Chap .13. according to St MA T T H L VV. prudence and patience. Thofe Ionsofthunder hadover -quick and hot fpirits, Luk,9.55 Luther confeffed before the Etnperour A7. an 'Atop. at Warmes, that in his books againfl private andparticular per- tit 777. d fens, he had been more vehement then his religion andprofefüon required. And he that writes t1-e hiflory of theTrent-Councell tells us, if we may beleeve him, that in Colloquia Poili.Acen?,Be- z4,fpeaker for the Proreflants, entring into the matter of the Eu- Hilt. ofConne. charift, fpake with fuck heat, that he gave but ill fatisfaftion ciT;enr =953. to thole of his own party ; fo that he was commanded to con- clude. Zeal fhould eat us up,but not eat up our difcretion,our mo- deration. Verfe 29. Lefi Whilft ye gather up the tares] Thofe that are now tares, hypocrites, may become good corn, good Chriftians. tether an Ifhmaelite by nation, may prove an Ifraellte by religion. Simon Magus may perhaps have Ptieffthoughts of his hear fr- A`ts8.a1: given him. In the year 15 5 3 Y on one day ; and the next day afterhe came into the Pulpit,and de- fired all the people to forgive him : for he laid he had betrayed Chrifl,yet not as Judas did, but as Peter : and fomade along Ser- AT. an 1 Mono, mon againff theMafle. tor 1330 Verfe 20. Binde them in bundles , &c.] This (hall be the An- gels (Ore at the la(l day, to bundle up swearers with fwearets,, drunkards with drunkards,t c. ,that they may.fuffer together, as they have finned together, and pledge ogle another in that cup of fire and brimflone that (hail then be poured down their throats,. Pfal.11.6. As in the mean, bri.mftone is herefcattered upon their. habitation, yob I8. 15. every moment ready to take fire, if.. God but lighten upon it, with the arrows of his indignation,; T(ä1.18.14 Verfe 31. is like to a grain of mu lardfeed ] Which fòon, pierceth the nollr is and brain, as Pliny noteth, and hurteth the.. eyes, as the very name inGreek importeth, But that which our. cubtírzia fer Saviour here ob!erveth and applieth In it is, the fmallneffe o tbe, tur,çuzndo nexi feed,the greatnefieof the ftalk icr tree that comes ofit, and the- de, aGud rhos in of the branches, for birds tobuild in. This grain of muítard-fed n.zres cr° cere fowcd,is the word preached : which though it feem fmall and. `rum perrerrnr, contemptible,provesquick and powet(uil : Hitherto flee the b.rds S2a ofthe ayr, Gods eleet for shade in profperity, for fhelterin,adver- 7-»41,7717-7,Y 4 ficy. Yea as the trees of America but e( ciall of Br4,fle, are P fo ;huge,, that feverall families are reported to have lived in teverall at: e3 389
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