352 v4 Commentary upon the Go(jel Chap, i ro end Ike violent, &c.] The valiant, ¡fay calleth than, that breakthorraw all difficulties, as did Davids Worthies ; and walk about the world as fo many Conquerours : yea more then Con- querours they are, Rom.2.37. and what can that be but Triumph- ers ? 2 Cor. 2:14. Take it byforce] Make a prey pra:prize ofit. Diripiunt as Hi- lary rendreth it, rriaking it a metaphor; from a tower or town fac.kt and ranfaekt by the enemy. Cyprus is an I (land fo fruitful!" and pleafant, that wasanciently called Macaria, that is blef- tykes famefa fed. Andof.it Sextus Rufus writeth, that being famous for ri di u js pauper- ches, it thereby follicited the poverty of the people of Rome, to rarem5populi fife up®nit. This ar,y be more fitly faid ofheaven, that habi- ito,,:. ut ouu- bitationof the happy ones, fo eagerly and carnally fought for patella, Jollici- b the Saints, that nothing else will fatisfy them. Valdè prote- rwit. flatusfaimme noIleficaDeofatiari, faid.Luther, w lien great gifts were fent unto him, and a Cardinalfhip offered him by the Pope God, he laid, should not put him off with thole petty ,things, hebreathed after better. Heaven is had by the violent, earth in- herited by thole that are meek,Matth.g.6. Wheré, thoughGod would have his fervants content with the leaft mercies, (as being 1. fre then the very leafs) yetnot fatisfcd with the greatest things in the world for their. portion, Pith they are born to better. If theybe, as molt are, flothfull in feeking to pofl`ffe thernfelves ofHeaven :.He chides them, as dofbuah did the feven tribes, for: their negligence, Verfc /3. For all the Prophets and the Lair,&c.] i.e. The Mi- nifteryof theProphets, and the shadows of the Law, deter mined in Johns preaching. As for the f,bftanceof the Law, Chilli carne not to destroy,, but fulfill it, Matth, S.17, 18. Sec the notes.: thereon. Veil: 14. Thinis elia'.] Not the Thisbite, but yet the fame that Malachy foretold should come in the fj?irit and paver of E 1¿mss. And furcly, if we obferve it, (as here C,hrift Luth to the. Jews, ifye will receive it) there is a wonderful' agreement be- tween the times ofElias_ and 144 Raptiff, between Ahab and H,rcd, between 7exebel and Herodias, &c. The Iems alfo have a laying amongfi them at this day, when they arc puzzled in any ppint,Elias cum venerir, folvet omnia. Verfe 15. He that hath ears tohear, let himhear] Let him at- tentively 'Alen, not with that outward car,onely, that grirîle that growes,
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