Chap.;. according to St MA T T H is vv, 3--7 were like the Ark, without, covered with (=oats-hair, within, Sxpe Î °b attr:° all ofpure gold. God cloathed our hrft parents in leather, when euaráati:at apâ there was means of' better cloathing , to humble them, doubt.. yeller funs pea -leffe : and to thane all fuch as arcproudof their cloathes, which cart telles. are the enfigns ofour flume, and came in with fin, as it's cog- lie iiusn MHO. ni ance. frasdeforaoita. eXnda leathern girdle about his loin,.] So had Elias, and God tit mentium ..,o..' takesnoticeof it, and records it : when the pomp and pride of rs /y ici many Monarchs lie hid inobfcurity,buricd in oblivion. Such love ()eared) the Lord tohis people, that every thing in them is re- marked and regitfred. He thinks thebeter of' the very ground they goe upon, TÁ1.87.2, 3,4, 5,6. their walls are ever in his light,and he loveth to look upon the houfes where theydwell, /p.4.o.16. 14ndbit meat Was locufi. ] Thefe creatures have their name in árd,r,,, Greek f.oin the top ofthe cars ofcorn, which, as they fled, they fed upon. That they were mans meat in thole Eaftern Countries appears, Levit.a 1.22. and Pliny teilifieth as much. Courfe meat they were : but n itute is content with little, grace with leffe. y. Y Hieton.in ep. Cibtu t putts f nt divitie ('hrifianorum, faith that Father. Greenbant B cad :nd waterwith the Golpel arc good cheat-, faith another. Horar. opposit Our Saviour bath taught us to pray for bread, nor for manchet or panem tibu t7 junkets , but down right honlold bread : and himfelf gave piacenrú,üb.:, thanks for barley -bread and broiled fiches. A little ofthe creature epif, no, will ferve turn to carry Thee thorow thy pilgrimage. One told a 4dutarore Phih:fpher, I f you will be content to pleafe `Dionrftts, you need qui ollamlda. not Feed upon green herbs. He replied, And ifyou can feed upon tur. Beeman. green herbs, you need not pleafe Dioryfius; you neednot flatter, H0luaabóAoy comply, be bale, e5c. The Ancients held green herbs tobe good Prifci nàbit eb- chear : and accounted it wealth enough, ur; d',jn`.c ry,i,w,ì eiyzr, fon4 jlbi deeße not to beth rely, nor cold, faith cyalen. But what mifcreants m done datlfet were thof. Jews that for aUteiAs, locufts, read +yreJis, fwect- bolus. meats, as Epiphanitunoteth againft the Ebionites. The bctf, we fee,are liable tobe bebed. AndWilde honey, ] Such as naturally dilltilled out of trees; as did that whichYonathan tailed with the tipofhis rod, called how ney ofthe wood, a Sam. 14.27. Godmade lelbsrsn fuck honey out of the rock, andoil out of the flinty rock, Deut.12.13. Hence Judea was called, Stamen totiau orbis. And Strabo, that- fpitefully Heidfetdinr. aflìrmeth it to be a dry, barren countrey, hadnot fo much inge- Lib. 16. D 3 nuity
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