5.08 Arenáacio no dont recant quenzrolvere fine impietate vetpericalo 7304poffsnt, P..ret3.4 Li+IOG. Bell de Tuft if. ti cap.at. Bron Annal. Commentary upon the Goff.el Chap .2 any tuch idle quettion as this ? do ye not o cro ences herein ? ffe to your confci: . Verfe 26. we fear thepeople] Leff they fhould be (toned, and the people feared them, left they fhould be excommunicated, hash torment, I 7 mutual' executioners one to another : for all f ar Verfe zy. we cannot to ] Lie and all: they could tell, and would not. Their reafonings within themfelves, verf2g. tefli- fie that they knew the truth, but would not acknowledge it ; they profeffe their ignorance rather : And fuch dealing we have from many learned Papifts. Thus Eel/as-mime allirmeth that he never read in all the Biblea promife of pardon made tothole that con- feflé theirfinns :to Almighty God. Baronius cannot fee that Pe- ter was in fault at Antioch, but Paula great deal more, for taking him up for halting, Gal. 2. The wit of hereticks will bet- ter ferve them to divife a thoufand fhifts to delude the truth, then their pride will fuffer them once to yeeld and lubfcribe to it. Verfe 28, But What thinkyou ? ] Chrift reporteth himfelf to their own confciences, whiles he proveth John Baptifts miniftry to be from heaven, by the happy fucceffe he had in converting the vileft (inners; fee Ier.a 3.22. t Cor.9.2. The peoples fruitfulneffe is the Minifters teftimoniall, 2 Cor.3.a. If but one of a city, or twoof a family be gained to g od, it is a figue that the Pailours are according to Gods own heart, Ier.3.14,15. Verfe 29. Iwill ] This is the languageof moft mens hearts, when preit to duty : and, as occauion ferves, they dikover an headftrong wilfullneflle in wicktdneffe, that is uncouncellable, As Pharaoh let not down under the miracle, but fent for Magici- ans : fo do thefe, when the word comes dote to their confciences, fend for Carnal' arguments. And though the word doth eatup all they can fay, as Mofes rod did : yet they harden their hearts with Pharaoh, they brazen their brows with him in the text, chat laid I Will not : Nay faid the Ifraelires but Ice' iill have a King.And as for the word that thou haft fpoken unto us in the naine of the Lord, We will not harl'n unto thee, Paid thole; Jer. 44.t 6. But afterward he repented ] So dobut few. Men ,willbe as big as their words, though they die for ir, left they fhould be ac- counted inconftant. Thefe are niggardlyof their reputation, but prodigal' of theirfouls. Verfe
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