432 A Commentary upon the Geld Çhap,a , Verfe 3 Z. I have coìnpafan on the multitude] My bowels yearn towards thetn, Neither is he lode loving now that he is in heaven, towards his poor pennileffe need-Ewers people on earth: but they are hardeft put tobt , and haply have not a crofte to blare thernfel.ves with, as the proverb is,heto gracioufly próvides, pia}ej 410. that though theyoung lions (or theftrong ones, as the Septuagint have it ) doe lackand[ffer hunger, yet they thatfeek the Lord Want nothing that's rood fir therm,. eAaron though he might not bewail the deathof his two Ions, Lev.io. becaufe he was High -pried, yet his bowels of fatherly affection towards them A.,q, could not be reftrained. Chrift retaineth{till compaßîon,He6.4 5 though free from perfonall paflìon:and,thoush freed from feeling, leer a Lumi- hathfull yet afellow-feeling: Janetcomp:.foetiam cum impaf., lit t fibilitate, faithBernard. Becaure they continue with me now threeages] The Lord; takes punauall and particular notice ofall circumftances, how far they carne, how long they had been there, how little able they wt re to hold out fafting<to their ownhomes,&c. And fo he -cloth ttill,recount howmanyyears,daies,hours we have (pent-with him: what ftrairs, lcfles, heats, colds, dangers, ditfictlties we have en- ccuntred with and paffed.thorow; all is exat}ly regil$ red in his Rev t. r9.. bookof remembrance : ikrìow thy work, and.thy.labiar, faith he, rev. a. Men take much pains many times, and none regard it, rep._ ward it. Bat Chrift takesnotice, not ofhis peoples works only, but oftheir labour in doing them, that he may fullyrecompencc their labour of love, their Joffe of goods,d c. the godly !hallknowin themfelves,not only inothers;in.books &c.thakthey havea better, andan endurin Tubs`I'ance,Heb.1o,34 na[c;J ai tit Verfe 33. Whence Am/4 We have &c.].. See their ftupidity. .b' }Hiner ,a e and diffidence, yet Rill budgingand breakti.ii;out, upon all occa- r = ac, fons. What a life hathChrilt with the heft ofus, ere he can bring "°e, usto.any thing Corruptionwill have Tome flures,fò;ne out- burfts.. No.hin;.cleaves to us more pertinacioufly then this evilheartof unbelief : like a fretting leprcüe in our cottages ofclay, thodteh the walls be well fcraped, yet it will never utterly otrt,till the héufebe demolityted. Verfe 34. Seven, and a fsw littleMet ] .Before,he had fed five rhoufand with fewer loaves.. God can as ealìly maintain us with a little, as with more; wicnefle Danish pulte, and Eliah's cake: .Ki' r9.6. on the coais,andctufe of water; Lrsth'rs herring, and ¡units his one.
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