366 A Commentary upon the Go(ße1 Chap.i i- anent) which tall furely beperfeEtcd.He that is Authear,the fame $,b.is. 3. will beñnither of our faith:he doth not ufc to do his work to the halves, Non eft ejafdem,invenire &perficcre, we fay. But that rule holds not here. Ver fe s i. Shall the Gentilesfruit ] This truth is hereput for the whole feryiceofGod, itbeing the leaft, and yet the bell we can render tohim. And the more we knowof his narnc,themore we (halltrull inhim, `P%a1.9. c o Mira u. Verfe 22. One .poffeffeel With adevil blindeanddumb.] A heavy, 4.""".696'44'. cafe, and yet that that may be any mans cafe. Cuivrepouf( continge-: èrru Xéno bop. re, quadmignonpoeeft. Every one that, feeth another (tricker, P and hrmfelt fpared, is tokeep a Paf«eoverfor himfelf, and to lay, Thou haft punifhed meMI then my figs have merited, Ezra 9e 23. The devil had hat up horn this man all paffages to faith, faith Theophylaîf , by bereaving him of the ufe of his eyes, ears, and tongue. See a mercy in the ufe of our fec- fes, &c. t.Mu16 plum fiat gratin privative quam pofitiva_, faith Orlon, AJtplrarioge Verfe23.. Andall the people Were amazed] Admiration bred pent pbitoro. Philofophy, faith the Heathen : it bred ficperliition, faith the. ptiiam,. Scripture, when the world went wondering after the beaft.. erel.r3.3. We may fay too, that it bred piety in this people, and (till . we f:e the Word never works kindely, till men hear and ad-. mire it. Let others cenfure with the Pharifees ; let us wonder with the multitude. The devil Verfe 24.,Thieffow dotl?,tsotcafl out devils, &c. ] that was calf out ofthe demoniacks body teems to have got into theft mens hearts. But he was not his craftfmallet : for What a ter í1:.f1'. hander hear we ? .He fhould have arted it a little better, to have been believed. Tenue mendacium pellucet, faith Tacitna. This was fuch a lie as might be eafily looked thorow. But envy never regards how true, but how mfchievous. Witnefe the Po- pithPharifees, who tell the poor, coifed and muzzled people in their Sermons, that the Proteftants-are blafpherners ofvod and all his Saints : that the Englilh are grownbarbarous, and eat young children: that ever tiince the Pope excommunicated us, we are Er difolutie. as black as devils that the Powder-treafon was plotted, and far mould have been ailedby thePuritans : that thefal.of Black-fri. t0tr natipni tror,8tc D.Frid. ers in London, likewife was wrought by the Puritans, who had c i. ioofned theraftcrs,erc., That theft arc the opinions we hold
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