Chap.7. according to Sr MA T T H a vv. 259 deer child of God, and approve a detellable heretick, as Philip did Simon Magus. Ifhis eyes be too fait fixed either on the Saints infirmities or the hypocrites fair pretences. they may bring forth, as7acobs fheep did, (potted fruits. But cox f ide re f i not the beam that is in thine own eye ] Mort mens mindes areas ill fet as their eyes : they can turne neither of them inwards. They tell us ofa kinde of witches, that furringa- r, vniz spud broadwould put on their eyes, but returning home, they boxed Phncum them upagain. The Philofophers call upon us, to look to the hin- derpart o the wallet. And St lames faith, Be not many A?afers ;.r,a. or teachers : and mark the reaton, which he prefcribeth as a reme- dy : For in many things Weflame all. Now thole that in the fente oftheirown finfulneffe are poore in fpirit, will foon.be meek and mercifull to their fellow-(timers : they that have proved their own Gala, works,znd found all to be ( not good and very good, as God did Jer aq ° z '4' his, but) naught and thricenaught, as the figgs in 7eremy, willbe content tobear one anothers burdens, and rettore tuch as are over- taken in a fault with the fpirit of meekneffe, confidering them- felves, let they alfobe tempted. They will beas willing to lend Erratic veni mercy now as they may have need to borrow mercy another ma paRente time. And confcioulnefie of their own corruptions 41 make r'ddere par eft. them compatfionate towards others in this kinde. The Greek H'r. word,thatfignifieth tocenfure, fignifietl St Paul,( in the firft place, Agyru arauo, to be idle. Whereunto agreeth that of , ¡peaking of wan- p,.oprié , rguo, tonwiddows,) they learn tobe idle, Wandring about from houfe poft, reproh:n- to houfe : andnot onely idle, hat tattlers alfa and bufy- bodies, do. Becman. ¡freaking of things that they ought not. Thole that travel not r Ttn1.5.1i.. with their own hearts, have both leafure and lift to be medling With others. Verfe4. Or how -milt thoufay to thybrother &c. ] How im. pudentare hypocritical' finde- faults, that can fay fuch things to o- thers, when thetnfelves arealoft obnQxius ? whence is this, but ei- ther from a fecret defire of purchafing an opinionof freedome from the faults they fo boldly cenfure in others, or that they may thereby the fooner in¡inuate and ingratiate with them they deal with? The Vulgar Tranflation reads here Frater fine, &c. Bra- Frater, quafc ther, let me pull out the mote tart is in thine eye, &c. 13àrning f re alter. lips and a wicked heart, are likea potfheard covered with filver c.a`, lius drofle. When he fpeaketh fair, believe himnot for there are fe- Cap '°. ven abhominations in his heart 1 but there lyes a great beamofhy- Pio.1.6,A3,zp. S 2 pbcrily
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