244 w- t..4 Commentary upon the Ga(pel Chap.6- and fearfttll thoughts about fucce(fe. Now our Lord Chrift would have none of his fervants to care inordinately about any thing, but that, when they have donewhat they can in obedience to him, they fhould leave the whole matter of good or evil fur ceffeto his care. Tocare about the i{fucof our lawfall endeavours, is to ufurp upon God, to trench farm intohis prerogative divine, . to take uponus that which isproper to him. And it is na lefìe a fault to invadeGods part, then toneglecour own. Adde here- unto, that God out ofhis wife jutlice, ceaf_th caringfor fuch an one, and becaufe he will not be beholden to God to boar his burthen, he (hall bear it alone, to thebreaking ofhis back, or at. lea(l, till he is much bowed and cru(ht under it. If wa cern fuch as will put no trufl in us, but love to (land up -. on their own ground , we give than good leave : as contra- rily , the more we fee-our felves tru{led to., the more our ti- delity is cat-chill for them that flay upon us.. Thus.it is with our heavenly Father. Saying, what,/halflieeat ? Stc.] Our Saviour by theft diltrufi- fullQ./talons, graphically expretfeth the condition of covetous, Caitit±S, their endleffeproje&s and difcourfes in the air. They . arc full ofwords, and many queflions, what they &Ill dot., and. how they and theirs (hall be provided for? Theyhave n. ver done,, either moaning themfelves,or confulting tono parpofe, in things that either cannot be done at all, or not other wife. And fo fame uncler(land that dour Saviour, Lrsk T2.29. Wang not in dou6tfuld. 4`' f . ences; after he hadbrought in the rich fool, vef. 17. reafon- M.Ao- gerc. Msreconvenit tng and toying, WhatAallldoe, &c. And Selomon brings in loch ¢erbutn mar another fool, full of' words,_ and he recites his words, e.1 man. gaonidm cannot. tell roL.tt flail 6e, and what /ball be after him, who Can tell ? iftrurdiediho Eccicf.a0.14. And in thenext Chapter, ver.t. and fo forward, mines, zc: aex- he makes an1'ver tomany of thefe mans frivolous queries and ca- See 111 Harris M-u.5 7. vils, whenmoved to works ofmercy. Oldmen fp:cially are taxr And M.Pem. ed ofthis vv:aknefh, who arc apt to cork, becaufe they fear, faith bla.on Ecclu, t. Plutarch, on x clçs 6pi4ov7as xcu 9ci,,iov7u, that they flaalLnot have enough to keep them,.and bring them well home, as they call it; whence force conceive that covetoufnefft is calle,', The root of dl evil, I T im. 6. to. beeaufe as there is life in the root, when no lap in thebranches : fo covetonfaeire oft liveth, when other vices die and decay. It groweth, as they fay, the Crocodile, duth, as $png as he lived:, Yak
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