356 Commentary upon the Go[ el Chapar. Ideò detertore_ Verte z2. It jhafl be more tolerable] Men are 'therefore the Çu%a rte- worfe,becaufe they ought to be better : and fhall bedeeper in hell, Pores effe debe' betaute heaven was offered unto them, but they would not. .In- muia.S'iv.,au. gertia benefacia, ngitia, fr pplicia, fay the Centurifts. Good turns aggravateunkindneffes : and mens offences are increafedby their obligations. If Turk! andTartars (hall be damned, de- bauchedChriftians (hall be double -damned : becaufe,though they . défie not, yet they deny the Lord that bought them ; whileft by their unchriftian converfation they tell the world, that either there is no fuch thingas Chrift, or if therebe, yet that he is but a weakChrift, and that there isno fuch power in his death, or effica- cy in his refurre6tion to fanftifie thofe thatbelong untohim. Verfe 2.3. which art exaltedunto heaven] viz. In the aburl- dance of the means ofgrace, many times called the Kingdom of heaven : for as the harveft ispotentially in the feed, fo is eternal! life potentially in the ordinances. God fends up anddown the world tooffer falvation. Hence thatphrafe, My alvat ion isgone forth : Hence, they that rejeft the word preached, are Paid to judge themfelves unworthy ofeverla4ing life,Ae`ts 13.46. Hence, while lfrael was without a teaching PrieR, they are laid to have been Without the true God, a Chron.15.3. Hence the Pfalmift makes the bluff-logs that come out ofSion,to be better then any other that come out of heaven andearth,Pf4l.134. 3. Shalt be brought down to hell ] With a violence, with aven- geance. M Abafhuerojh faid of Haman, that fo much abufed his favour, Hang him on the gallows that is 5o cubits high : fohall God fay of fuch : Plunge them into hell much deeper thenothers, that whiles theywere onearth, fet fo light by my grace, though it even kneeled unto them,wooing acceptance, z Cor.5.2 o, Ir Would have remained untill this day.] Bur God rained down hell from heaven upon them, and turned them into afhes faithPe- 'et.z.6 ;- rer,yea their fire burnt to hell faith lode. Some footfteps of it are yet 7e tobe found in the place,_ as lofephus relateth..: and fomething De belt alto may be read of it inTacitus and Soli nest Both S. Peter and S. lade íay,rhey werefet forth for an example._ e/Jlterit55 porditio rr-Y ^)-JV t ua fir caw io. Let their def±ruction beour inch uiftion left bea- r then ilerodortu rite up in judgement againft us, who (aid, that the. w } : E1,77 coals and afhes ofTroy burnt by the Gree(, werepurpcteiy. fet Ttt Ce` '' `' c eyes of men,, for an example of this rule, that Na- cre ; rzJ f're the y e P, t,io.od and notorious fins, bring down n4tionall and nou plagues
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