-Chap.13. according to St MA T T H 401 abut what ifnot one? yet our labour is not in vain in the Lord. The Phyutian is both thanked and payed though the patient recover not. And though Ifrael be not gathered'( as here Chrafts coun- tryrnen wouldnot be reclaimed) yet I Jhal1 beglorious (faith he byhis fervant ETy)in the eyes of the Lord, andmy Godfhxll6emy Ira.49 5. firength. Verfe 54. And When he was come into his own country] Naercia gui no. Which naturally draws our hearts to it by a kinde of magnvtiek 'ate /otan e'ut_ power and property. Egypt was but a tniferable home to MTec, cedine cPd3Ptt op "and et his heart hangs after it, whiles he lived in Midian and rcir,Qg í3ß- Y g > > n.em -rs ros therefore in reference to it, he calls his eldeft Ion Gerfhom, or a ¢ir+it e//è fui. firanger there, to wit, where he now was. Patriam qui /i Ovid. amat, non quia pulehram, fed quiafüam, faith Seneca. Bifhop Exod 2.ar eWel, when he firfk began to preach, w chofe there 6ri} to break ß,tcm'ts t,F to ins thebreadcf iife,where he firft had breathed the breath oflift. orks. `j tc3rks. Infomuch that they Were aflonifbed ] It's a lamentablething that men fhould hear, rejoice and wonder at the word, and for matter ofpra&ice, leave it where they found it. And yet what more ordinary? Men look round about a Minifter : and though they cannot but admirehis doarine, yet, if they can finde ever a hole in his coat, thorow which to flipcut, as here, be it but the meannefieot his birth,_or the unfightlineflì: of his perfon, or the let(omrefTe ofhis deliuery,&c. it is enough Verle 55. Is not this the Carpenters (in ?] Why ? but was he jorcrhus Pater not Architect ofthe world ? St Markjiath it, Is not this the Car- t tbr,f i ¡oti,i_ penter ? Why yes ; it may be fo. fuflin (Martyr an ancient Irv, paw ivus, Writer teftifieth, that our Saviour ere he entred upon the Mini- F'j'un fu ¡fie ti,,nauum, ftry, made ploughs, yolces,&c. But was not that an h01,í1 vea i- a urrx ac j ga, patron ? And did not this Carpenter make a ceftii for Julian that c,eteracy elo(_ perfccuting ApoPtate, as a Chrtftian Schoolmattcr fitly anfwered t&drJaortca jè. Libanus, iarcaffica'.ly demanding : what the Carpenters Ion was now a doing ? Thus thole three rnilcreants, Saul, Shinei and S )zoraen lib. Sheba, took occafion to defpife David, as the f n o o Je who ?`cap a' f I± /'e, YAtoef, ip was virbonus e` honeflux, minkstumen cl.rus, as one faith of Ytr,t. him,a good honef}man,but there's little laid of hin'. Verle 56. Whence thenbath this ,nan,&c,] Hach tonot got 'hisskill by ill arts? yea by the black arc, doth he not work tieie wonders ? lure he never came by all theft things honeftly, and in Gods Name. Think it not much to bemifcenfured. Vcrfe 57. Prophet is not Without honour ; &c.] This was D d 3 are
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