Chap.21. according to St M A T T H fl VV. femèl videatur verax, nsilliès eft mendax eh- temper fallax. Sa- tan never fpeaks truth, but with a minde to deceave. Verle 12. eXnel cuff out all them that föld ] The zeal of Gods houle did ever eat him up. And (as revenge follows zeal z Car. 7.11.) he marrs their markets, and drives them out of the Tern- !n Gr.eco,u, 503 ple with Procul ó procul ofe profani. And this deed of our Sa- /acne /acordos viours was altogether divine; whiles, as another Sampfoa, he 7úc uL'hicnÇ laies heaps upon heaps (yet without bloodfhed) with the jaw- xc;ondeb.cnt boneofan affe. St Hierom extolleth this miracle above the raifing qui adtraxt, of Lazarus, refloring the blind to their fight, the lame to their 7r 01 T' äya. limrnes, &c. and adds this myfticall fenfeofthe text. uotidiè 90` r lef us ingreditur Tem P lum Patrio, & ejicit amass ram E i í co of s'rdac pr afat.ix & Presbyteros, quart; laicos univerfam turban; de Ecclefia `g. & 041144 criminis habet, vendentes paritèr ernentes,Chrift is every day calling out of his Church all thefe mony.marchants, thefe facrilegious fimonifts, both minifters and others, that make eeesexaa tab. faleof holy things, which the very Heathens abhorred, and others long fincecomplained, that benefices were bellowed non obi opti- mè, fed ubi qu,eftu®jfftmè, as if a man fhould bellow fo much . bread on his atke, becaufe he is to ride on him. The tables of the mony-changers ] This he did alto at his firft entrance into the miniftry, loh.2.1415. See my notes on that text. The Reformation of Religion was Chrifls chiefcare, and fo it fhould be ours : And although little was doneby his firft at- tempt loh.2, yet he tries again; fo fhould we; contributingwhat wecan to the work continually, by our prayers and utmoft indea- vours : wifhing at leaf%, as Fetus did, that we had fome Afofes jxo;f.3:.z®, to take away the evils in Church and ftate. Nonenim untem ran- turn vitulum, fedmates habemus, faith he ; for we abound with idols, and evils. Verle 13. Shall be called the houfe of prayer] A principal) pieceofGods publike worfhip, andhere plat for the whole. Chrift himfelfnever came into this houle, but he preached ofwell aspray-' ed. In the Sanftuary was the incente-Altar in the middle, a type of prayer, the table of Phew-bread on the onefide, betokening the twelve tribes ; and the candleftick, a typeof theword,on theo- ther a To teach us that. there is a necellity ofbothordinances to all Gods people. But ye have made it a den of theeves] So Chrift calleth not the mony-marchants only, but the. Netts all() that let them a. work..
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