40 t4 Commentary upon the Gofÿel Chap;3. Debit lege Jo_ Verfe 7 Bret When he fin, many of the Pharifees and Sadduces. ] feph de bello. Two leading fensamong the J ws, but notablehypocrites, yet f r, prefling to the ordinances. A Doegmay fct his foot as far within Anti/ 9 the Sanetuar as a David, and let him. He may be caught, as thofe oa8, 17.. Y Y g catch-poles fent to apprehend our Saviour,as Satels meffcngers co- ming tcNaiotbwere turned from ex :cutioncrs toProphets:Come (faith Larymer) to the holy Aflemblies, though thou come( to fl:ep ; for s;od,perhaps,may take thee napping. HePaid auto them, Ogeneration of vipers ] Or adders, which arc outwardly fpccicus, inavardly poifonous : fo are all hypo - crites a meer cut-tide : but God will wath c ff their paint with rivers ofbrim[tone. Of theviper it is laid, that when he hash flung a man, he makes halle to the water, and drinks or dies for ir. So did thefe Pharifees, to baptifine , hoping, by the work done, to avoid the wrath tocome, But a man m iy goe to hell with an his face: unleflr with the water cf baptifine [ egirpr de qua. he have grace to quench the fiery darts ofthedevil : as that holy Janílavtr- virgin, whereof Lutherreports, that (he beat back Satans tem- gine.qux quo- ptations with this only argument, Iam a Chriffian. The enemy lies tentabarar, quickly underftood ( faith he) the vertue of baptifine, and the Ron nifi bapr j value ofthat vow, and fled from her. There are that boalt and roo fàorepug- bear themfelves boldon their Chrilendeme; but bath not many a nabar,dicers l'revijfunr,chri. fhip, that bathbeen named Safi-guard and Cáodifiieed, mifcarri- flianafern. !n ed at fea, or fallen into the hands of pirates ? This generation of rcllerit eniae vipers conceited themfelves tobe Abrahams feed : fo doe manyof 'h#4141i41 flatios the Serpents feed now adaies, becaufc oftheir baptifine ; but all yirttuemba- in vain, unlcff they walk in the fteps of that faith of our father prfai f r; ab Abraham. Theold Serpent bath flung them, neither is there any dee,y ea. Luther, antidote for fuch, but the flefh ( not of the bitingviper, but) of ßo.e the (lain Mefftah, fore- fhadowed by the brazen Serpent. See eneuosi derived Ida z7. r , God hash promlfed to breal¿for au the Serpents head,who `t Onex a vt- bath fo deeply fet his firm in us : yea, with his fore, and great pC1' and&wag [word, topunifh Leviathan that piercing Serpent, and today thedragon that is in thefea. H yv,clä Whobathfore- warnedyor d] Who bath privily and under-hand, icu/un, índica asit were, (hewedyou, and fet you in a caurfe of avoiding the vie (g' adrno danger, that hangs over your heads, as by a twined thrced. The mein , wrathofGod is revealed from heaven,and hell bath enlarged her [elf, and even gapes foryou : whogave you an inkling thereof,and fent you hither forhelp,errc? ìFron!
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