351 THE XXI. SERMON, VP- ON THE WEDNESDAYAFTER THE THIRD SONDAY I N LENT. MAT.. Tunc acceJferunt adeum ab Hyerofolimis Scribæ &Ph itfoei. Thencame vntohim fromHierufalem,the Scribes and Pharifees. His Gofpell is an Embaffage which the Scribes and Pharifees performed comming from Hierufalem toGennezaret,a Coun- trie of Galileewhere at thattime ourSauiour refided. But fo foolifhan Embaffage,from aNation fograue,and from a com- monwealth fo flourifhing as that was (as Saint Hierame hath noted it) was neuer deliueredby anybut themfelues. TheCar- thufian (ayes, That thefe Pharifees wereofZanedrin thatfupreame Councell which fucceeded thofefeuentie Elders chofen by God, for toaffift his Sealant c.Ytofes in the gouernment ofhis People. AndTheophilaft faith, That the Pha- rifees were defpifed throughout all the Cities of that Kingdome : but that thofeofHierufalem werecounted thegraueff amongft them, morerefpeEted than the reff, and of all other theproudeff andmolt infolent. WhoPeeingTome ofour Sauiours Difciples,7oeat with vnntPubhands,they madeajourneyofpur- pofevnto him. Theoccafionwhich added wings to their feet,&the determina- tion which they had in their breffs,was not that which theyhere publi(bed, but the manymiracles which our Sauiour wrought in the Land ofGalilee: for there was not that fickebodie, if hecould but come to touch his garmenr,but that he was prefentlymade whole. And this (asSaint Chryfome hath well obferued) was the caute oftheir canningvnto him. Tunc acreffernnt Then, and not till thendid they ffirre : his fame was now fpreadabroad,and when it had reachtto Hierufalem, it grewfogreat, that it ffrooke the Scribes and Pharifees ihtofuch afonifhmenr,and flirted vpfuchenuie in them, that defiring to leffenour Saui- ours honour, cutthe wingsof his famea little (hotter,anddifgraceanddifcredit him inhis perfon, they tookehold of fuchafoolifh andfriuolous occafion , as thelikewas neuer heard of ; As his Difciples walling, or not wafhing their G g x hands ; Euuie,the guide that brought tbe Pharifes toou Sauiour.
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