24 c.1 Commentary upon the G*I Chap.2. li l e Church ) fand in the way, that pilgrims muffgo by, thorow this Worldto Bethlehem, the houfe of faturity and plentifufne(fe; and is an impediment to all Chriflian travellers. Yea, andexcept the more grace of Godbe, will keep the pilgrims ,{fill in her, that they 'hall not come where Chrire is adored. And to fray them in- deed,they take away the Star cflight. viz. the t*rordofGod, that it cannot befen, ouyenmay read that other Star was hid from the Wife men, while they askedof the Pharifees at Jerufalem, where Chriff was born. Tonmay fee what great dangers hapned to theft wire men, whiles they were a learningofliars, where was Chriff : firft,tLey were ont of their way,and next,they loFf their guide, d-c. Ftarcbas Verle I t. Lnd when they were come into the houfe ] Not a rue lb/eior. Palace prepared for the purpole, as the Porphyrogeniti in Conffan- Jultur ,vtarryr tinople had, but in an Inne was thrift born, as ready to receive all cornea anTrhih that come unto him, and in a hole of the earth, anunder- ground ref s t. EuCeh. den,as Iuffin Martyr,Epiph>znius, Eufebius and Origen w,tneffe. de dery Euan. In hoc terraforamine ( faith Sr Hierem, ad Marcill. tom. I.) Orig. l:b. r calorum conditor natos eft, hic involutue pannis, hic virtu a pa- caattoCelium. ioribus, hicadoratusamagi, hiccircumcifeu, &c. In this cell or hole was the worlds Creatour born, fwathed, vifîced, adored,cir- cumci'ed. They faw theyoung childe] For this Ancient ofdaies, by joyn- ing his Mildly to our vilenes, his power to our weakneffy fu- fpended and laid afide his own glory, wherewith he was glorified with the Father before the world began, and voluntarily abated himfèlf to the fhape and (late of a poor, feeble,helpleffe infant, that Ephet 4. wemight come to the fullnefeofthe age in Chrift. with Mary his Mother] Without any other affìftance or at- tendance. lofephhaply was at work, or otherwife abfènt, left the wife men (hould miflake him for the true father of the childe. And when they hadopened their treafures, they prefentedunto himgifts] No great matters to make him rich : for then, what needed the holy Virgin, at her Purification, to have offered two young Pigeons, as a token of her penury, that could not reach to a Lamb ? Yet fotnething it was ; gold, frankkincenfe and myrrhe, (tent them inby-a fpeciall providence of God)tohelpe to bear their charges into Egypt,whither they were now to flee. Gold,frankincenfe and myrrhe ], Theb:ft commodities of their countrey,doubdefe : thereby (as by a Pepper-corn, in way ofho- mage or chiefrent) they acknowledged Chrill to be the true Proprietary
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