Chap.9'. according to StM A T T H E vv. 3I them. Scribonim4 writes ofthe Cedar, 6),uodviventts res putrefa_. tit &perdit : putrid& autos"reftitnit &canfervat SoChrilt came Ply at.lib.t. tokill the quick, and toquicken thedead. Butfanners to repentance.] Not to liberty, but duty. Tertdtl- Terr,deenit. Tianfpeaketh ofhimfelf, that he wasborn tonothing but repent- ance. This is not the work of one but of all or dales, as they laid, Ezra 10.13. Some report of(Mary Magdalen that after ourSaviours refurreêiion, the fpent thirty years in Çef1ia Nar6o Adeò ur etiam nenfi, inweeping for her fins : Andof S. Teter, that he alwaies lachrry cutem had his eyes fullof tears, infomuchas hisface was furrowed with gensrura exede- continual! weeping. Let not him that refolves upon Chriflianity tint, dreamofa delicacy. Verfe 14. Then came to him the Difsiples ofyobs.] Theft ti- ded with the Pharifees agaitaft our Saviour out of emulation and felf -love, the bane andbreak -neckofalltrue love : yea they were fiat in the quarrel. A dolefiill thing, when brethren ih;lí let a- gainft brethren, Hebrews vexone another, Exod.z. and Chrilti- ans as if they wanted enemies, Hie in the faces one ofanother. S.Baf1 was held an heretike , even of them that held thefams things as he did, and whom hehonoured as brethren : all the fault was, that heout- tlsotae them, and they envied him the praife he had foroppofingArrianifine,which was fuch, asthat Philoftorgites the eA'rriin wrote,that all the other Orthodox Divines were but babies toBafal. How hot was the contention betwixt Luther and Caro1oftwelitu, snarly out ofa feltfeeking humour, and defire ofpreheminency ? How extream violent are the Lutherans again( the Calvinifls. In the year, rs 67. they joyned themfelvcs at 4'ntwerp with the Papifls againft the Calvinifts. And Luther fornewhereprofeffeth, that he will rather yeeld to Tranfubitanti- ation, then remit any thingof Confubltantiation. Why doeU'eand rheTharifeesfall often.] The Pharifees were perilous falters, when they devouredwidows hoefes, and fwal- lowed il-gottengoods, as Gnats down their wide gullets, which therefore Chrift cals, ¢vuvztt, the inwards. Their fails were meer mockfaits: fowere thofeof}ohn Arch-bilhop of Confan- tinople, fir-named the Fatter, who yet was the firft that affeaed the title of Univerfall Bishop, fo much cried down by Gregor' the great. Thefe Pharifeeshad Tidedwith, and feat on 7010,:s Dif ciples in their mailers abfence, like as the renegado J frite, to keep up that bitter contention, that is between the Ca.'vinifts Y 2 and
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