488 Msjora certa mina majora fegantur pre.. mio. Tucul. Qutpro chrifii nomine amife- rat tribu.natum retribuente Cbri,?o aecepit imperium. Orof. Ne ererusier obdurum (..9' argentuHt; tu enine es mihi omnáa AuQ.:d: cáy áei.l. t.c. i. A Commentary upan theGo(Jiel Chap./9. day ? And if the Saints (every of them) (hall judge the Angells ; What (hall the Apo(tles do ? f irely as they absolved or condemn- ed men in this world, fo (hall it fare with them at thegeneral! juigemenr. Veife 29. Shall receive anhundredfold] In reference to Ifaackr hundred -fold increafe of his feed. Gen. 26, Ia. or that heft of grounds. Mat. 13, Ihofe that do pillage us they do bu; hufband us, fow for us, when they make long forrowes on our backs, Pfal. 126. and ride over our heads. Pfa1.66, 12, Gordis*, the Martyr ; Paid ; It is to my lolle, if you bate me any thing inmy fufrings. Crudelitaa vefranefragloria,faid they inTertullian,yourcruelty is our glory : and the harder weare put to it, the greater (hall be our reward in heaven. Nayon earth too ; the Saints (hall have their lofhes forChri(t recompenfed,either in monyor monies-worth either in the fame, or a better thing. lob had all doubled to him, Valentinian, for his tribune(hip, the Empire c..ft upon him, after IuliRn the Apoftate, who had put him out of office, for his re- ligion. CZElizabeth (whole life for a long while had been like a (hip in the midi' of an frith fea) after long reftraint was exalted from mifery toMajefty, from a prifoner to a princefíe. Optanda nimirum e.,`ljat7uraqua lucre majore penfatur,- -faith Agricola. It is, doubtleffea lovely lofle, that is made upwith fo great gain. HadQ,Elizabetb forknown, whiles the was in prifon, what a glorious raign fhe fhould have had for 44, years, (he would never have wifhed her felfa nailk. maid. So, did but the Saints under- Rand what great things abide them bothhere andhereafter, they would bear any thingchearfully. An hundredfoldbere, andeter- n dl lift hereafter : On who would not then turn (pirituall pur- chafer ? Well might St Paul fay, godlines is profitable to all things. Well might the Pfalmift fay, In doing (in fuffering) thy will, there is great reward. Not for doing it only, but in doing it : for Righteoufnes is its own reward. St Mark, bath it thus, He that leaveth houfe, brethren, fillers, father, &c. (hall receive the fame in kinde : houfe, brethren ,(ütcrs,father,&c.Thatis, I .He (hall have communion with God and his confolations, which are better then them all ; as Galeacouu chat ItalianMarque(fe that left all for Chrift avowed them : and as Paulinus Nolantas, when his City was taken by the Barbarians, praied thus to God, Lord let menot be troubled at the lode ofmy gold and flyer, for thou art all in all unto me. 2. He many tithes gives his fiiffering fervancs here
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