316 Cténtary pon the Geld Verfe 7, Andhe arofeandde arted. for he washealed on both fides Mal]nroWe did ashe was bidden.. erre, faid Lather. 9aà>x+miracnjafa, Verfe $. They marvelled andglorified Gad.] When theproud sus nfaxirxs Pharifees blafphemed and werehardened ; and fo voided the comm. damns 13!2,. frlofgodagainn themfelvu * La , k7 o, lar difàdvantage, 3 ) or to their own fingu. Verfe 9. A man named Matthew.] The other Evangelil}s call him Levi; fo {}crowding his fhame under a name leffe known. He dfil.yr,r. at,aandthe atú n ure soff lets nceo(likeasDaziddot common in a white 'beet, as it were) which is an evident ar uh penance ofthe Scriptures Divinity, and ofthe EvangeliasgraciousGmpi qty. Ifany fhould upbraid him with his old evil courfes, he could readily have anfwered, as fluffin did in like cafe, a tu re. prehendie ego damnavi : or asBeta, Hiehome invidet mihigratia, , Chrifji. Sittingat the receipt ofcu om ] There Publicans rented the revenue of the fea and rivers, oftne'Romans (as now the ofthe Turks) at a certain rate. And that they Jewsdo rent, and pick a living out of it, they were great gripers, pay ex. ac`fed cxtreamly upon theJews; who therefore hated them, held them furthef} offfrom heaven ofany men. A faithfuI!Pub lican was fo rare at Rome it fel , that one Sabmeee, for his honet} xgusç managing of that office, in an honourable remembrance thereof, wzcv_ Suet' ", had certain images erected with this fuperfcr;ption,For the honeß rn Verpaf. Publican. Of this fort offjnnois was Matthew, converted into an Evangel;fl ; whom Chin toan Apollle; 7uft'in the Philofophe ri did a Martyr ; rCecutenr in- Rhetorician, and (as fume think) the Magicia intorarfamous light of the Church. I was an obifinate Papi(} (faith Lati- R .arad MoP; meY) as any was in England : Infomuch, that when I fhould be made BacheJlcur0f Divinity, my whole Oration went againif PhilpMetanfhon, and his opinions, &c. Andhe arofeandfollowed him.] 7n/ien the Apoflate cavils at tfe this pafhge4 as ifeither this werefade, or Matthew a fool to fol- ronyar, low a fdranger at the fira cal?. But this Ath: ifknew not the work offaith, nor the power ofChriftsvoicr, when he cal$ ea- e¿}ually. If aldaris theblinde B ifhop of'Bithynia had been by, tohave heard this dead dog thus barking, he would furely have fhaped him filch an Chap,9;
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