Chap.! z. aavordin3 t® St M a r r H H VT. 355 prepoteroufly patlè fentenee upon their mother,whom they fhould rathervail to,and vote for. Verfe 20. Then began he to upbraid] Haply, becaufe three Cities,drawn by the authorityof the Pharitees, made leffeaccount ofour Saviours doetrineor miracles,by themmaliciously depraved and difparaged. The blinde led the blinde, but both fell into the dicch,though their leaders lay undermoft. Becsufe they repented not.] There is a heart that cannot re- pent ; that bath loft allpatlive power of coming out ofthe thaw Rom.zr of the devil ; that is become loch, through long trading in fin, as neither minifl ry, nor mifery, nor miracle, nor mercy can poilibly mollifie. Upon fiachyou may write, Lordhavemercy upon them. O, Paid a reverendman, If I mutt be put tomyoption,I had rather be in hell with a fenfible heart, then live onearth with a reprobate minde. Verfe at. Wo two thee Chorazin ] There littorals, or thofe that dwell by the fea-coaft, are noted tobe dori, horridi,immanes, Twin= cnm.'rfe omniumden( pefmi, rough, haríh, theevifh, peevith people,and reb. Bri1zza, as bad as thole that are worft. But that which aggravated thee mens fin, and made it cut of meafare finfull, was the contempt of the Gofpel a which, as it is pelt nau f agiatm tabula, fo hovefball ¡u¡ zuraTi. they efcape thatnegleal fo great ; alvatiou ? See that ye ;[T ift not oz» Offhim that fpeakech fromheaven, &c. Hierom tells us,that Cho- ti,.14s:. razin was in his time turned into adefers, being twomiles ditiant from Capernaum. As for Bethrida, cur Saviour had therehence taken three ofhis Apotties atleaft, tobe lights of the world, but the inhabitants of this Town, loved darkneffe rather then light ; theAIodes their countrymen coulddoeno good upon them. Our Saviour therefore would not fuffer fo much as the blinde man whom be had cured to be their Preacher, but led him to the Townes end,and there reftoring him to fight,tenthim away. They Wouldhaverepented longago] Blinde heathens, when any mitery was upon them, would to their fackcloth and sorrows, thinking thereby topacifie God, and fo they retied. In like Corr, thereare amangit us,that,when they areaffhfted,efpecially in con- fcience, fet upon forceduty, fo to lick themfeives whole again, /r.58 5. They do as crows, that when they arefick give them- felves a vomir, by fwallowingdown fame (tone, and then they are well.They rcft in their repentance; HenceAuffin faitb,Repenrance domneth more thenfin. A a it Verfe
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