Chap.'2. accar6dingto St 1!%1 A r T rl E vs, 365 . The latines have a proverb, `Deligxa quern eh/agad. Chafe for )rr_aZ thy low, and then love for thy choice. God bath allo chofen us in the beloved , 1phef. a, '6. that we fhould be the beloved. of 'n,usvnv,l,wxñv his foul, or as the Septuagint there emphatically render it, hù6e- !LK . Greetam lovedfoal. aaimam racaW: At dheßßallThew judgement] That is the doctrineofthe Gofpel Vulg. (whereby is convey'd into the heart that spirit ofjudgement and ofburning ) or the fweet effeftotit true grace, which is called judgement a little below, verf20. Verle 19. He ,/Tall set firive] To bear away the bell float others. Norcry] Nor lift up his voice, faith the Prophet, as loth to liehid, and therefore making an Oyes,as defirous ofvain-glory and popular applaufe. Landes nec carat, nec qnerit humanas. He delpifeth it as a-little Oinking breath,or the flavering of mens lips which he difdains to fuck in. Vetfe 20. ei4bruifedreed Jkall he not brew] A reed (haken with the winde is takenfora thing very contemptible at the be(f, mat,/ r,q, how much more when bruifed ? The wick ófa candle 'slack worth; and yet leg:, when it fmoaks; as yeeldingneither light nor heat, but only (lunch and annoiance. This men bear not with, but treadout : So loth not Ctrl( , who yet bath a (harp note, a (angularfagacity, and form relents our provocations. He bath alto feet like burning brsffe to tread down all them that wickedlydepart from his brutes, Pfa1.119.1 i 8. But fo do not anyofhis, and therefore he receiveth and cherilheth with much fweetneiîc, not the Orong oaks only of his people , but the bruifed reeds too ; nor the bright torches only, but the. fmoak- , ing wick : He delpifeth not the day offmall things. Smoak is sepf,uhv°v. of the fame na'ure with flame : for what elfe is flame, but A ry ?óusvov, fmoak fct on fire ? So, a little grace may be true grace, as Heb. ;7 the filings of gold are as good gold (though nothing f3 much caligrant,,bjcu. of it) as the whole wedge. The lead: fpark of fire, if che- rìlu.ena, tithed, will endeavour to rife above the air, as well as the greaten : So the leaft degree of grace will be afpiring tb more. Now thofe very pantings, induietations, andunfatisfi. -' bleneff,cannot but fpring from truth ofgrace, which Clrrilt makes highaccount of. Tillhe bringforth] Cr. Thruit forth withviolence,the devil and ;et ,. the world invain oppofìng the work ofgracc .( called here judged lib ment )
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