412 A Commentary upon the Cio(pel Chapati. Jaw.2.1 S., ro in SC Lows his time, that faid to their neceflitou neighbours, .Depart in peace, be Warmed: But with what? with a fireof words. Be filled: but with what? with a meffe of words. For they gave them not thofè things that were needful! to the body. û(4r2 infcrip. But our Saviour, out of deep commifera tion, both pitied thepeo- turnyid' Spa- pie, and healed them on both fides, within and without. Oh how cu/at. sloe well may hebecalled a Saviour, which in the Originali is a word quanurn e17 ? fo full of Emphafis, that other tongues can hardly Linde a fit word' Ira rcaguu,n,ur to expreffe it by. Lowe uro Verfe tj, His Difciples came to him] Not the multitudes. trop a e peirrn They forgat their bodily neceflities, to attend upon Chris}, to . non po ice t'err, hang uponhis hony lips, preferring his holyword before their ne- cieer. Fyct 4 ccflary food, as did lob, chap.z3. t 2. Not only before his dain- ties and fuperfiuities, but his f bftantîall fled, without which he could not long live and fubfisl-. Thefe hearers of ourSaviour came out of their cities, where they had every thing at full, into thede.. Loth tarn a. fert, where they thought nothing was to be had, tohear him. 1 sper r Latin. had rather live in hell, with the word, laid Luther, then in Para. dife without it. Our fore..fathers gave five marks, fomeofthem (which is more mony then ten pound isnow) fgra good book,: and fome othersof them gave a load of hey fora few chaptersof andMon 'St Paul, or Sr lames in English. To hear a Sermon. they would »1 Ito. go as many weary íteps, as thofe good fouls did, Pfal 84.7. or as thefe in the text ; and negleft or hazard their bodies, to fave theirfouls. How far are they from this that will not put them - felves to any pain or coil for heaven ? and if held awhilebe- yond the hour ofa Sermon are as ill fettled, as if they were in the flocks, or in a fit ofan ague : they go out of the Churchasout ofa goal. This is adefers place, &c. ] Chrift knew all this, better then G .g;tathie. they could tell him : and to take upon them to tell him, was as if . c, rrceru1 crconr> the oftrieh fhould bid the Rork, bekinde toher young ones. an zsis i Verfe r 6. They need not depart] Whither fhould they go admorerer. from thegreat houfe-keeper of theworld, the All- fuflicient God ? tuo. Habet cert,e omnia, geti h.bet habentem omnia. Chrifl hach a itua in cornucopia, a horn oftalvation lenteous redemption, if he give us a crown, will he deny us acrufi ? he earth c. isAhe Lords and the falneffe thereof. He feeds t'1e ravens, and clothes the lilies. Ifmeat be denied, he can take away our Pm- tracks. He can feed us by a miracle, as he did. Elias ofold, and the Rochcller.r alate. Verfe
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