___---------- Chap.i 8. deeordirIg to Se MA r r at a v r. 46S that towndid conjure up thole damnable doubts in her foul. When therefore corruption boiles, and thou art ready to run into fome reproachfuil evil, think the name ofChrift, and thy poor brothers foul lies proftrate before thee. And wilt thou trample upon that, and thrattle this? It ',tuft needs be that offences come] By Gods permiflion, Si- MCC. de bert -, S tans malice,and mans wickednes: Venenum ali uandópro remod;o 9 taD.a,oapa8. it. God oft draws good out"of evil,as wine draws a nourifh ing vertue from the fie4h of ferpents : as the skilfull Apothecary, of the poi(onfull viper,makech an wholefome triacle,a Cor.1 1.19. Verfe 8. if thy hand or thy foot offend thee;&c.] Chap.5.29, so. Our Saviour forbids all his to defile themfelves with the filth alit), here tooffend others thereby. See the notes there. Verfe 9. Nock it ant] This is the circumcifion of the heart, themortification of earthly members which is no leffe hard to be done, then for a manwithone hand tocut off the other : or to pull out his own cies, and then rake in the holes where they grew. And yet, hard or not hard, it mull be done : for otherwi(e we are utterly undone for ever. Hypocrites, as artificiali jugglers, feem to wound themfelves, but do not : as ftage.players, they feem to thruft themfelves through theirbodies, whereas the fword pafTeth only through their clothes. But the truly religious letsout the life-blood of his beloved tufts, laies them all dead at his feet, and burns their bones to lime, as the King of Moab d d the Kingof Edam, Amos 2.1. As 3ofhuab put down all the Casa.eniter, fo doth grace all corruptions. As A' depofed his own mother,fo Both this, the mother finne. It deftroies them notby halves, as Saul, but hews them in pieces before the Lord,as Samuel. Verfe a o. Takeheed that ye de bife not,&c.] Gr. Look to it if you do, a foul mifchief is towards you. Look to it asyou tender ;frt. 7lJrtJ your own fafety here, or falvation hereafter. Cali not theìeaft c9 D7eL1p,i3ll contempt uponChrifts littleones. As little as they are, they have vet:wt. a great champion, Ifa.37.1a,23. and fo many Angels to right than and fight for them, that a man had better anger all the witches in theworld,thenoneof there littleones. I tell you, (Ofne great ones have been fain tohumble themfelves, and to lickthe ve- ry dult of their fett fotnerinles, that theymigratbe reconciled to them, 1[4.60.14. If Cain do :lot lowreupon Abel, God will ar- raign him for it. Why is Eby countei.xtace ca t down,j-c? Wray G-e.s dolt look todoggedly ? if i;liri x dobut me:vet' aPa:nl ¿ *ílies f is 3 t.odß;
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