Chap.i4. according ta St AZ A T T H B vv. 413 Verfe 17. And they fay unto him; We have here] Andwere therefore ready to fay with Nicodemus, Hoarcan this b.e ? Chrift had Paid, Giveye them to eat, to try them only, as St /vimbath it. And, upontriafl, he found them full ofdroffe, as appears by their Joh.ß.s, anfwer. But the comfort is, he bath promifed to try his people indeed, but not asfilver ; left. theyfhould not bear any foexa to Iia,48.1o triall, as having more droffe in them then good oar. And, where he findesany the kali grain of true grace, he cherifheth, anal inhan- ceth ir, by a further partaking ofhis holineffe. The Difcipleshere EIeb,a Z to. were as yet very carnali, and .fake a6men : They were ready to limit the Holy one, and to faywith thofe ofold, Can heprepare a table in theWildernefr'e ? They meafuredhim by their modelt,and looked as Naaman did, upon Iordanwith Syrianeyes. This .was their faulr,and mutt be our warning ; that when we thinkof God, we (hut out Hagar,andtecup Sarah, filence our reafon, and exalt our faith ; which killeth and quelleth difcruf}full fear, and be ., leeves againft fenfe in things invilible, and againft reafon in things incredible. But five loaves and two fifties] Tyrabofco was hardly dri- va tuta. ven when from thefe five loaves and two fifties he con- 164,> eluded fever) Sacraments. Two, belike, of Godsmaking, and five nt the bakers. So -Census Bifhop of e.luranches, wonia prove the Church of Rome the true Church, becaufe it had bells by which their Aflemblies be ordinarily called together : But the Churchof the Lutherans was reported to be congregated by claps of harquebuzes and pif1olets : And fo makes a long Antithefis, by the which he would make good, that bells are the makers of the and true Church.As that bells doe found,the other crack:bellsopenheal. 161 8iß ven,the other hell,&c. Verfe 18. Bring them hither to me] Bring weall wehave and are co Chrift, that hemay takeoff the curie, and adde theblef, fing. What the Apolile faith ofmeat and marriage, is true of the reft, All things are fanaifled by the Wordand prayer. To teach thepeople this,it was, that the fruit of the trees was not cobeea- 1 ,r.,4,, ten,till the trees were circumcifed. Lev.19.23. Verfe 19, And looking up to heaven, hebleged] Heathens onfecrated their cates before they carted them,as appears by many paffages in Homer and Virgil. Some fay that the Elephant ere be eats his mear, turns up with- his trunk the firft fprig towards heaven. The Scripture,we arefirre,fayes,that lien-etc to hod when E e them
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