C hap.23. aacordhsg to St M A T T H a vv. 529 good fervants fhallbe found with their fcfacienter. Chriti was full ofgrace, as well as truth. john Baprift was botha burning Ioh.4' 6. and fhining light. Origens teaching and living were Paid to be both one. That's the befc Sermon hardy, that's digg'doutof a Kai écçexctt mans ownbteft, when he prafitethwhat hepreacheth, nen ver- id}tc;s, s,iit bis glum predicans fedexemplis, as Eufebius teftifieth of Ori- .Quodjugt .. gen, and Mr Gataker of Mr Stock; As the want hereofoccafi- geffit. stern. oned Campion to write Miniftrie eorumnihil vilius, their Mi- ep 0, bittersare molt bale. Verfe4. For they binde heavy burdens, &c.] Their humane traditions : fodo the Popith Doaours (heires herein to the Pha- rifees, of whom this Sermon is not more hiftoricall, then of the other it is propheticall,) Theinferiour Clergy they make preach every day in Lent without intermifíion, throughout all Italy in thegreater cities : fo as fix daies in the week they preach on the Gotpel of the daies, and on the Saturday in honour and praifeof our Lady. Whereas the Pope and Bithops preachnot at all. So Sands his Stare, for the Laity ; they mutt fait with bread and water; when the feEt.sa Prietts have their fuckets and other fweet meats three or four times on. their mock-fait-daies. What fhould we fpeak oftheir pilgrimages to Peru, lerufalem, &c. penances, fatisfa Lions, &c. And no man mutt quettion, but obey without fcifcitation. Walter Mapes fometimes Archdeacon of Oxford, relating the Popes grofie (lawny concludes, Sit tarnenDomina materg, no- ¡raRoma baculus inaqua frAEtus, & abf:t credereque vidirrmus. In things that make againtt ourLady- Mother Rome, we maynot beleeve ourowneyes. Verfe S. To be feen of men ] Theatrically, thrafonically, and for ottentation, as ttage-players or painted- faces. See notes on, chap.6. verfe 2.5. Saints more Peek to be good, then teem to be fo. They make broadtheir Phylaaeriet] That is, Cenfervato- ries, tocalled I. Becaufeof the tie of them, the lawwas kept in remembrance. 2. Becaufe the fuperftitious Pharifees conceited, that by the wearingof them about their necks, themfelvesmight be kept from danger, as by fomany fpels : what they were, fee the Notes aboveon, Matth.22,40. Enlarge the borders of their garments ] God had charged the Pharitees tobinde the law to their hand, and before theireyes, Deett.6.8, wherein (as Hierom and Theophylatl well interpret Mm 3 it)
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