,215Mtsteefi'Mtst tsiNVeAstWO 97t .. z é :oJw. THE XXXIIII. SERMON, VPON THE TV ESD eX 2r eifFTEk PASSION SVNDAY. IoHN. 7. eXmbislabat5efss8 in C,alileam,non eninzvolebat in Iudæ- am ambulare, quia qu crebant Iud el interficere. Fterthefe things, Ufa( walkedinGalilee, andwouldnotavalke in Iudsa,ferthe lewesfaughttokill him. After thefe things, that is, after thofe great myracles which hehadwrought in Capernaum ; andafter that molt deepeand learned Sermon of his bodie and bloud, Saint/ohm faith, Thatour Sauïour Chrift retyring himfelfe from Iudxa, went and wrought myracles in the Cities of Galilee, becaufe the lests fought to kill him. And becaufe the enuious Murmurermay chance to fay, That hee withdrewhimfelfe from Iudxa , left theScribes and Pharifees fhould difcouer his trickes and findout his falte play ; the Euangeliftaddeth , That therewas no fuch matterto he feared, but that waiting for the houre of his dearh,alreadie determined in Heauen, he was defirous in theinterim to flinke out of the way, to free and del iuer his bodiefrom that malice and danger which he tawit was like tobe fbieét vnto in Iudxa. The GreekeTexts read, In Judd,: & Galilea ; but Saint Auguiline, Saint Cyril, and Saint Chryfoflome read it in the Acufatiue, In ludaam&Galileam, (id eft) PerGalileam. Saint Chryfoflome faith, Wenpoterat ambulare in ludaam ; which is all one withNoleba:,FIecouldnot ;that is,Hewould not : which is anvfuall phrafeof fpeech. leties walkedinGalilee,&c. It is ruade a generalidoubt amongft allthe Com- mentators, Whyour SauiourChrift , beingable totriumph fo eafily ouer the powerand malice ofhis enemies, fhould withdraw himfelfe from their pre- fence, whom hemight (ifhe would) baue trampled vnderhis feet .f To prooue whichpointwere a needleffe labour, therebeeingfo many Prophecies and fo many places of theone and the other Teftament, which fay as much ; and thofe loud fhrieking cries which the Deuills roared forth, affrighted , and tur- ningcowards in his prefence, are fufficient proofes thereof; likewife Deaths cowardlineffe confirmesthe fame,Egredietur Diaholcas, antefaciem eius ibis Mors; the ouerthrowingofthe RomanCohorts withone onelyword ; his caufing the ftones 51-9 Godepower ncúermore fecnethan in his pardon.
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