548 A Commentaryupon theGo(Pel Chap.a ,, Matti). 13. 43. Caleb was not difcour2ged by the Ei- ants , and therefore had Hebron the place of the Giants : fo thofe that holdout in the way ofheaven, fhall bei furb to have hea- ven. Thomxt San - Paulin at Parr, a young man of eighteen years, being in the fare,was pluckt up again upon the gibbet, and lia awl Mon.. asked whether he would turn 2 To whom Lc faid, That he was lot. s Lg. in his way toward God, and therefore defined them to let him goes That Merchant of Parts hiscafe was nothing fo comforta- ble, who for jelling at the Friers, was by them condemned to be hanged : But he, to fave his life, wascontent to recant, and fo he did. The Friers, hearing ofhis recantation, commended him, filling, Iibecontinued fo, he fhould be laved. And fo calling upon theofficers, cauld them to make halle to the Gallows to abs'd¡0!,83 r, hang himup, while he was yet in a good way (laid they) lea he fall again. Verfe 14. For a witnef e unto ail Niitiont ] Whileff, with Molar, it l3aieth the czgyptian, faveth the Ifraelite; is a favour oflife to fame, ofdeath to others ; who mall be left without ex- cafe by theGofpel preached to them, as thofe that by their ob. ffinacy have wilfully cut the throats of their own poor fouls, re- flaring tobereformed, hating to be healed. Sure it is that the lalk fntence í'ball bebut a more manifeff declaration of that judge- ment, which the Lord in this life, moil an end, by his word bath palled uponpeople. . . Verfe 15. The abomination of deflation] That is Antichrili ,fay fotne Interpreters;and hitherto may fitly be referred that of Bare.. niut;who in his Antmis of theyear 964. reckning up fume Popes monfiroufiy wicked,he calleth thicm,The abominationof deflation ring avorient ftandingin gods Temple. Others underftand it of the Roman Ea- (euniLawton. gles or Enfigns. Others of the Etnperour Caitu his liatue, faid rnodu' raipeü- by Tome to be fet up in the Santluary. As others again of Tittts teredixit. 1d his piaure placed there, hich haply was that one great fin that autem quid ef- fo troubled him upon his death-bed. But they do bell, that un- net non aperuit, der(tand the text r fehofeabominable authours of defolation, the nee qua/,tuan certónoit,oti- Roman Armies ; who kid wafle that pleafant Land, and de- udat scenjieia. firoy'd the Nation; as, befides what 'Daniel fore-told , is let e tPbrts llio in forth by Iafephis at large in his fixeh and f:venthbook, De bel- zita Titi. to Tasdaico. T'hof readeth let himenders and ] Let him ffrive to doe fo by reading with ut.tLaft, attention, diligence anddevotion; weeping as
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