2 9z A Commentaryupon theGo el Chap.7. aftive, thebelt good a slicer aft. And the more good wedo, the mote Godlike and excellent we be, and the better provided a- gainft arainy diy. Ephef 1.1o. Whichbuilt his houre open a rock] This rock is C hri(t ; and + P: r.z,s, confcionable hearers are livingHonesbuilt uponhim. The Conies ?cov,3o a.6. are apeople weakand wile , faith Solomon ; and their wifdome herein appears; theywork themfelves holes and burrows in the Luke 6.48. bofomeofthe earth, in the roots of the rocks. Learn we to do Exoriwuur, fed thehke : and be Pure to dig deep enough ( as, S. Lulee bath it) "ant"' which while the ftony- ground- heaters did not, their blade was fcorcht up, and came to nothing. Sorne flalhìng joy they had, upon the hearing ofthe Word, and many melting.s ( according to the natureofthe Do rine delivered) but tilde Caddell affefti- ons, being not well bottomed , nor having principles to main- tain them, they were but like Conduits running with wine at the Coronation, or like a land. floud, that kerns tobe a great fa, but is fodn gone again. treat e fluEfum Verfe a e rrd the rain de,cended, and the {loads came, &c. j trtd t. r J" n66-,,, Many are the troubles of the righteous : they cornecommoniy e vov pigH. thick and three-fold, one in theneckofanother, as fobs meffen_ ---delay vo- gers. The clouds return after the rain, Ecclef, t 2. z, there is a !septets continualt fucceffion ofmiferies and moleftations, from the devil, in vice's vale the world and the fleth, to them that hear and do the words of brcviar pro Seta, Chria ; like the weather in winter, whena fhowr or two donot Calanitaa eft clear the air, but though it rainmuch, yet the sky is Gill over-caft propaiè calama- with clouds, which are diflolved upon the Saints, finetimes in ru a c,ara,ninuto Iefferand lighter crofts, as the fmaller rain, fometimes in prefling :e s and piercing calamities, like Goren and hail : The rain fats the t ,pe(tare. Sic P + clades dreebal fl`:uds rift, the winde blows, and many a (harp fhowr bears upon tarftrcu±o,um the Chriftians building ; but likeNoah: Ark, it is pitcht within delrtlia:flragcs and without : like Mount Sion, it abides for ever immoveable,be-. rì/lratia.arbore- caufefunded upon the Kackofages. Sinos ruemae , ruet Chráifi s . bas Bccnar° sou, Ille reg'eater mundi faid thatnoble Lusher. 1fwe fail Chrift Etieffo rust: (hall fall too, that Ruler of the world : and let him fall e I had ra. Ma'o ego cum trier fill with Chrift, then t§and with Ca/qr. The devil airs up a ebri,?oruere, ternpeft a aloft Gods children, faith ,4mbrafe, Sedipfenauflaaium pan lauaecæ - facit but himnfclf rnaketh (hipwrack. The Church, according fare flare Ep g. , d:dielch. to that Venetian Motto. Necfudu, neeflatn movetter : and yet Ve- i urronofMe., nicebath but one Greet (they fay) that is not daily over-flowed hu4trcty. by the f a, ded
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