VE R.S,lo An Expojition, 'With Notes though the truth is, not fo much for their fakes, as the fake of the godly, to encourage.•rhem to patience: For I like Calvin·s Judg– ment well, that thefe lix Verfes are not fo much an admonition as a denunciation, wherein the ApolUe duth not fo much direEl them what to do, asforetell what lhould be done to them, that the godly might be enc;ouraged to the more patience under their oppreffioos ; for that the Apoftle inferreth plainly, Ve'rf. 7. I have been long in prefacing, but I hope you will judg it neceffary, it conducing much not only to the op~ning of this Paragraph, but of many other places 0~/trvat. in the Epifile. From the whole we may learn, rThat We muft not fIt~ fide!es in- fo ~Zltogether mindBelievers, but that We mufl give Vnbelievers fl;-uzt ut mfide their portion, terror to 'Whom terror belongeth, M \\Je/l comfort to lesnon1zeglt<at. '\,h ,.r: Ch 'fi S h. ll · d h D· r, · f Calvin ~. w om comJ art. n s ermon c 1eny aune at t e 1:1 crp es pro- , fit, butytt therearemanyldfonsforthemu/titude; MM.5.r,2. Jefm "When 'he faw the multitud~:, calledhu Difcip!,,s, (md taught · them: the DJfc1ples in the peoples hearing; and fo imerfperfech many things rhat are ofageneral ufe and profit. Go to now,] lly; vvv · ·The phrafe we opened before, •cis a kind of afciring or callmg them to the Throne ofGods Judgment. Ye rich men, ~~ ?TA.~<1'i~,,J He doth nor threaten rich meJ: fmp!y, but fuch as are afcerwards defcFibed, carn.-:d rich men, fuch as were drowned in pleafures, puffc·dup with priJe, worldly, wicked, op– preffive; and though he u-fe the word rich, yet the threatening·is appliable not only t9 rhofe thftt abufe their Wealth, but alfo their greatnefs, publique place, authority, power, as to Princes, Judges, Magifirates, and their Officers. B ~ caufe rhe ApofHe fpeaketh inde-. Ob{trvat. finitely, ye rich men, fomerhing is notable, That 'tis hard to poffef,– riches '0. 1 ithout fin. Riches are called the Mammo>.Z of u-nrighte~ oufne{s, Jldat. 16. 9· becaufe they are t~fual!y pofleffcd by wicked men,.the men ofGods hand,P[tt._.,I?· T4.· and b.ecaufe they'are mofi a~ dared and admiredby wicked mm-; ~ndbecaufe they are often got– ten by unrighteous dealing,and hardly kep-t without !in. 'Tis ail h~!rd matter to have them, and not to be hind red from Heaven by them, Mat.l9·z+not to grow proud,fenfual,injurious,carml and worldly. We fee the beafis,_ as Boars and Bulls,when they are full and in good p'light, growmank!en-and fierce: So do men wax i.nfol'ent .in the midfl: of their abundance•. Wdl then, do not covet nches fo much, or pkafe your felves in the e~joymem of them, but l~k to Y?llr heaHs with.the more care; ·.c1s an ea!ie matter to offend mthe. m1dfi . - 0~
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