184 A Commentaryupon theGo(1bel Chap.6. Synagogues, publike affemblies and flreets, as ftage- playersan in open places, and by drums and outcries get as much company to- gether as they can. And as they can an to the life thole whom they perionate, yea out ftrip them in outward anions, fodoe hy- . pocrites, the true Chriftian. Doth the Pdblicanfix his eyes on the ground ? thole hypocrites in Ifaith will hang down their heads like bullruihes. Dock Timothy weakenhis conilitution withab- ftinence ? the false Pharifee will not only weaken his conftitu- i Cr.13 3. lion, but wither his complexionwith falling. Doth Zachcsu give half of that he hath to the poor ? the pretender to piety and cha- rity willbatow all his goods to teed the poor, and b.fides give his cats. Opelcut body to be burned,as Servetttt did at Geneva, Anno 1555. And &char lib- i. de all for a name, for a little glory among men, which is but a breath, ctrV o.c. r. and yet not able to blow fo much as one cold blaft upon hypo- crites, when they (hall be call into unquenchable flames, when God (hall wash off their varuiih with rivers of brimflone. No natural' facehath foclear a whiteand red ,as the painted. No rufh Nodurn in is to green and lmcoth, as the bullruih. He is curious to a miracle fürpo guarir. that can finde a knot in it : yet within is nothing but a ufeleffe Yta,5s.5. and fpongy pith, Over fair thews are a ¡nit argument of un- foundneffe. Verily I fiiy untoyou] q. d. Ycu would little thinke it, and themfelves will hardly beleeve it : for they are an impudent kinde ofpeople,and will not loon bePaid. But I affevere and affure you Ira s .c. of it,in the word of Amen,the faithful' and true witner,Rev.3 14. DiYr:idi, fellsr all the words of whole mouthare in righteotsfneire, there is no- parrepr°rero- thing fro.wardorpervcrfein them, Prov,8.8. that this is the very de,re, ea'un , and me truth, ti will prove it fo. Alf s that have fed on hemlock, rod:tern aunt. p Dlihiotas in are fo ftupified thereby, that they lye for dead, and feel not till half Dijcor. their hides behileded off : then they rife, and run awaywith a foul -4wixe,,, Thcy noife. So theft. receive it as They have their reward] Paid them down upon the nail in rea- their full pay : dy moneYr and havegiven their ac q uittance. They take up all their nceámxn an Acquit. wages afore the years-end, they receive it now, and leave none till ranee. hereafter. Itsall they are ever like to have,and let themmake them Luk 6.23. merry with it. Egregiam verb laudem , & .folia ampia re. irgit. frrtto. A poor reward, God wot ; but 'cis that they would have. Mercedera ¡u- arn,nonDei, 'Tù their ownreward,not Gods, faithS. Hierom. As yodtu went Mier. to b,v ownplace, a place of hisown providing; fo thefe have their At3.i.z 5. own reward; much good mayit doe them: Here they have their conlilation
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