r,,_A_ 458 A Commentary upon the Gl t.1 Ch a man on whom Chrift looked and loved him. p 7 commended the Popes Legate Yet, as when on ne the Emperour anfweed, TamentRaanteof Comet! of though Sighe ded de- vil or his {laves feein never fofair conditioned, they are eith rto 5ina.2. be likednor trultd : he is a devil (till, and will do his kinde: they }, i3, are wicked 1fí11, andwicktednejje proceedeth fon, the wicked, as faith theProverb oftheAncients. I have read °font. that would haunt the taverns, theatres and whore-houfes in London durtf not go forth without private praier in thealmorning, ho M. roerdr thenwould fay at his departure, Now -devil do thy g: and w.,- fo ufed his praiers as charms and fpels againfl the weak, cowardly devil. vcrtPa3i This wasnot thatpraier andVfallin.= off; men muff not go forth to this f3irivail fight, 4APvaks a.ith their 6real-faß, as the Çreciant in Homer, t yi a=s, failing from fin efpecially : for otherwifè they 'but praying and dleafore the devil, as the Proverb hath it. y dO but light a arm Verfe 22. TheSonne ofman fha/l 6e detray'd] This our Savi- our often inculcates, to drive them out of their golden dream clan earthly kingdom: which pleafed them fo well, that they could hardly foregoeit. It is no eafie matter to be difabufed, undeceived : errour once admitted is not expelled without much adoc. It flicks to our fingers like pitch : take heed how we meddle. Verf. 23. And they were exceeding frrjj out of love to their tl,rk 9.áS. Lord, faith Hierom, out of ignorance and liupidity, faith Saint Luk,g.y f., LMar&and S. Lute : fc they grieve where no caufe was as we do oft upon like grounds and caufes. Howwell might our Savi- our have laid to them, as afterwards he did to the women, grieve not Or roe, but grteveforyourfelves Th:y knewwell that ifChrift fu. red, they (hotldnot (cape fcot free, Hine ill lachry. me. We fhrink in the ¡boulder when called to catty the croft-, and pretend this and that for excufe, as Mofesdid the confcience of his own infilfheiency, Exod.4. i o. when the very truth War, ht±.feared Pharaoh, left he would have revenged the c E yptians cluarrell againit him, whom he Lad (lain, and hid in the find a Andas Peter cretended his dear love to his Maffer, Math t 6.22., hen it appears,ver.26.he aimed indeed at the f fegard of hisown life,more ther,<'i is Mailers fafe y. Let care be taken, that ( what ever we male believe) we be not felf- lovers ( which be- gins that black-bedroll, 2 rit;;othy 3.2.) and livers of- plea- fares,
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