422 4,Commextary upon theGlel :relieve his father but mutt rather fee and (Mir him to die for hunger in the ftreets ? Lyra.hath aide very words , Fllimpeii profiffionem f&w in relegione , exeufltsr ì Abreniendo piros. tibm, This Lyra was a famous Ergtiih Jz.w, but an arrant Papift,, as, for auft part , all were then : for he flouriflied 114710 ; 20. Verte 7. kPc// Ifziaspropkecy ohm) Of fuch as 'you, and- foofyou too. The Propbetsand ApoItles then fpake not ofthetn onlywithwhom they lived, and to whom they wrote ( as the je.fuites blafpheme)but theiroracles anddoatines do extend fill --Pf111,40,7. tomenofthe fame flaw and making. if; the volume of thy book. it ie written of me, faith David : he found his own name in Gods book. And where he fpake with 74cob at Bethel, there he fpake with us , faith Hofi4 , Chap. 12. 4. And, whgtfiever was written, was written for our learning, faith Taut, Rom. 14.4i V. rfe 8. This peopledr4werk nigh untome, &e.] And they arc no changelings,: For at this day, al(houzb they know-better, and can wri eupon the wallsof their Synagogues this fentence, Te- Sotart. Able. phillah belocauvannah chegaph belonejbarnah, that is, Praier with- 86. our the intention of theminde is but as a body without a foul; yet (hail not a man an where feeldf.: intention then in their ori fns. The reverence they file v ( faith Sr Edwin Sands, who fa w it ) is in landing lip at times, and thegellure ofadoration, in the bowing forward of their bodies. for kneelinq they ufe none (no more do the grecians) neither fir they their bonnets in their Sy. s0,Th;, Ewe nagogucs to any man : but remain fill covered. They come to it withwail= hands, and in it theybarn lamps to the hanour of sirer P.0.9;ir God : but for any Chewofdevotion or elevationoffpirit, that yet 4"1 in Jewscould I never difcern : but they are as reverend in their adeeFtere , Synagogues, Jervet as Grammer-boyes :are at fehool , when their confoefuitnepo. matter is abfent, In fumme , their holineffe is the very out- quam prf, ward work it Llf, being a brainleffe head, and foullefle body. reve. Thus he. z:e T4codorico. honoureth mewith their lipt Bu' pray cr is not the labour epifl. fo thc lips, hue the travel ofthe heart th: power of a petition is tib not in the roofof the mcvh, but root ofthe heart. To give way to wilfull eFfiraciions, is tocommit whoredom in Gdcfs prefence. Is it fit to prefent the King with anempty cask ? or to tell him a tale with our backs towards him ? Behold; / ar,I a sreat
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