-4:.M.Mi 374 A Cemmoirotary apof the Go(Pel Chap.12, 'So (hall the Sonne of man be three dayet,, &c,] Taking a part for the whole. So Elfherfailed three daies and three nights, chap, =4.16. And yet on the third day the went to the Icing, chap.5.i, So then,the fait lafted not three whole dales and nights, but two nights,one full day,and twopeeces ofdales. Verfe 41. They repented at the preaching- ofyonas ] At one Engle Sermon of a-meer ftranger, who fang fo doleful! a dity to them, as the deltruffion of their Town : And yet they repented. What will becomeof us? Ve torpori "refire. If M. Bradford fo complained of his own unprofitableneffe under means, in thofe dimme dayes, what caufe have we ñow much more? Here in Londo,,faith he,be fuchgodly, goodly and learned Sermons, which chele uncircumcifed ears of mine doehear, at the leaft thrice a week,whichwereable to buril anymans heart, to relent,to repent, to beleeve, to love and fear that omnipotent gracious Lord. But mine adamantine, obftinate, moll unkinde,unthankfull heart, hear- ing my Lord fo (weedy calling and crying unto me, now by his Law,nowby his Gofpel, nowby all hiscreatures,to come, tocome even to himfelf : I hideme withAdam, I play not only Samuel Ira. and Mon. running to Eli, but I play lonas running to the fea, and thereI fo;., 5 ° ;.. fleep upon the hatches, until! he pleafe to raife up a tempri:, tci turn and look upon me as he did uponPeter,&c. Verfe42. The queen ofthe South,&c.] The Ethiopian Chro- nicles call her Mackeda, and further tell us,chat fhe had a fonneby Solomon,whom fhe named D avid. Sure it is thatfhe camefrom a far countrey to hear Solomon, and was ib takenwith his wifdom, that (he could have beencontent tohave changed her Throne for his foot(cool. Now ourSaviour cook it ill ( and well hemight) that men came not as far, and (et not as high a price upon him and his doetrine,as (hedid upon Selemon and his wifdom, how much more that theee hard-heartedJews efteemed itnot,though brought home to their doors Verfe 43- when the unclean sprit] Unclean thedevil is cal- -len, i.a,1ffi io.ne (faith Jacobus de Voragine) becaufe he loveth uncleanneffe. 2. Perfuaf :one, becaufe he perfwades men to it. 3. Habitntione,becaula he inhabits unclean hearts : he findes them 'foul, he makes them worfe. Wherefoever thegreat Turk fets his foot once, no gralfe grows,chey fay, ever after. Sure it is, nograce grows where the devil dwells. PuraDeus mens efh, faith one: And Religion loves to lye clean, faith another. The holy Spirit 'Viii
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