_.--- Chap.19. accord'tvng to S` M A T T L'i AVIV. 483 of one, man of theother. And as they meet together in the perfonof Chrift, to mutt. they be united in the affections and en. deavours of aChrittian. . Verfe 19. Thou 'halt love thy neighbour ,&c.] Which becaufe thou doett not (as appears becaufe thou wilt not part with thy pofheflìons to relieve the poor,) therefore much 1efle doett thou love God, and therefore art not the man thou caked thy fell for. Civil men overween themfelves, and boaft of their morali righ- teoufnelfe : yet make no confcience of the lcfter breaches of the fecond table, nor yet ofcontemplative wickedn:f%, whichyet au- greth God, Gen 6,6. and lets in the devil, 2 Cor, to. And thefe are the worlds very honef men, for lack of better : as a cab of doves-dung was dear meat in the famine ofSamaria, wherebet- tercould not become by. Verfe 20. Ag thefe things have Ikept] Lie and all : as now the Popifh Pharifees dream and brag that they can keep the Law, and (pare. They can do more then, then any that ever went be- fore them, Pfal 143.3. lob 15.14.7ano.3.2.0ecolampadiu -s faith, that noneof the Patriarchs lived out a full thoufand years ( which is anumber ofperfeEtion) to teach us, that here is noperfection of piety. David, heart fmote him for doing that which Saul highly commended him for. What lack, I yet ? ] Gr. Wherein am Iyet behindeltitb God ? He thought himfelf fotnewhat aforehand, and that God, belike, was in his debt. Trudy many now-a daiesgrow crooked anda- ged with over-good opinions ofthemfdves, and can hardly ever be fet right again. They Rand upon their compariföns, I am as good as thou : nay upon their diffbrims, I am not as this 'Pub - lican. No,for thou art work; yea for this, beceufe thou think- eft thy fì_lf better. This arrogant youth makes good that of Ari- ftotle, who, differencing 'between age and youth, makesit a pro- perty of young men, to think they know all thitags, and to af- firm luttily their own placits. He fecretly intuits over our Savi- our as a triviall teacher, and calls for a lecture beyond the Law, worthy therefore to have been fènt to Anticyra : fùrely as when D rufit,. in his defence again[ a nimble Jefuite that called him he- re:ick, alledged that herefïe muft be in fitndamentis fidei, the J fuite replied that even that affertion was herche : So when this young man affirmed that he had ever kept the Commandments, and askedWhat last;, Iyet f Chrift might well have hid, thouarc therfrT. ,4rrozantixi mendarium ne mo homixurn de Se dixit. P ì2'fu5 Injlienem hypo. critam egla natur. tb. 73 IT rizqcá, 7IC.r7LGes' Anse öre9arxa,t d'a %6;eo3v.<.
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