.C1 ap.z.i. according to St M a r E v r. 599 Verfe 3o. Igo Sir] I, but when Sir ? Stultus Temper izcip t' set. vivere. Hypocrites purpofe oft, and promife fair to do better, but drive offand fail in the performance, their morning clod is form difperft, theirearthly dew is quicilly -dried up, the 'r heart- 1 in effiies come tonothi;g,ModdZ r odo non habent modem. The taor6 Qò Philvfbpher liked not fuchasarefemperviettari, alwaies about to ,ilisulzc liv=e better, but never begin, sexcca. Verfe 3i. Go into the Kingdom of heaven beforeyou] And it were an arrant flair: to be left behinde by fur : as that's a very JAdc, we f.:y, that will not follow, though ilae will not lead the way. But thde proud Pharifèes hated to he in th,° farne hea- ven with penitent Publicans. And, as Puintilian (aid ;óffolw in his tttne, that they might have proved cxcellew fc`iolars, had they not been fo perfwadedofti,eir own fcholar(hipalready. In like fort, thefe over-weeners of themfelves might have had place inheaven, had they not taken up their feats in heaven a- fore-hand. Verfe 32. yohncameunto youirAVeav ofright] Which he -both preached and lived. No.r non eloquimrar magna, ledvivima r. fAn' practice wasa tranfcript of what he preached : he burned within himfelf, he (hone forth to others, 70b.5.35. Ye repented not afterwards] No, not after his death, though ye fawme fccenturiated to him and preachingand pretfìng the fame things upon yon that ?An did. An hypocrite comes hard- lier to heaven thena grc lie (inner, and bath far more obflacies. As hethat must be tlripped, is not foTon clothed, as one that is na- ked ; and as he climbs not a tree fo faon that Inuit fir(.} come down from the topofanot her tree, where he is perked : So is it here. Verfe 33. Planteda vineyard, andhedged it] Ofall pcifelions, faith Cato, 2 ,ulda majorera operant requirit, None requires more pains then-that ofa vineyard. Corn comes up- and grows alone, tLtar.k 4.28. Injuffavirefeuntgrawina,faith the Poet : but vines muff b:; drefled,'fpporred, pruned, íheltered every day almofì, 70%15.2. Th: Church is Gods continual) care, et4a.toal.<Qc-r, Am, putat, pt:tat,&c. Ifiì 27.3. andhe looks for an anfwerable return cffruits, AIt i 2.48. Regnum Anglia, regnant `IJei," :faid Poly- dor Virgillong since. The Kingdom of enaland is the Kingdom ofGod. It may well be fiid fo, lince the Reformation efpecially: neither is there any thing more threatnethus thenour hatefull a - L 1 fruitfulttc{fe.
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