Chap.3. aicordirog to SC MATT fi $ va. 33 have well obferved.) i. To fuch as are fct apart to angular fanai- mony,as thehigh. Prielt,whofte crown is called Nezer,Exo.29.6. 2.To filch as in dignity and authoritya-e fet above others,asKings, whof diadem is called Nczer,2 Sam, t. to. 3. To loch as were fe- parated by fore religious vow, as to the order oft he Natarites, whofe hair encreafingon their heads, as an external' agn of their vow, was called Nezer, Numa.6. i d. As for our Saviour,it is not likely that he heurifhed his hair ; becaufe the Apofile faith (in thatage) it was u^comely Fir men tohave long hair.] t was enough for him, that he was a Natariee, in the truth and fabitance of that Lave; and a lingular comfort it is ro us, that although we havebro- ken our vows, and fo deeply gafhed our confciences, as 7acoddid, yet fo long as tt is cfinfirmity and forget fulneffe, not of obftinacy and malicioufneffe, this famous Nazarite, this arch- votary, bath expiated ()Jr defaults in this kinde ; and throughhim we are in Gods fight, as IcrufalmsPlazarites, Lam.4.7. Purer then thefirow, andWhiter then the milk And therefore fith God thinks not the worfeofus, let no.e us think the worfe ofour felves, f.;r the invo- luntaryviolation ofour vows. z Cons s.t4 Grn.z8so,3tc. withchap.31. r'. CHAp.III. Vet fe t . In t bofe dates came Iokn theRaptifl. ] Hom Chrylogaufitly cilleth, fbula, legit &gratia, the la/ V bond or buckle of both Tetlamencs. He ftandeth, as that Angel, with on: foot on the lea (the law) and with the other foot on tire land(thc Gofpcl.) Preaching in the WilaernefTe of Iudea, ] A place, wherein we finde fix cities with their. villages, 7ojb, e 5.6t. But called a wil- derntge, becaufe more thinly inhabited. In which fenfe wemay fay ofGermany, that Acheldanea or field of&oud, and many other once rich and fertile countries, that they are become a wilder- neffe, warre being a tragedy that alway dcfïroieth the ftage whereon it is aced : but for the reickedne ffe ofthem that dwell there- in it is, that a frxit fullland it turnedinto a Wilderneffe, faith David. And the Heathen hiflorian faith little l ffe, when he tels us that the ruine and rubbifhofTroy, are fet by God before the eyes of men, for an example cf that rule, that, Great firnes have great jss i(7,mcnts. Revel. Pfal 107 ?4. Iam;eges e¡i ubi T o:ajuit. Elerodcct
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