300 A Commentary upon the Gold Chap.g. iih lepers. Hence that fable in Tacitue, that the Ifraelites were Turk. 1ij1' driven out of Egypt for that lothfoine difeafe. This, Paid one Malevolent Heathen, is the caufewhy they tell everyfeventh day. Badinue obferves it for a ipeciall providence ofGod, that in t Sunatrâ Dei rabic (which bordereth upon yudea,) there are no (wine to be benitate id fa- found, left that malt leprous creature, faith he, fhould more and aum epl, ne more infest and infea that people, who arc naturally fubjea to populos ad tr. the leprofy. And another good Authourisofopinion, that God pramproctiver, did therefore forbid the few to eat either fwines-fle(h, or hares- aninot lepro_ fioixtu a mogio, flesh : gs2j,d iffacarofacilè in malè afjeEtis corporihus putrefèat, be- ac ntagio in;e- caufe in difeafed bodies it easily corrupts and turns to ill hu.. Ita et. Jq. rhe moms. ßo írhea. eslndworjhippedhim.] Whichhe would hardly everhave done Nat. p.15a Imply, had he not been a leper. Difeaics, faith S. eflm6rofe, tide Jo. Mml. tos.tiom, 169, are the (hopof vertucs. King e..eflfred found himfelf'ever belt, Mo:bi font vír. when he was worfl : and therefore pried God, to fend him al- tutum e,¿zcina, waies focne ficknefle: geheziesleprofy cured him, his white fore- Ambre head made him a white foul. If thouwilt, thoucanft, &c.] So Another came with, If thou twit doe Any thing, help 0.1: We never doubt of Chrias will to D. Pre,1on, doe us good, (faith a great Divine) but, in force degree, we doubt alfo ofhis power. True faith doubts of neither : but be- lieves against fenfe in things invifible, and against reafonin things , incredible. Senfecorreas imagination, Reafon correas fed; but Faith correas both. Verse 3, p ndf efus put forth his band, &c.] The law forbad contaEIum contagionis, nonfanationid. The high-Prieft might en- . Hebe4,I g. ter a leprous houfe, &c. We have not an high. Prie(t that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Better might he fay, then S. C3prian, Cumfingulis peElus memo comb, meroris & funerispondera lulbmofaparticipo, cuoio plangentih.ts plango,cutn de- tCor, Ir.a . flentibut dcfieo,&c. Then S. Parts, Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is áf i55led, and Thorn not ? It was held a great ccndefçenti- on in King Alphovfiu, to nfe his skill for the recovery of Dne of his lick Subjeas : Vhat was it here inChri(t,'the King of Kings, andLordofLords Verfeq.. See thou tea no man.] Chrift defçif d popular ap- jlaufe, accounting it noother then a little[linking breath. Some doeall for name : But we ha .-enot iò learned Chrilf. His tree.- fares viere hid, Col. 2.3. He fought not himfelf, but tofet up him Show that font him, 9oh.ß.5o.
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