376 A Commentary upon theGlel :Cí andMon jot r,7 t.q. rr tp,:cxv. O anióusrnarz5 ine c gr:r7102 Fu re. Chap.a2. -wards brake out, it proved the plague of leprofie. Thefeare called fòrfakers of the Covenant, Dan. t 1.30. and wicked doers againit the Covenant, ver.32. Renegate Chriftians prove the molt 'de- fparateDevoto's to thedevil. We feeby experience, that none are worfe then thofe that have beengood and are naught : or thole that might begood, and will be naught. Such as were thefe Jews in the Text, to whom therefore our Saviour applies the Parable in thefe words. even[fballit be alto onto thisWitkedgeneration] Their fins were not common fins ( but as thofe of Korah and his complices,) therefore theydied not common deaths. As they pleated not God, but were contrary to all men, fo wrath carne upon them to the uttermoft, a Theff.246. as Iofephtr witnefTeth. And Mr Fox re- lates of Bonner that wicked Apoftate, that as he wretchedly died in his blinde Popery (after he had been long time prifoner in the raign of QElizabetio,) fo, as ftinkingly andblindely at midnight was he brought our,andburied in the out-fide ofall the City,among theevesand murtherers. A place, faith he,right convenient, with confulon and derifion both of menand children, who trampling tttpon his grave, well declared how he was hated both of God aidman. Verfe46. Defring to fpeakWith hit] Either out ofcuriofity or ambition, as Ambrofe thinks : certain ìr is, at a molt unfeafon. able time. Nowas fith and Beth, to,every thingelfe is naught out of feafon. Verfe 47. Behold thy mother and thy brethren] This was a weaknefe in his mother, though other wife full ofgrace, yet not without original' fin, as the Sorbonifts contend, but had need ofa Saviour, as well as others, Lnk. i.47. Scipio permits not a wife man fo to doe amifle once inhis whole life, as to fay,nonptetaram,. Howmuch better Crate; the Pnilofopher, who Paid that in every Pomgranate there is at kalt one rotten kernel' to be found : in- timating thereby, that the beft have theirblemifhes, their faults and follies. Verfe 48. Who is my mother, and Who, &c.] This meereft lambe was ttirred with a holy indignation at fo absurd an incerrup, tion, and tharpes him u? that delivers the meflage. Great is the honour that is due to a mother. Solomon let Bathfheba at his right hand,and promifed her any thing with reaton. Nefcitne An- ttpatcr ssnicam matrix dtchrym Lin mars ifitwcrlivinataoner pÛJfe
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