378 A Commentary open the God el Chap, i 3. andmother. Sifter is named, to (hew that no fex is excluded, And mother lait mentioned, that the prerogative of the flefhmay be fet afide and difacknowledged. CHAP. XIII. Verfe r. The fameday] \)Herein Chrift had had a'lharp bout andbickering with V the Scribes and Pharifees in the forenoon, he fat and taught the people (as it may teem ) in the afternoon. Aprefi- nench not dent of preaching twice 'a day. Chryfoftoms pra&rfe was to toe iPit'ie gig-w' Preach in the afternoon, and by candle-light; as appears by his vvn dumß`" Note on, a Thef,5.17. where he fetched' a fimilitude from the bryf BxQs lamp he was preaching by. Luther like wife preached twicea Ae andMon. day : which becaule one Nïsohat White commended in him, he foes s0, was accufedof herefie in the raigne of Hen. S. And thiscommen- dablecourfe began to be difgraced and cryed down inour laies asPuritanicall and fuperfluous. A learned Bi(hop was highly ex- 'B. rindrovs. tolled in print for laying that when he was a Luturer in Landon he preached in the morning but prated only in the after-noon. A fair commendation for him. He fat by the fea fide] As waiting anopportunity ofdoing good tomens fouls : which was no fooner offered, but he readily laid hold on. So SC Paul took a text of one of the Altars in A- thens, and difcour(eth on it to the fùperftitious pccple. Amini- iter muff (tand ever upon his watch- tower, prompt and prefent, ready and fpeedy to every good work (as the bee fo fòon as ever the fun breaks forth, Oyes abroad to gather hony and wax) ac- counting employment a preferment, as cur Saviour did, lohn 17.4. Verfe 2, He Went into a)hip and rat] Thinking, perhaps, there to rcpofe himfelf, after his hard conflift with the Pharifees. But the fight of a new audience, incites him to a new painsofpreach- ing to them And as he held no time unfea(onable, fono place unfit for inch a purpofe. We finde him eftfoones teaching, not in theTemple only and fynagogues on the Sabbath day (as he did conftantly) but in the mountains, in cities, in privatehou(es, by the tea-fide, by the way .fide by the wells fide, any where, every where, noplace came amiffe to him, nopulpecdifpleafed him.
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