Chap.zo. according to St M A T T H E v V. nours and offices, as in Davids and Solomon; daies. Verfe 2i, What Wilt thou t ] We may not over-haflily in- gage our (elves by promite of this or that toour bell friends, but hold offand deliberate. Altogui (liens anteguam videat,cafirus Boni; et({antequamdebeat. Theone on thy right hand] .lid voveat dulci nutritula ma. ri rat. jus alumno? Our Saviour had prornifed in the former chapter that the twelve fhould fit upon twelve thrones, &c. Thefe mens fuit was for the h&c and fecond feat. Self-love makes men ambitious, and teacheth them to turn the glaffe to fee themfelves bigger, o- thersLefler then they are,Taul on the contrary, was leaft of Saints, liftofApoflles. Verfe 22. re /know not What ye ask] Yeask and mifre, becaufe ye ask =rifle. A prayer for things not la whiff, begs nothing but jam 4't' a deniall, as Mores did, in praying to enter into the land, D eut. 3.25 as fob did in that peevith requeft of his that God would let loofe his hand and cut him off; as the Difciplesdid in that o- ver-curious enquiry,Lord, Wilt thou at this time reftore the Icing- AaR r.6,7,s. dome to Ifrael ? Our Saviour anfwers, that that's not fit for them toknow. But abetter thing hecould tell them, that they fhould fhortly after beclothed which the holyGhoft. God fòmetimes in muchmercycrofleth the prayers of his poople, as he did David; for the childes life, who if he had lived, would have beenbut a [landing monument ofDavids fhame. Was it not better for him to have a Solomon ? The Saints have their praiers out, either in money or moneys-worth: provided they bring lawfull petitions and honeft hearts. ire ye able to drink of the cup, &c.] Aftlic`lions are fre- quently fet forthby this metaphor ofa cup, taken fay tome, from an ancient cuflòm that the father of the family fhould give to each under his charge a cup fit for his ufe, according to his bigneffe Or as others think, from the manner of fëafls, whereat theSym- pofiarch, or ruler of the flail-, as he is called, Joh.2. prefcribed what and howmuchevery man fhould drink. e4nd to be baptized With the baptifine] Or plunged over head and cars in the deep - waters of afliiéion. Of thefe we may fay as oneBoth of the Spa waters, that they are morewholefome then pleatant. Ever fince Chrift call his crofleinto them, as Mo- fes did that tree, ,Exod.15.25. the property of them is altered, the waters healed. k a They
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