Etrap.8. afcarding to St M A T T ü>t Ti. 301 Show thyflfto the Priefi] That they may fee that I am He *at fhould come, that Iedovah the Phyfitian,, that Son of right:_ oufnefewith healthunder his wings, &C. that I came not to dettroy the Law, as they flanderoufly giveout, but to fulfill it, that God nay be glorified, and the mouthofmalicc flopped. Offer thelift; &c.] This is-that pepper-corn we pay to God, who is content that we have the benefit of his favours., fo He mayhave the gloryofthem. Not lepers oncly, but all forts, af- ter fickneffe, were bound to offer to God the ranfom of their lives, Exod.3 t, Flezekah made a long, and left it to polterity, fora Peal ofhis thankfulneffe. Heathens in thiscafe, wouldcon- fccratefomethtng to their gods, to their Teraphim. The very word in Greek that lignifies to heal, (framed from Teraphim) l gnifies firfl to worfhip and fernGod : So (hewing us what they e'?"';"e, were wont to doe in cafe of cure. But now-adaies fciopato it morbo, fraudatoil Santo, as the Italian proverb hath it. Sick men recovered, deal as Chip- wrackt men cfcaped : they promife God, ashe in 6rafmus his Naufragium didthe Virgin, a pifture Era( Colo/. of wax as big as S. Chriftopher : but when he came to fhoce, wouldnot give a tallow-candle. This isa curled kinde of cou- fenage, :Mal. r.14. Vertex. There came unto him a Centurion.] Rarior eft virtu, veniens, e corpore raro. Souldiers are commonly fierce and god- left': creatures. But this noble Centurion might well have made a Commander In that Thundering Legion, and might well have K,,,NÖAOS. had his hand in that Viacria Halelniatica (as it was called) obtain- ed by the Orthodox Brittans, againft the Pelagian Pitts and D. V flier de,3 Saxonshere, Pic`toriâfide obtentâ nonviribue, as the ftory tells us ; Britan .Eccles. a viliory got by faith, and not by force. pranerdp,33:. Verle 6. Lord,yfervant (yeti) at home, &c.] Not thrown cut ofdoors, not cast tick intoa corner, tofink or fwim, for any care his matter would take of him : No, not left to be curedat hisown charges. Thegood Centurion was not a better.man then a ma- fter. Sowas that renownedSr Thomat Lucy late of charfeeott in Abhors funeral Wartnickihire; to whofe fingular commendation it was in mine by tit. Harris, hearing preached at his Funeral, and is now fine publifhed, by Cu brand, inns my muchhonoured friend, Mr Robert Harris, that (amongmany é mire atom others that would dearly miffs him) dkcnfefufl offirvantshad loft Front," ro t: fe pens. not a /Wafter, but a Pbyfitian,&eomade theirfck,nef fehid, andhis colt 1'um, fed pe- andphyfacktheirt. Or (as mine e4tlter. Ego, mine intirebeloved tlur rritiur art. X kirfman,
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