260 Li/ Commentary upon the Gopel Chap.. pocrify between him and himfelf, that he cannot difcern them. R"m.i 6.1g. Thefe are they, that by good words and fair fpeeches deceive the Pertinax Imp, hearts ofthePimple, as the ferpent did Eve. You would think, vutgo di" el' by their fmoothing, foothing hony-Words, they were wholly fet ta on feekin your good : when they meerly fervenot the Lord guobtanus p g Y g 9 Y je- rifèt w06 fus Chrift, but their ownbellies, as thofe Popifh fiefh-flies. Faith- quam benig- f1411 are the 1V614nds ofa friend, ( fair they are and pleafant, faith atus. Aurel. the Chaldee here ) btat the kips of an enemy are deceitfull, as ay.ó, vigor, were thofe ofIoab to Amsfa, and hadas to Chrift. Ka7agat,v non Pzov. eft paz.c+ "r,faith philo. Love is not alWaíes in a kill there are that kiffe and kill. Davidwould not tafte of their dainties, nor endure . that thty fhould pouer upon him the fweereft oyntments ( as at faits it was the cuflome among that people, Luke7.46.) Indted if the righteous (mite him, he would take it for a fingular curtefy. rLa1,t414,s. Let him reprove me, faith he, it fhalibe an excellent oyle, and (hall foak into me, as f oft oyle doth into wooden veffels. It (hall not break my head; my heart it may ; and fomake way for the oyleof Gods grace which is not poured, fave onely into broken veflèls : for indeed whole veflè"s are full veffels, and fo this preci- ous.l quor would runover, andbe fpilt on the ground, as Ternaroi hath ir. áíypocririr ni- Veife 5. Thou hypocrite a This is a dull generation, andmuff bit¡rupiius. be rebuked fharply or cuttingly, that they may be fourad- in the Tu. r. faith. And Minifters, by our Saviours example here, muff learn, fo ti.7070 /210t. to innmet, as to fh arpen and fet an edge upon theword, ío as it Z etoph a chi- may more the crully confciences of their hearers with fmarting rrrgia, goof m,krecord r pain, that they may hear and fear, and God may heal them, effe ran ope.'- Matth. r 3.1 5. Chrift turnes himfelfhere to fuch, and bitterly in- att. Celfas. veighs againft them, as elfewhere likewife he doth, but efpecially., Muth. 17. ay chap. z3. ofthe Gofpel, dragging them down to heil by a chainof c : °7° & eight feverall woes,as Pia many links, and doling up all with that d; . ss.E.S' terrible thunderbolt, ye ferpents, ye generation of vipers, Iòw t 5. can yeejcape the dzmnataoncf hell? verfe33.. and all to fhew us, how fuck kinde of perlons fhould be handled. As for thofe that are foproud and pallionate, that none dare declare their way to their face, God will lay them in the flirny valleyes where are ma- ny already like them, and more [hall come after them where- rab z r hence elfo they fhall be brought forth to the day of wrath, and, 3,39 t a,;;, will theybill they, here IteMaledilli, go ye turfed, &c. The.rs hypocrite, frft calk wet the beam, &C.] StTarriestelleth ns,
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