CiÌiAP.2.6. -------- 406 Mark.losr. Matth,ry Matth.ar3a. 4 Pfal.sy' 7, vt Commentarieupon the man ( otherwifebewrayingmany great corruptions)fo lonely were they unto him, that it is laid, he /sued him. When children crieHofànna,what a great prouocation ofthe elder fort is ir, of which the Lord will make great vfe to their (nameand conuincement:that as it was a fhamefull re- buke to the Ifraelites, whenChrift Paid of theCananite, fierely,lhauenot foundfogreat faith in lfraci: Co !hall the elder fort be confounded , when he !hall lay, Purely I hauenot found fogreat faith, zeale, knowledge, o- bedience in rulers, fathers, mailers, as in prentifes, feruants, children.Or as he prouoked the Pharifres; lehn came in theway ofrighteoufneffe sndyee beleeuednot , the Publicans andharlots beleeuedhim, and yet when you law that, you neither beleeued, nor repented ofyour vnbeleefe, verely,I fay untoyou, that Publicans andharlots (hall enter into heauen beforeyou: fo !hall it be Paid; The elder fort receiued not the word , but many of the younger fort were diligent hearers ; and when the cider law this,yet-re- pented they not tobeleeue it : verily theyounger íhá11 be gathered into heauen before the elder,who without timely repentancethal neuer come there. Fourthly, young men had need call their walesjo remembrance, that their confciences mayhaue peace in the tellimonie thereof, when they are older : for the vanities of youth vexe the heart many yeares after. Dauid praied againft thefnnesof hi youth, not without a bitter fence and fling of them. It was the voiceof Ephrains,ler.31.19. [PAWafhàmed, yea confounded, becaufe 1didbeare the reproach ofmyyouth : God may now in thy youth fuffer thee for want of knowledge and confcience, tobee fenfleffe of thy molt grofle firmes, as Iofephs brethren were; but after- wards if thou belongeft vntohim , he will waken thy confcience and make the thought of them as bitter as euer the praetife ofthem was plea- fant, whenthey (hall fill thee with trouble of confcience ,and make thee call great things into queltion; yea bring theenot onely todoubt of thy effeauall calling to grace, but almolt to defpaireof thy faluation, efpe- cially if thy fumes of youth by long continuance be growne into cu- ftomes, and can hardly thereforebe fubdued, even thenwhen thou art conuerted. Wouldeft thoube fenced now againit all there afterclappes? Now is the time wherein thou maift preuent fuch afflictions: Nay more, thoumaift bydrawing neerevnto the Lord, and bearing his yoke in thy youth, laythe foundations of thy comfort in any future a flitlion, du- ring the dales ofthypilgrimage, as Iob did: the one and thirtieth chap- ter of whofebooke containeth nothing but a gathering vp of himfelfe vntohis comforts, and,hopes, through the recalling vnto minde, the in nocencie andvprightneffe of the former part ofhis life: As Hezekiah al- to did , who when fentence ofdeathhad palled from the mouthofGod and =1111111
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