502 spec.bel Jac. Fuáent. Que vultoos nia'redigere in ordi,ve:at, (9. patblicæ tran- guillitatiimpìjs confillsmederi. Luth. A Commentary uponthe Go(frel Chap.zl,, tendance to policie (faith one) chete fa the AffeuponChrift, not Chrift upon the Afle. Thus did 7ehu, and before him Ieroboam, cui gravior jaElura regiones gown religions. This do all cttr Machiaveïlians and the worlds wifards, whole rule is, Philorj- phandum fed paucis Religiofm oportet efe, fed non religen- tem, &c. But what faith a Father ? Deumfquispare n metuit, valde contemnit. And, one thing, Paid Luther, that will be the ruineofreligion isworldly policy, that would have all well howe- ver ; and reeks to procure the publike peace, by impious and on- lawfullcounfels and courfes. Verfe 8. And a very greet multitude] Bondinne faith, he was met at this time by three- hundred-cheufand Jews, Tome whereofwent aforeChrift, fome followed after; according to the folemn rites and reverence ufed to be given to earthly Kings, in their moft pompous triomphes. This was the Lords own work. Verfe 9. Hojnna to the Sonne of David] So they acknow_ ledg Chrift to be the true Mefliah, and congratulate him his king- dom over the Church; and yet a few-dales after, there fame, at the inftigation of the Priefts and Pharifees, cry Crucifi, : dealing by Chrift as Xerxes did by his fteerfman, whom he crowned in the morning, and then took offhis head in the afternoonof the fame day : or as the fickle Ifraelites dealt by David, 2 Sam.2o. where we (hall finde the fame hands that erewhile fought for Da- vid to beall theirs, donow fight againft him under the foil ofBi- chri, to be none of theirs. Verfe io. Who is this ? ] Why ? could not they tell after fo many miracles done among them? Were they Inch ftrangers at fernfàlem ? Many live and dye very tots, even in thofe places where theyhave had line upon line, precept uponprecept, &c. and yet they areno wirer then the child new Weaned Porn the breafi, Ip.29.8. their wits ferve them not infpirituells, though other- wifefhrcwd enough. Verfe I I. The Prophet of Nazareth, &c.] The Arch-prophet they acknowh:dge him ; but of Nazareth, of Galilee. They had not profited fo much, or madefo far progreffe in the myftery of Chrift as to know him to have been born a Bethhhemite. And tonourifh this errour in the people it was, that the devil, that old Impoftour, Mar, I. z4.. though he confeffed Chrift tobe the Ho- ly one ofGod, yet he callech him 7e / s of Nazareth. Satañ etfi mel
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=