Chap.17. -aecording to St M A T T x E VV. anfwer their adverfaries, who had now (port enough to fee them . brought into the briers,and therefore jeered them before the people mad.9.i . to fòme purpofe. Molt opportunely therefore if ever, comes Chri{t to their fuccour, as is were out of an engine, and both cures the childe and confounds the Pharitees. His late honour hindred him not from doing his office : his incomparable felicity made him not forget poor 7ofep s mitery. He knewhe was much with- ed andwaited for,and therefore makes hafte from the mount to the multitude. Kneeltn, down to him] Someundertland the word of fuch an humble gesture of catching the party petitioned by the knees or feet, as the Shunammite ufed to the Prophet, the Shularnite her fpoufe,and Thetis to Jupiter, when floe fued to him in her foes behalf. 5 Or, hehath the falling ficknefle, Verfe t 5. For he iQ lunatica] as the fÿmptoms thew. A common difea{e,but(befrdes that) the de vil was in it. The old manflayer makes advantage of our natural' humours (which are therefore the bath of the dcv,l, and the bed of difeafes) to exerci {e his cruelty upon thepoor. crea:ure by divine permifliion: feeking by the infirmities ofthe body to bring fin upon the foul. For oft timei. befalls into the fire,&c.] Thedevil pulhing_hiin in,as it were,todeftroy him,but could not. He is limited, andcan not doe as he would, elfe he would tòon end us. It God chaftite us Lu Zf7f catCY7æ with his ownbare hand, or by men like our felves, whip us as it (imanæ, were privately and at home, let's thankhim, and thinkour felves 19"r `eSaran far better dealt with, then if he moulddeliver us up to thepublike ræ Pareus.. officer, to this tormentour to be fc :urged with scorpions at his pleature. The wicked he of calls into the fire.of lull, and water of drunketrntffe,and they complainnot: like a fleepy man ( fire burn- ing in his bedtlraw) he cries not our,whenothers haplyluntnç his cafe that fee atasoff, butc,annot-help him.. It bath fèc,hirn "ñn fire, round about, yet heknewit not anclit burned-bins, yet be laved it i-t to be art,lia.42.25. Sec Prov.a3,34 35. Verfe 16. And they couldnot cure him a . The prayer of faith would have healed the fick,.lam Luthers as prayer reco- vered agodly Divine (.chat was far gone-in a contum.ption, and gi ven up for a dead'. iriarì by. the Phyfitìws ) beyond all expefta- tion. Ifte vir potuit quod valssit, faithone of him. That man by the force of his faith,could doe whatfoevet he would withGod, Fiat, 455
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