Cháp.13. according to St MA T T H E V i. 3$"5 vangelift, the plow bath not gone deep enough ; and there- fore, though the earth be good , and the feed good , yet be- ing uncovered , unburied , it mifcarries. Exeriuntter, fed exu rurtur, His roots are dried up beneath, and above is his bud cut off, Job 18.16. For when tribulation or perfecutionarifeth ] As it will, for EÇct'e- _flit beretcructs, faith one. And oppoficion is , Ëvange!j genia, Cituia. faith another, It is but a delicacy togo about todivide Christ and his croffe. By and by he is cffended, ] Vadat Chriflus cam fuo Evangelio, faith he, Let Christ keep his heaven to himfelf, if it can be had upon noother terms ; he is refolved to fuffer nothing. When itcomes to that once, he kicks up profeffion, and may polli aly prove a fpitefall ad-vcrfary ofthe fame aniniftry, which ho once ad- mired, as Herod, and a proudcontemner ofthe fame remcrfe,with which himfelf was fometime fmitten, as Sarl, oderfe zz. Ye that receivedthefeed among thorns] So the love ofMoney is called, becaufe it chokes the word, pricks the con- fcience, harbc urs vermin lints. Magna ceQnatio, ut rei fenominit, divitiù& vitiis. Let rich men look to it, faith Gregery, that they zone peritura haadlc their thorns without pricking their fingers ; that whiles par r.er,n:,r: they load themfelves withearth, they loft not heaven, as Shimei parr, prat. feeking' his fervants loft himfelf. Set not thy heart upon the q17 :1oòj'7',zsr elff fes (faid Samuel to Saul) fhb to thee ís the delire of all lf- one reel, Set not your hearts, fay I, on this worlds trafh, fìth b:. con re ens. ° ter things abide you. (Martha was troubled about many things, bat neglefted that one thing neceffary, to lit,, as.:her filter did, at Chrifts feet, and hear his word. ThisChrist checks her far. eflnd the deceitfndneffeofriches ] The world is a fnbtill, fly e- Aoxie .pivTOi nemy, that dotheafily infinuate and dangeroufly deceive. We may fafely fay ofit, as hefometimes didofan Hittorìan, Both it's es4 ATZvii.Ja words and thews are full offraud, As the Panther hides his de- '' ''I °""de formed head, till the fweet fens havedrawn other beafls into his Hzrodaro. danger : fo deals the world, alluring men by the dec :itfulneffe of riches, and masking the monftrous and deformed head, the end thereof, under the gilded thew of good husbandry , or dif- guifed fhape offin. In a word, thefe,outward things, howf ver as hafts they welcomeus intoour inne with finiling countenance, yet, unk fewelookbettertothem, they will cut our throats in our beds. C c 3 e"ind
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