Chap.22. according toStMATTHEVV. 5 1 Vale 14. For many are called, &c. ] With an outward cal- ling : but outwardpriviledges profit not, where thehidden man of the heart is not right, where the power and practice of godli neffe is wanting. Many a Chip path been called Safeguard, and good- !feed, whichyet Lath frlit upon therocks, or fàllrn into the bandsof pirates. Verse 15. Thenwent the l'harifees] They were, as one faith, '29 e repunti, minima tautenad refpifientiarncovpunc`ii. They were flung with the former parables, and grewmore enraged. It isa vain perfwafon for any godly man to think, by any difcretion wholly to dill and efcape the clamours and hates of wicked per- fons : Chrift himfelfcculd not do it. How they might i.ntangle hire in his talk,] As bea(ls are in the au;rjtóard,,. Hunters toil, or birds in the Fowlers nec. Every man huntet.h M:tapb. ì veaa his brother with a net, was an old complaint, Miea.7.2. And, tit onejerarure. Theymake a manan offenderfor a word, and lay a (harefor hint that f tatb`rterra reproveth in the gate, &e. Ifä. 29.21. Do&our Stories rule to quibustexdun know anherctìke was, They will fay, The Lord, and, We praif'e txr iaquei God, and, The living god. So, The Lord, and not to fay, reria. par. Our Lord, is called by Steven Jardiner, Symbolism h.eretieo- '-Et, and Moo, rum, the her :tikes badge. But God will take there wifards in 1¿'sd::1,"6. theirown craft, t (''. 3.19. he will catch thtin in their owncun oj,c,,Nív, ring, he vc ill over -shoot them in their own bow, he will take his co .prebeadenr bandfull ofthem, fo that they (hall not make efcape, as the word. CV iquaa rnand there fignifies. c9napiens.Arer. Verfc 16. With the Herodians ] i. e. Such aswere ofHerod/ re- ligion, as the Melchites, a kinae of mongrelChri[tians in the Nice horar.. Eats : fo called of ,Melech, as one would fay, Of the Kings Rea p ligion, becaufe they followed the decrees and examples of the Emperours. Some thinkethefe Hcrodians were the fame with the Publicans, or toll takers (fù Origen and Cyril) whom the Pharnfees took with them to our Saviour, as if the one cxaftcd tribute, the other ref:fed to pay, and both came toour Saviour, as to an impartial! Judge, toend the guard, and decide thecontroverfe. Mailer, we know that thou art true, &c. ], Here's a fair glove, drawn upon a foul hand. Burning lips and a wicked heart are like potfheard covered with fïlv,t droffe, Pro-v.26.23; There ate thofe that will fertile inyour face, and at fame time cut your "'throat. Sgxier, fensout of Spain to poifon ,9,z_Elizabeth,anointed.. the.
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