Chapar. aecorditzgto StMA T T Y3 & V. 357 plagues front a fin-revenging God. Verfè 24. It fhaa be more tolerable] infidelity then is,in tome refpeft, a worfe fin then Sodomy, and a heavier doom abides it. They that fuffer leaff in hell, fuffer more then they can either abide or avoid. All they fuffer here, is but typical! of the wrath to come. Here the leaves only fall upon them,as it were, but there the whole trees too. Here they tipof the top of Gods cup, there theymuff drink the dregs,though it be eternity to the bottom. Howbeit So- dom ferall fuffer lefle then Capernaum, naitiús punietur Cicero goamCatilina, faith an Ancient, non quad bonus,fed quad minios malus. The beafc and the falfe Prophet were cafi alive into the burning lake ( which imports a mofi direful! and dreadful! degree oftorment) when the reft of the Antichriflian rabble (hall be firft Thin with the (word ( not cafi in alive) and then thrown to thein- fernall vultures,to be torn in pieces as aprey.Rév. 19.20.21. Verfe25. eXt that time fefus anfrvered] Here to anfwer, is. to continue to (peak. Albeit ifwe compare herewith, Late,10.2I. it may teem tobe fpoken in anfwer to the feventy Difciples now returning, and relating what they had laid and done in their voy- age. Latins effquoties magno fibiconflat honeflum. Verfe 26. Even fofather, for fd, &c.] Chrifi being tired out as it were by the untraiableneffe of his hearers, turnes him tohis Father and comforts himfelfwith the confideration of his moil wifedecree and counfell. So muff we in like cafe : accounting that we are a fweet favour unto God howfoever, even in them that 'perifh, and that God Thal! have his endupon thetn,thougli wehave not ours. Verle 27. All things are delivered unto me] This the worlds wizzards acknowledge toot; hence they Rand off. But Chritt is the Fathers Plenipotenti.try and PrivyCounfillour, unto all that are:calledboth 7ervs and Greeks, Chrifl the power o{ God, and the wifedcme of God, as light as the world makes ofhim. But the ri ore men fee intohis worth,the more they wall repair tohim. Andhe to Whomfoever the SonWill reveal him ]i nm habet Ciorr f um in horofcop.o, non habet Dcumin medio call. Verle 28. Comeunto me] Why do yego about, as7eremyhath it, and fetch a compafïe? Why labour ye for that which fatisfieth not, ifa.5 3.3 ? Can the forme of lefe give you vineyards and olive- yards, etc. as Sanl ¡aid ? fo fay I, Can the world or the devil do for youas I can Why comeyenot unto me thatye may be Pa C.aa ved? Diriffinum tx- itij genus. Fa. seats. Lucen. zçor.t. ts,. Oat.t.t4.: Ier. ;Li a3:
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