268 ,rl Commentary upon the Go(pel Chapa, did ; holds them to hard meat ( fome of the Martyrs were fed Ez.k 4.15. withbread made, moll part, of faw-dull, and Ezekiel withbread prepared with cow- dung) He chafleneth them alfo, other-whiles, not only with the rods of men, but with the fevere difcipline of _ícotpions : and this feemeth nor, for the prelenr, tobe joyous but ,grievoua : hievertheleffe,afterward it yeeldeth thepeaceable fruits Ueb, t 2.71. of righteoufneffe, to them that are thereby exercirèd. They (hall fit down withAbrahram, yea in Abrahamsbofo+.ne (as they ufed to lean at feafis ) in the Kingdom ofheaven : and (hall have ( not Matth.8. t a. a Benjamin: turtleonly,but) a royal' diet as leconiahhad, every I"r's x. 34. day a portion. Then (hall the Lord (land forth, and fay to thole menof his hand, who had theirportionhere, and Whole bellies he Fled with his hidtreat re. (The Inne-keepergives thebell bits to his guefls,but referves the patrimony for his children) Behold my fervants ¡hall eat,but ye (ball be hungry ,&c. Ifa.65.I3. xxroi uáv üe. Verfe I I. Ifye then being evil Even ye my Difciples alto: c )41.X01 J For by nature there is never a better ofus. But as the hihorian xxì''t s faid, that there were many Mair j in one C.z ir, fo there aremany Never a bar- Cain: and 7ud.affes in the bell of us all. Homo eft inverfue deca- rui better .her- r,,, iogus,faith one : wholeevil is innian, and whole man in evil ; yea The elect ere. in thedevil, whole works (even in the bell of his Saints) Chrifl tkurr before came todeftroy ; to difíolve the old frame, and to drive out the convection Prince of darknefle, who bath there entrencht himfel. Andal- ltbeaüs, e. though finne in the Saints bath received its deaths- wound, yet are a Id plat be there [till in the befl,continuall flirrings,and fpruntings thereof (as th rply zebu- in dying creatures it ufeth to be) which (without Gods greater ked that they grace, and The countermotion of the holy Spirit within them ) rn.iy he lour:d would certainly produce moil fhamefull evils. This put S. Paul :r the caul'' to that pittifull outcry,Ilom.7.24. and wiade him exhort Timo. 'r it c.a :. th (though he were a youngelan rarely mortified to exhort camí7yvt+u y ( Y Y ) s. theyounger Womenwith all parenfp, or chaftity; intimating,that, thorough the corruptionof his nature, even whit fl hewas exhort- ing them to chaftity, fome unchaft motions might heal upon him unawares. A tree may have witheredbranches,by reafon offome deadly blow given to the root, and yet there may remain fome fàpwithin,which will bud and bloflòrrìe forth again. Or,as if fome wilde fig tree,faith a Father, teat grows in the walls of agoodly building, and hides the beauty of it, theboughs andbranches may becut or broken of, but the root,which is wrapped into thehones of the building, cannot be taken away, till the walls be thrown down
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