e we him kneeling down and praying, as Peter did for DoroM, buc we heare him fo fpeaking to the dead, as if the dead were alive, twd fo {peaking to the dead that by the word hi! fpeaks, he makes him alive, yrmng man I (ay unto thee arife; and he
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