402 cart Commentary quo the Ga#el Chap.tg. anordinary fayingof our Saviours,recordedby all four Evangelifls, and istherefore much tobe marked. Howcommon is it, for fa- miliarity to breed contempt ? for men to (corn their own things, becaufe at hand, though never fo excellent and ufefull, to admit, forrein things, though nothing comparable. Our corrupt name heeds nothing we enjoy, as the eye leech nothing that lyesonit. Copy of the belt things breeds fatiety. God therefore doily teachethus theworth ofthem by the went. U$yez a tergo f rèfor- maf f ma.Good things aremouì beautifullon the backlide. Verfe 58, He did not many mighty works ] Mork faith he could not doe Fnuchfor them. Chri($, that could doe all things by bis abfolute power, could hardlydoe any thingby his admit pqw. er (could not becaufe he would not). for u.nbeleevers. Note here that this journeyof his,toNao reth, mull hediftinguifbed from that let down, Lak4. though the fame things are laidofboth his cçuntryttien,we fee were no changelings., but continued as bad as before,not a jot the better for that former vifit. Becatife of theirroo.beiief J Afin of that venom,ous nature, that it transfuteth, as it were, a dead pallie into thehands of omnipo- tency. This infec`fious (órcerefle canmake things exceeding good, toprove exceeding evil. CHAP. XI V. Verfe a. At that time,&c IN )Hen he was raft out by his countrymen, he was heard of V V at the C court. The Got tl,as file tea, what it lefeth in one place, it getteth in. another.. But what? hadnot HeroQi heard ofr Chrift till now ? I t is the miS ryof many good Kings, that they feldorn hear the truth of things. .4ipbanflo King of,Arr;a oe be- wailed it. And of M. it relira, one of thebefl Rosbanc Ecnpe- touts, it isPaid, that he. was even bought and fold by his Court- As for Herod, he may Teem to have been of G ilio',c. religion,even a cnecr irreligon. He lay melting in filthypleafutts, 1-;or and minded not the things above.. Whoredom, wine and new 9,9, wihe had taken away his.h:art. S. Luke adds, thathe d.fred to fee Chriflt, but yet never flirted out of doors to go tohim ; Good. tno.ions make but a thorow.fate of wicked mens hearts: they pane away as a f1afhoIlightning, that, dazleththe eyesonly, and . leaves more darkneffebehind it. Verfe
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