o8 LI Con erttdry upoxr tht.Go/J el Chap -.8 to fall from the Court to thecart, from a Pallace to agallows. Among all the Prophets, Ez.ekel is molt frequently ftiled fon of man, and that purpofely; to keep him low amid(t his many rare raptures and revelations. The Heathen,when they would (et forth; a man miferable indeed, they called him 7rroaíe9Qre70vr thrice a ratan. Verfe ax. Lord, fufer ravefrrfl togo anel bury_] Old mens fear is ( faithPlutarch, and that makes them fo gripple) that they (hall not have 9y.4ovvxs xxè 9w or uc, thofe that will be carefull to nouri(h them whilesalive, and tobury thetas decently when they are dead. Verfe 2,2. Followme] Let go things leffeneceffary, and minde the main : thy task is long, thy time is fhort ; opportunities are headlong, and mutt be quickly caught, as the Eccbo catcheth the voice: there's no ufe of after-wit. p VI, meth. Praci itattempus ,morsatrainspendetagenti. Let the dead bury their dead] The dead infm, their dead in nature. Ungodly men areno better then breathing ghofls, walk- ing (epulchres ofthemfelves. Their bodies are but living coffins, to carry a dead foul upand down in. The Saints only are heirs of life, I Pet.3.7. and all others are dead, (lark dead in ßns and tre frafes, as the wanton widdow, r Tim.S . as Terence faith the zer. irr inecyr4. fame : Sane berclé homo volxptati obfeictens fuit dam vixit> And of fuch dead corpfes (asonce-in Egype,Exod.1 2.30.) there is no houfe,whereìn there is not one,nay many. Verfe 23. And When he VP as entred,&c.] Himfelf was fir(l in. the Ihip where theywere to fuffer. Like a good Ihepheard,he goes before his fheep, loh. i o. Like a goodCaptain, he goes before hia Princeps prie, fouldiers ; and as itwas faid of Hannibal, that he firft encred the t=amfn: bat, st- field, and laft went out of the field, fo is it with Chrift the Ca- rimas conferro pain fourfalvation. Fear not (faithhe) for lans.mit.b thee:. præero , exce- be not afraid,for Iam thy God. Tua caufa erit mea caufa, as that debt. Liv.De. cod. s sib. r. Emperour told JuliusJ P`lu sus who had been much wronged by .ß a.4 s, Io, the DukeofSaxony,in the Emperours employment, Verfe 24. And behold there arofe a great tempef$ ] Stirred up, likely, by the devil, todrown Chrift ( that male-chrldeofthe Church, Rev. i a.5.) and his Difcìples ; as he brained lobs chil- dren with the fall ofthehoufe. This is (till the indeavour of Satan andhis inftrumentt ; but to Inch we tray ás PopeFias 2, wrote t® the great Turk., .N.iteráe
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