498 A Commentaryupon theGo¡el Chap. 2o. was for them that, though blind, yet they were not d eaf. Foras death came in by the ear, fo doth life. Hear and your fouls thall live Ifa.55.3 a heavy ear isa fingular judgement, Ifü.6.1o. a hearingear a fpeciall favour, Prov.2o. I a. when God flrook Za- chary, Lukt. he made him dumb, but not deaf. When God ftrook Saul, he made him blind, but nor deaf. When God ftrook Mephibofheth he made him lame, but not deaf. There is a deaf I aik.9 .c. devil, and a deafadder, anddeaf man, that yet want for no ears, S 4 1fæ.43,8. But he that heareth infirsalion is in the way o li faith Solomon. Thefe two blind beggers had heard of Chriíf by the hearingofthe ear,but that fatisfied them not, unleffe their eyes alto might fee him, lob42.5. They way-lay therefore the Lord of light, whogives them upon their luit, both tight and light, irra- diates both organ and objec`f, cures them oftheir both outward and inward ophthalmies at once. Thou fin of David] They knew and acknowledged Chrift to be the true Meffias. Few fuchknowing blind beggers now adaies. They are commonly more blinde in minde then body, loofe and láwleffe vagrants ; fuch as are neither of any Church, norcom- mors-wealth : but as the baler fort ofpeople in Smethland, who doalwaies break the Sabbath, Paying that 'cis only for gentlemen to fanaifie it : Or rather as the poor Brafihian,, who are Paid to be fine rege, lege, fide, without any government, law, or Religion. Verfe 3 I. And the multitude rebuked them] In prayer, we muff look to meet with many rubs, and difcouragemencs; but Gods fpirit is heroike, and gets over them all. The devil will in- terrupt us, as the Pythoniffe did Paul, AEZ. 16.16. as the birds did Abraham, Gen. i 5. t r. as thofe Samaritans did the Jews in building theTemple, Nehem, 6. Hence we are bid Strive anpray - sr, Colof.4.2. and watch in prayer : for Satan will be at our right hand as at IehoJbuahs, Zach.3, r. watchinghis time tocalf in,if not a profane,yet an impertinent thought, thereby tobereave us of the benefit ofour prayers : beides our own natural! indevo- don through hardneffe of heart, heavinefie of body, multiplicity of worldly diftraefíons and difturbancies." All which we mutt break through and cry the more earneffly as Bartimaru here did, though checkt by the multitude. Havemercy on us, o Lord,ci-c. oros,inVa a; Daniel would not be kept from his God` for anydanger ofdeath, Ian,6 : not the French Proteffants reffrainprayer, though King Henry
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