_ --- A Commentary upon theGoj)el Chapa5. Gods commands should be kept as the apple of theeye,T rov.7, a. They are broken by omiflfions , cornrniffions and failings in the manner : like as a. man may miffs the markby (Mooting short, or Arbenienfes cle beyond, or wide. Thefe Pharifees, as thofe e4thenians of old kaberer,t equip. ( whereas theyhad moil excellent Laws, but moil lati< lcfle na- fima jura, tures ) chose rather to live by their lofts, then by their laws. fedinqui(- They had many traditions, and unwritten verities , pretend- p»aÌrgenia, ed to be invented and prefcribed them by their Elders, rnor+bas foie r;i: trytbus,wi r, ;át. that by the .obfrvaticn thereof they might be the better en- ie t, V3i.r. abled to keep Gods Commandments. Thefe traditions they &fax (tiled, t?rfafhlamnathoth, Completions or Terferñlions : becaufe ttworr.T;ber thereby they conceited, that the written law was made more Paz.-S' complete-and perfea. And fay not the Papills as much of their traditions ? Ephet 6.2. Verte 4, For God commanded,Plying ]; This is called the fir,f¢ crzoT>r, prop,r. Commandment »ithpromife, viz, the hrit affirmative Command- iy!i,>mfieth an ment , or the hr(k, in thefecond Table : or the fir(} of all the ten affrma. ire with promife. For that in the fecund Commandment is rather a COrna Geoget. declarationofGods justiceand mercy, and that to the obfervers of Ste JGouge toe whole Law : but here is a particular promife made to them eïsibm (hales. P p a that keep this particular commandment. Gen.47 ra. Honour thyfather andmother]: Among other good offices, mu,: l;utfa 4,1 5. ri(h and chetilh them as 7-ofeph tlid 7aeob and his family, Chepi Tint 5.4. to am, as a mannouriiharh his little-ones, lovingly and tender- nun t.. l Beunto them as Obed was to Naomi, efl rflarcr ofher lid, Plur.:b.Sator. Y , J,s,ç,5, andanourifher ofher Wage. This the Apoflle commends to us, as a thingnot only good before men, l u: acceptable before God.This the Stork andthe Moufe teachus, by their firrgular love to their a- ged (irrs, Cornfliia was the flaffof his fathers age,, and thereby merited the honorable name of Scipio among the Rowans. E. paminondad rejoyced innothing more, then that he had lived to chear up thehearts ofhis aged parents, by the reportsof his vide- rt'o°" ;" `"'" pies. Corparentsareourhonfhold,odc, faiá Hliorocler.. vE.neas;s firnarned Pim, for his love to his father, whom he bore upon his heck oat of the fire of Troy. And Ariflotlt tels how that when `''a115'4)/4-7U from the hill r,_rna, there ran down a torrent of .fire that confer 2- red all the houfes thereabouts, in the midst of thofe fearfull flames 7Neys7.'DTU Gods fpeciallcare ofthe godly (hived m3í1 brightly. For the river office part°d it felt, and made a kinde oflane for thofc who yen- :?p 6, toted to refine their aged parents, and pluck themGut of the jaws dNath He,
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