On the Pa[fion~ 293 eavy, and all the aboininable lulls that a– bounded in the wo-rld in his days. We are COf!lt11only little concerned in the interefis of religion; anCl therefore do apprehend but little trouble in thefe. But if the foul ' of righteous Lot vvas grieved vvith the ini– quities of the place where he lived, and i[ . Da·virl is p;ut to cry out, Wo is me that I.fojourn in 1.Wefech, jhat I dwell in the tents of · J(edar*; how deeply do we think the blef– fcd foul of the holy' Jejiu n1uft needs have· ·· been r·ierced by every. blafphe.mous word. that he I:eard, by every wicked atlion he beh'eld! Doubtlefs it was no fi11all forrow ' that n1ade hin1 cry out, 0 faithlefi andperr-verfe gener(ltion, how long jhall] be -with' y,ou? how lo11g jhall I Jit/Jer you t?. Nor . was he a little moved, when his zeal did carry him to that feverity, which, if we did not confider the caufe, would feen1 very unlike to the wonted n1eeknefs of his- fpirit, in whipphig the tra9ers out of the temple. Add hereunto his tender compa.ffion to'\" wards 1nen~ which could not but make him· exceeding_ forry, to fee then1 frufir-ate the_ method of his n1ercy, and ruin the1nfelves by their enmity againfi: hin1; to hear them reproach the holy. doClrine whicl1 he taught, B b-3 and~ ~ P.fal. exx. s~ .
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