384. r.I Commentaryupon theGo iel Chap .. Verfe 15. For this peoples heart, &c. ]' A fat heart is afear-. full plague. Their heart is fat as greafe, but I delight in thy law, Pfal. r i9 70. None can delight in Gods law that are fat hearted. Feeding cattel we know, are most brutifh and blockifh. And Phy_ fsognomers observe, that a full and fat heart, betokens a dull and daltifls difpofitión. eglons fat paunch would not part with the ponyard : and Pliny tells of bears fò fat that they felt not the tharpeft prickles. Their ears aredull ofhearing ]So were the believing Hebrews, for the which they are much-taxed and. tutored by the Apof ie, .urdafler erat (rafted : fed thud pejus, quid malé audiebat, faith Tully. Thefe here hear very ill, for their no better hearing. Their eies they have clofed ] Or they wink hard with their ties : they that the windowes left the light fhould come in : nt liberiáes peccent libentèr ignorant, they donot, what they might, toward the work. Leif at any time they fhould fee 3 See we may here (in that. which they should have feen and done) the right order ofrepen- tance to falvation, never to be repented of. The blindeeie is o- pened, the deaf eareunftopped, the dull heart affected, es.. God firft puts his 'awes into mens mindes, that they may know them, and then writes the fame in their hearts, that they may have the comfort, feelicg and fruition of them : And then it is, I Will be to them 4 Ged and they f.al be to me a people Het. S.aca. Verfe i6. But billed are your eies, &c, J Demarathus of Corinth was wont to fay that chofe Grecians loft a great part of the comfort of their lives, that had not feen great .11ea:ander fitting on Darius his throne. St Aqiin wished but to have feen three fights, Romani in flore, Paulum in ore, ChriJ?um iaa. torpore, Ronne in the flourifh,Paul in the pipet, Chriftinthe effa. .Andyossre res, fir they hear] The turtles voice, the joyfull found, the live ly. Oracles, the precious promisesof the word, there - fore called the word, by a fpecialty, becaufeour ears fhould liften . afterno other word but that. Ort: en chides his hearers for no- thing fo much, as for this that they came lo feldom to hearGods word: and that when they carne, they heard it fo careleflely, rein judicans, faith 8rafmus, bins. effeprncipuumpietatispro- Ìe f#urrr aut de f efarm, as one that well, knew thatmensgrowth in .berro, ?'7:t3rcö. ?errfïr.pe.efat : 440)14. opera
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