Chap.Ys, according toStMATTx fi VV. 419 CrdAP. XV. Verfe I. Then came to 2efur, Tf ien, when the men of Ger<nefreth favoured and obferved' him. Satan ftomacketh the pro(perity of Gods Kingdom in any place,and ftirrethup his to oppofe it. Efaubegan with Jacob in the womb, that no time might be loft. As loon as ever the Churches childe was borne, the devil fought to drown hina, Rev. 12. Scribes andPharifees ] Learned and lewd; there are Chills greateft enemies, hypocrites efpecially, thole night-birds, that cannot bear the light of true religion, but, as bats, beat a- gainft it. Which Were cf lerufalem ] That faithful! City was now be- come anharlor,her filver was degenerate into droll;,her wine mixt with water. The fweeteft wine turns into the fowreft vineger, the white(t ivory burnt, into the blackeft coal. So about the year 1414 Theodorictcs Vrlas in Germany, an arleugufti e Frier com- plained,:not without caute, Ecclefiam Romanam ex aurea E am argenteam, ex argenteâ firream,ex frrcit tcrream,.rupereffe ut infterctu abiret. obferved,that there was no where Life piety,then in thole that dwelt neareit to Rom. Verle 2. Tranfgrefe the tradition ofthe Elders?j They cryed up aloud Traditions,and the authority of Antiquity. Similcn: hc- diè dicnm Papigta nobisfcribunt. For as the Philofophers fled and hid them(elvcs in the hxreticks, as one faith, (o did the Scribes and Pharifees in the Popitla Doelouts. Non tams ovum ovo frnile: One egge or apple is not fo like another, as Pharitces and Papifts. The Pharifees deemed it as great a -fin to eat withunwa(hn hands, as to commit fornication. Semblably,the Papifts count it worfe co deface an Idol, then to kill a man, to eat flesh or eggs on a farting day, then to commit inceft, and for a Prieft to have one wife then ten harlots. 7:72e3aMc, fay forne,is the number of the beat1,666. Verfe 3. He anfwered andfaidunto them] He (hares them an anfwer by way of Recrimination : which is a ,fingular means of convi`$ion to the adver(ary,but hard to be doneby us without Lome mixture of bitterneffe, inch as was chat in David to ,,)7,1i4.1).41, 2 Sarr,.6.Z t. Tr.tnfgrefe the Ccmtaandm :nt of God by your tradition?] E e 4 . Gods 1f3.1.'2*0.2; G^dw qu;t, lieb. fag. 47 Par(us à,x rt x,
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