416 ifa.3o.i8. ûZ.N21,,,,W,'n s. diz z d{>v,- aS, Sic dußíro aatu .inepte, ex- plár.at7 poj¡tt, 1War fit a duo C.1" iro. &c- man. A Commentarysapon theGo el Cbap.14 way foever a man bends his courfe, he is furetohave the winde fit , crofTe tohim. But thecomfort is, that whether North or South. blow,they both blowgood to a Chriltian,Cant.4,Mit. Verfe 25. And in the fourth Watch,&c.] 'Then, and not till then. His time is bth, whatever we think of it : his help mote tweet, becaute moll; fealotáable: his hand commonly kept fora dead lift. Verfe 26. They Were troubled] Ere they were helped: Things oft gobackward, ere they come forward with us. begs plagam-, fanaturus, gravioreminfZigit': he knows how co commend his. mercies to us. And they cried farfear] Forfear of him, in. whomwas laidupall,their.comfort..But PTimms in daabryr /latgur,Tinsor._. How oft are we mif.taken,and betooled byOur fears? Verfe 27. But fdraightway IefiuTfiake,&c.] He Waits to be gracious :Our extremity is his opportunity. Curs duplicantur la- teres venit Maft's. God, brings his people to the mount with e.4brabam, yea., to the verybrow ofthe hill,till theirfeet flip, and thendelivers them : when all isgiven up for loft, then comeshe in as out of anengine. It is I,fiar not.] ,Quid timet homainfanu.Deipofit&ts? A childe that is in his fathers boiome,fears nobugbears. Verle 28. Ifit be thou,bidme come unto thee,&c.] This far of Peter fotne extoll,as an argument of his ftrong faith and love to Chrift. But others of better judgement,cenfure it as aneffeftof unbelief, and ra(hneffe in him, requiring to beconfirmed by a mi racle : to the which though our Saviour afiented, yet we cannot fay that he.approved,it. The other ?aiciples beleeved Chrift up- on his bare word,but Peter muff have a Ggne. He had it,but witha check,ver.; t. Vcrfe 29. And he fail, Come.] Had the pharifees asked a fìgne, they ihöuld have gone without, and have heard, tricked and ba.ftardly bnoed.as Matt/J.1 2.3.9, But a Peter.fhall have it, rather then he (hall halt betwixt twe,as the word is,ver.1: Chrift con- defcends to his infirmity,and bids him, come. And the like was his dealing with that vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs Hsuirnood : who doubting much ofher falvation, was often counfelled by a worthy Minifter, to take heed of enquiries further then Gods word,&c. Yet f2í11 did the temptation grow uponher, in(omuch that having a. Venic glafle, in her handy and the fameMinifter fitting by her,
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