518 A Commentary upon the Go f ei Chap.2a. Card EL:z, the pummel! ofthc Queens faddle with poifon covertly, and as it 1598. were, doing fomethtng elf, playing with a loud voice, God the meen, &c. % That thouart true, andteacheft theway of God j Theft all are high commendations and neceflary qualifications (la teacher and irilruaerofothers. Thefe Cony- catchers tell the truthof Chrift ( for he was all this that they fay ofhim andmore) and yet they tell a lie, becaufe they thought him not fo, bat firAte againft their confciences. Tney thought, belike, to have tickled and taken our Saviour with their flatteries ( as every winde will blow up abubble, ) and fo to have had what they would of him t But Chrifc was not for their turn. He was inaduhthilis, unflat- terable, and might better fay then 71olitian did, ljfentati_ Ang.Potit epi;R, unculis querundam ant etiana obtretlationibue non magic attollor t,;yep, z:}. ant deprimor, quiten umbra mei cerporie. I am no more lift- ed up, nor cart down with mens flattrries or Handers, then with the thadow of mine own body. For I think not my fif wdo islongeror fhorter at morning, or at noon, becauf my fba- Verfe iy. Is it latrfxll ?] They make it a cafe of confci ence. Diffembled fandity is double iniquity. Coveiou . neffe goes cloaked or coloured , i They a. S. So doth malice mat rimes: but God will walla off it's varnifh with rivers of brimftone, sands his Surv, To give tribute] Kvaac, akinde of coyn proper to this pur pole. The Jews paid then to the Romans, as now they do to the Pope, and other Princesof Italy, a yearly rent for the very heads they wear. And yet how they brave it to our Savicur, and fa)', A1ß. chronot . 7eh.8. 33. We werenever in 6ondAge to anyman. And there isnot 431 p a morevainglorious people this day under heaven,then theJews, faith Allied. Verfe i 8. Wky temptye me, ye hypocrites ? J Hypocrites pre- tend Nathaneel in the skin of a Nicodemew, fair h one, of a De. mad rather, who made fair weather for a while, but at length forfook Paul, and became an idolatrous Prieff at Theffalo. pica, if Dorotheeu may be believed. Jcfus perceived thefe mens wickedneffe, and deteftcd it. So dealt Peter by Si. mon whom 'Philip took length for i ba of o dhm. All will t ; fir efe velie , nihi - que malts. Vette
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