Chap.16. atcording to St M A T T H fl VV. affèded, by their very name, to be held the only juft men ; haply becaufe they held, that all the reward that righteous men are to look for is here in this world. The occafionof this heretic is (aid to be this. When Antegonua taught, that we mutt not fèrve God for wages,his scholars underflood him, as if he had utterlydenied all future rewards or recompense attending a godly life : and thence framed their heretic, denying the Reiurredion,world tocome,An- gels,devils,and lived as Epicures and Libertines. Verfe7. It is becaufe We have taken no bread] Oh the dull- nef a that is in the bell to receive or retain heavenly mylteries 1 Surely,as Owls feebell by night,and areblinde by day : fo in deeds of elarkneffe we are fharpfighted,wife to doe evil; but in fpirituals, we areblinder then beetles, cur wits ferve usnot, we are fìngularly Hupid and Hubborn. Verle 8. O ye oflittlefaith !] Fidesfamem non formidat. It was want of faith that made them fear they thould perish in the wilderneífc for lack of bread : God was better to them then their fears. He makes the belt living of it, that lives by faith : Feed ors faith : SoTremek'im reads that, Pf1.37.3. Why reagn ye amongs`l your felves ?] They likely laid the fault offorgetfullneffe one upon another:but none found fault with himfelf for his unbelief,and carnali reafoning. Verte 9. Neither renumber] Tantumdidicimtts, grsantum meminimus. So much we learn as we remember. Our memories are naturally like hour-glafies, no fooner filled withgood iuflru- etions and experiments, then running out again. It tamfl be our prayer to God, that he wouldput his finger upon the hole, and fo make our memories like the pot of Mannar), preferving holy truths in the Arkofthe foul. Verle I o. Neither the fevers loaves] Learn to lay upexpe- riences. Ifwe were well read in the Hory ofour own lives ( faith a Reverent man)we might have a Divinity of ourown. The Philo- fopherfaith, that experience ismultiples memeria, becaufe,of the memoty of the fame thing often done, arifeth experience, which fhouldbe thenu; fe cf confidence. Verle H. Mew is it that ye urd ;rflandnot ?] Ignorance under means is a blulifull fin. The Scripture calls fuch, Hortes, Affes, Mules,and fends them to fchool tounreafomable creatures. Vcrfe a z. Then unders`lood they how,&c.] This chiding theta was well fi:ftowed. So was that, Lrrk,z4.r9, upon the two llilci}less,. 417 julép4.hb, i7; cap ¡0-' es.. cap.s. Cad.vtn, du- , d`.s><o;f?a.9ti; Difr:ere ni fcat ,ac ver- bte irterfedif- ceptare. Difcere, vClalt Socrates nihil aliadeffe prim recordari. l:ic, Tap. qua.11. D. SibSs.
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