;6o /Qnsós utefull oppn(ed to vo'HQispain- toil, tedious, A Commentary upon theGoiel Chap.' le Verfe 3o. For my yoak ù cafe] After a man is once ufed to it a little : hecannot fadge fo well with it perhaps at firft, becaule an untamed heifer a but after it while, his commandments will be nothing grievous, I delight to do thy Will O God, faith Da- vtd. Andmy b;'rden light] Such as you may as eafily bear away asSampfon did the gates of Gaza ; such as you may well run un- der,as a RorieBoth without a load, or a hinde upon the mountains. It is nomore burden then thewings are to the bird, wherewith it flies aloft where it lifteth. CHAP. XII. Verfe i. 7efus Went on theSabbath day ] At/ T. SAint Luke calleth it the fecond Sabbath after thefirth, chap. 6.1. that is the fecond Anniverfary or folemn-fealt, from the firft, to wit from the Paffeover- Sabbath and this was Pente- .coft. Andhis Difciples Were an hungred ] Hereby' he hardened and inured them to further and future trial's : teaching them alto to depend upon Gods good providence for their neceflary mainte- Ef. and Mov, nance. The Martyrshad their bread made ofmeal half mixt with faw-duft. Topluckthe ears ofcorn and to eat] This was their belt Sab- bath-dayes dinner : May not we begladof mean fare on any day, whenour betters fared nobetter on fo high a dhy ? See mycom- tnon -placeof Abitinence. Verfe a. Behold, thy Difciples do that Which is not lawfull ] This was as the proverb is, Sau Minervam, when blindePharr- fees will be teachingChrift, how the Sabbath is to be fanftified. Not Hebrews only, but alto Greek and Barbarians relied from workon the feventia days : witne (re Iofeplus, Clemens Alrxand. and Etefebiam. Howbeit, to the Hebrews at mount Sina,God for a fpeciall favour, made known his holy Sabbath, Nebem.9. r4. Dip commanding ehem to do no (ern ie work therein, Lev.23.7 8. R ,aorr goat, This excludes not Works of Piety, Charity, and Necefiìty, luch co dins b'49J as was thisof the DifcipLs in the text. The Iews in their fupertti- modi re.írjJfent ) fight Sabbath, ertu- Lion would not on the and therrrfore loft their cheif pnr tffi;ne eiey: City to the Romanes, under the command of Pompey, who took the
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