Things more admired for their rarictic, that greatneffe. Sunday intent. SBr:a.S. thou maiftwant them;butif thoufhouldffatterthe abroad;thoufhotíldit haue Gods plentie. - He thatfowes not, reapes not; Dat'e,&dabiturvobis, Giué; and it ilea. (hallbegiúen'vntoyou; and if your bore ball not increafe, Comeandblamemee ; HalleIperadventureBeene to my People likea Wildernefewithout,fruit? The likecon- ters ceitdothS.Chryfafaome touchvpon , expounding , Communicating to theneceßi- tiesof theSaints. Saint Gregorie treats theverie felfe fame Doctrine, vpon that placeof lob, if Ide/Hie ham thatpayedby becaufleema not cloatbed. And Saint Ambrofe in a Sermon whichhe makesof Failing, puts this difference betwixt paying that which thouoweff,and giuingofalmes to the Poore, towhom thou art not indebted ; that the one is inprofit of him that receives it ; the other in profit of himthat giues. And therefore inScripture Almesis called Benediiiio, of Bleßing,which is that which augments ourwealth. Secondly;OurSauiour was willing that theyflould gathervp thefragments, to the end that the greatneffeofthe miracle Mould bethe more notorious , and that they fhruld fee of flue louestwelve baskets Ball of whatremained , :betides that which they carried away in their bofomes their fleeues, andtheir pockets, elpecially'ycur womenand your children. And. howbeit fomeofthem'might keepè them asreliquesdfithisfotafeand ftraStu wonder yet rhe diligence therein vfedmightbeë verie wife and deuout. Saint ChryJoflomegiues vs this note, That albeit this miracle ought to haue left a firme andallured confidence in euerie oneofthem;yet they were fo wholly forgetful!thereof,that our Saui- our was driuenafterwardto putthan inmind thereof, and taxe them of this mat.' 6. their obliuion. Thereareothernibrall reafonsgiven for it, writ by diuers vp- `n"'`'$' on this place,which I purpofely omit.. When themenhad f aene the miracle that l e f u a d i d, [ aid ,'This ie o f a truth thePro- phet thatfbould coneinto the world . They confidering the greatneffeofthe mi- racle,but not fomuch potentiam,as qualitatem& nouitatem,the power,as the qua- tie andnoueltie thereof; theycriedout , This is the Prophet whom the World expeð. Saint AugrJiine faith, That greater is that miracle which God wor- keth vpon the multiplication of theirwheat harueft ; but becaufe it is fo com- mon, theymake no great wonder of it.It is natural vnto vsmore toadmire new,thau great things. Seneca treating in his Natural! Qaeftions, of our extraordinarie co- mets, which do fo much amafc theworld,faith,That the Heauens,theStars,the Planets, ftrikenoadmiration intovs, though it beea mcruailous and ftrange worke becaufewee fee it is fo ordinarie with vs. The Sunne isthe faireft Creature that euer Goddifpatched out ofhis hands [ Yaa admirabile, opus" excelfi ; ] yet the beautie of it's beames Both not draw on any admiration ; but it's Eclipfes, becaufe they are rare and feldome. So likwife in the hat movieand concord of the Heauens, their influences, and their Starres, to- gether with their difpofition, and the beautie of the Orbs ; Knoweit thou the 1,4,3e courfeof [levies ? be . The Greekes expound this place, of the Clouds; Who can declare the nature of the Clouds ? Who,it's muficke andharmo- nic Whocan make the muficke ofthe Thunderto ceafe,or flop the courfeof the Lightning &c.Andall thcfe, though they befuch ftrange wonders,donot mooue vs toadmire them but vponanychange or alteration, wee Randaftoni- fliedat the noueltie thereof. When Tefms thereforeperceived that they wouldcome and take him to make him a courteoutbe- King, ¿c. Our Sauiour Chrift had gained fo much good loue and opinion h i u the amongft themby this hiskindneffe that he had fhewedtoward them, that after the people were difmifled (as Euthimina hathobferuedit) they determined to Pp make
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