Chapa3. accordiugto Se M A T T R E VV. fometimes 40, fometimes i oo, fometimes Zoo met together. I 4'4'1°84 haveheard of one, who being Pent to them to take their names, and to efpie their doing, yet in beingamong them was converted, and cryed them all mercy. Verfe 34. And Without a parable s`fiake henot , &e.] A fin- guiar judgement ofGod upon them for their contumacy and con- tempt of the Gofpel : So is it now upon many people, that God taketh fometimes from their molt illuminate teachers; clearneffe and perfpicuity ofexpref:fron, for a punifhment of their unthank- fullnefle and rebellion againft the light. Theeves andmalefectors that affeét darknefle ( becaufe the lightdifcovers their evil deeds ) are worthily caft into a dark dungeon : fe here, Ezekiel, by the juft judgement of Godupon them, was no more underftood by his hearers, then ifhe had fpoken to them in a ftrange language. & i oti+rirate Heraclitus, for his obfcurities , was called the Dark,Doboar,anti diaas i¡t ? . it kerns he affected it; for heoft commanded his fchollers tode- 7HVds. liver themfelves darkly. A minifter is ftudioufly to fhun obfcuri- .Ad hoe eriara tie in his doetrine. But if nevertheleffe he prove obfcureand hard d j;ipu!ot eru- to beunderftood, let the people fee a hand of God in it, and rather, dr, eu,» l. la i reba frp run í;.ßei. accufe their own impiety, then the preachers inability. reran 2r;;r.,óv Verfe 35. 1Will utter things, &c.] I will freely and plenti- oblcurus eflo, fully eventilate them, as a fountain calketh out her waterscon- loh. Bodin. fiantly and without (pare. Charity is no churle : True gooincffe Erultabo vet is communicative and a:counts that it hath not that good thing. Pair rrProto that it doth not impart : as chat Bifhop of Licoln never thought 1:,14,L, fepretre. he had that thing which he did not give. It isnot powring out, diftat rnerri e, but want of powringout, that dryes up the ftreams of grace, as of cetat» vino. that oile, 2 King. 4 6. The liberall foul (hallbe made fat : andhe that waterech (ball be watered alto himfelf,Prov,i.i.25. Verfe 36. Declare unto its the parable ].Private conference -. bath incredibleprofit. The Minifter cannot poffibly fay all Man hour : feek fettlement from his lips, who bothmuff preferve, and prefent knowledge to the people 7unius was convertedby con, ference with a country-man ofhis, notfar from Florence, Galea- cituC4raccioltu, by a fimilitude of Peter Martyrs ita his publike le Lures on, I Corinth. feconded and fet oti by private ditcourfe. Davidwas more affcftedby Nathan' Thou art the man, then by all the lectures of the law, for a twelvemoneth.before. Verfe 37. Is the Sonne of man] i.e, Signifies the Sonne of Tan : as Circumcifion is the covenant : that.is, the fine of the, covenant. 393 r
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