386 A Commentaryupon theGol eZ Chapa3. Andke berm"etk trnfraiitfhlï] Becaute the thornsova-top the corn whereas the good ground, though it bath many thorns, Mark 4 8. thefruit fpringsupandoencreafetgrace , s SftMark bath itt..rruThefe thorny-ground -hearers, though they flood out perfecution, and ahrancknot in thewetting, as the flonyground did, yet, becaufe the plowhad not gone fo low as to break up the roots, whereby their hearts were fattened to earthly contents, they proved alfa unfruitful). See how far a man may go, and yet be never the near afterall. TheBony and thorny ground were nearer to the nature ofthe good ground, then that ofthe high-way, and yet fdl thort of heaven. Verfe 23. Bait hethat receivedfeed, 8rc] Which is but a fourth part, if fo much, of tlíofc that have the word purely and power - . Is.3 r. fully preached unto them,. As at Ephefuá, fo in our Church -atí m -_ blies, the more part know not wherefore they are come together. Theywillfay, toferve God, and hear his Word, but who this Clod is, or how his Word is tote heard, they neither know nor siventri .bené, care. I fthebelly may be filled, theback fitted,&c. They have as fi tateri, &c, much as they look after. _ Andoffuch daft-heaps as thef ,,. all cor- n'r' Hers are full: Our Church is as much peflered, and eye 3 dark with there Epicuresand'Atheills, who yet will not Inge a Sermon, as t/fyypt:was with the Grafhoppers... Thcfeare thole1aft,and loof- efl times, wherein, by reafon of the over-flow of iniquity, The love ofmay rraxen told, but he that endureth to the. end 'hall be fd, ved. Where note that for many that lofe their love to Gods word, it is but a He in the.tingular number that, holds cut therein to the end.. Seme anhundred W] As Ifäac'.t fed did, that he fowed in -the landOf CanaRn.This is not every mans happineffe : yet we muft propound to our felves the highei pitch. And let as many a are . pee-lia be than minded That man for heaven, and heaven for him, that lets up for his mark, The refurreElionofthedead,phi! 3.' r.that is, that perfec4ionof hiplines that accompanieth the ella;e of the refurreeion.. Somefxty, fame - thirty ] It beta's not every man to excel), but it behoves:every.man to exaltof himfelffuch a growth in grace, that his profiting may appear toall, and that he is neither barren,_ a per,t nor unfruitful! in the knowledge of Iefue Chrift, The vine is the vs1,3, weakc t ofplants, yet bears abundantly. 7hyatira had but a lit- tic
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