Chap.24. according to St M A T T H E V v. 145 5,36.37. Barchocab and others ofold, who Were miferablyflain by the Romans. So one Moore, in K. Edward thefxths time, :f'i1' Ant's' took upon iLim to be Chrift : So did Placket in Elizabeths tib cal Z, p dNfrG.r.c,:o, time, David George likewile and others in Germany : that I zee tel lud.tl. fay nothing here of Paphos, who defperately deny the Lord that a cap. aa. bought them, and wickedly let up Antichrift inhis {lead ( as were eafie toprove,) who oppofeth him not fo much in his nature or perfoni as in his union and fundtion, and thenceallohath RA oxP; -°r;' non his name. r,'9sos. Verfe 6. See that 'pou benot troubled] Or frighted, as foul- diers are by hidden alarme. ,Quid timer hcninem horno in fins deipofitts ? David was undaunted, Pfal.3.6. & 27.3. He look- 6".4, ed not downward on the milling and roaring ffreamsof dangers that ran fó fwiftly under him, for that would have made him giddy : But fledfaftly faffned on the power and promife of God All-sufficient, and was fate. So at the lack of Ziglag. i Sam.30.6. Verse 7. Fer nation (hall rife, &c.] See here the wofull affeets ofrefufng Gods free offers of grace. They that would have none of the Gcfpel of peace, shall have the miferies of warre. They that loathed the heavenly Manna, shall be hunger- flarved, They that despised the only medicine of their foules, (hall be vilited with the peflilence. They that would not fuffer heart quake, flail fuffer earthquake. Or as that Martyr expreffeth it. They Bra,Tod, that trembled not in hearing, (hall be crufht to peeces in feeling. As they heap op firne, to they trealure up wrath : as there hath been a conjunâure of cffences, fo there (hall beoftheir miferies. Theblack horn. is at the heels of the red, and the pale of the black, Rev.6.4. God left not Pharaoh, that rfurdy rebell, till he had beaten the breath out of his body : nor will he ceafe purfuing menwill his plagues, one in the neck of another, till they throw the traytours head over the wall. Ver e 8. Ad thefeare the begionin ,&c.] q,d. There yttre- main far worfe matters then wane,- famine, peflilence, earth- ,9dl,ucrefant quakes. And yet warre is as a fire that feeds upon the people, ,eravi fl i par. I/à.ry, a9,2o, Famine is far worse then chat, Larn.4 9. Peitilcnce tus "1"2"" is .Gods evil Angel, Pfat,78,49i5o. Earthquakes are wondrous terrible, and deffruclive to whole. cities, as to eXntiochofold, and toPleurs in Imia alate, where fifteen hundred men perish- cd together. A conflux of all these abides the contemners of 1na:o,xu,s, N n 3 Chrífts
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