4191111111.1111 550 A Commentary upon theGo#el Cho yet life for aprey ( though we havenothing elfe ) in a common calamity is a fingularmercy. 4 living dog is better then adead lion, faithSolomon. The9ibeonites, to fare their lives, fubtnitted to the=melt offices c being hewersofwood, &e. Skim r skin, &c. lob2.4. Wefhouldbe content to facrifice all to the fervice ofour lives. Verle z9. Woe to them that are With chille, &c. ] By the laws ofNations, women with childe, babes and fucklings, maids and old folk should be fpared. But the bloody (word eft knows no diffrence, as Hof1°44. the mother was dallied in pieces upon her children, Hof.i 3. z 6, their infantswere dallied in pieces, and theirwomen with childe ript up. Soat the fack of Magdeburg by Charles the fifth,andofMerindol in Franee by Mineritu . andMon. thepaps ofmany womenwere cut off, and their childreu,look ng [Assle At for fuck at their mothers brat}, being dead before, died alto for hunger. Many filch barbarous butcheries have been a4:fed lately in Ireland, andbegin tobe alfonow in England (poor England,now an Ireland!) as at Bolton InLancaflire lately. Help, Lord,or thy fervant perifheth. Verle 20. Bat prayye] Chrift faith not, Fight ye, but pray ye. To fight itboots not : for God bath refolved the lands ruine : But praiers are Bombarda &inflrumenta hellica Chriltianorum, as Luther bath it, the great guns andartillery ofChriftians, where_ by they maybatter heaven, andmake a breach upon Gcd himfelf.'- `n Fletlitnr iratt s vecerogante Dem. Something God will yeeld to thepraiers ofhis people, evenwhenhe feems moll bitterly bent, and unchangeably refolved againfl them. Chrift here bids them %.;!ha ßeÿ n pray, that their flight fell not out in the Winter, when the daies Inef Hyenas. are thort, waies foul, and all leffc fit for filch a purpofe. Nor on Brm4qg q. the Sabbath ; when though it were lawful! enough, be fo mach themore uncomfortable. This they re bidto pray ux,i. a ñ above thirty y years before the City was befieged. And they had what they praid for. Their flight wasnot inwinter, for the liege began about £after, and the City was taken inSeptember. Neither was it on the Sabbath-day, as we have caufe to believe : for when Chrifl bids as pray for any thing, it's fare he means to bellow it. As when we bidour children ask us thisor that, it is becattfe we mean togive it them. ïzuvxa¡ r.ÿ. '',"``a 1 f1S. Verle a t. Tribulation f ch as Was not, &c. ] Thofevery daies n,7ç jbaXbeafj?FElien: foellark bath ir, chap. 13 i9 As if the very, time
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