Chap.23. accordingtoStMAr T H E vV, íionewithout, and gold within, to thew, faithone, the refplen- dent glory of divineMajefty, lurkingwithin a humaneand horn- bled body. dcii ternpli ayrumfiveaure. clarime,nrf addex- tram patriafedeatis immortaiitasat impahtbilitu ? faith Ruperttas,, What is the gold of the Tempie, out the glory of Chriti at Gods right hand ? Verfe a 8. But Who f everficearetb by thegift, &c.] Obi utiliras, ibi pietas, faith EpiEletus, where there is gain, there is godliacff. And, Deosquif fbiutilescudit, faith another, All the world- hugs plowing, failing, building, buying, buts upon commodity, he knows noother deity. Tht fe Pharilces ]trove to reduce all of- ferings to their own pucks and paunches, though they rendred men thereby not only irreligious, but unnatural!, Mat, a 5.5, 6. Sec the Notes there. Verle i9. re fools andblinde] The fecond time fo. For be- hold they have rrjeited the word ofthe Lord (yea the Word, the Lord Chri{t) and what wildernwas in them ? yer.8.9.True it is, they were accounted theonly wife men : Where it the wife, Where ù the Scribe ? faith S. `Paul, As ifwifeand Scribe were terms convertible. And for the Pharifees, they did fo carry a- way thehearts ofthepeople, that there was no holy man that was not termed a Pharifee, as we finde in their Talmud. And, after the molt fl'raites`l fed} cfour religion, I livedaPhari,e, faith Paul, A&.26.5. Theywere omnium diflric`lifroi, and did utterly out-thine and oblcure tholeother feças of Saoduces and Effenes, the later whereofare not fo much as mentioned in theGofpel Andyet we fee what efteetn Chritt had of them, and what titles he herebellowsupon them : To teach us not to lei} in mars ap- applaufe, nor to think it fu icient that others think well of us. But let every man prove his own work , Galt, 6. 4, and know, that not he that corrnends himfeif, or is com- mended by others,is approved, but he whom the Lord commend- eth, 2 Cer.io,i8. Vetle 20. Whofö therefSreflailfiroear ] It was not la;,'full to fwear by the altar, or by any creature whatfaever, ?er.5.7. (much leffeby idols, e,fmos8.14. I my felt, faith Latimer, have ufed in mint earneft matters to fay, Yea by S. Mary; which indeed is naught.) But though thefe oathsbe formally naught, yet they are Serm.in 3.5 e Ì g y . y, in ,advent. finally binding: andbeing broken they are platn perjury, bccauf Pieri bon debug they arc all reduced to God hitnfelf, no other wife then if they it/cc:Own valer, had 535 Mcfes unveiled o<eird ñ 47,4A9á. w ì;xer zì; tiv ogss. t Cor. a.
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