Chap.25. according to S t M A T T H n vv. 569 ingwere fo unfpeakably comfortable : If Mary and Elisabeth did fo greet and congratulate, O what (hall be the joy of that loft day ! Inherit theKingdomprepared] Here (as in the Turks Court ) every man is ant Ccefar ate Hahne , as he Paid, either a King or a rar, hit(. caitiff; as the .9ulranschildren, ifthey raign not,they die without mercy, eitherby the (word or halter. From theßnndarion of the World] Their heads were deftina. ted long finte to the diadem, as Tertullian bath it. K. ones was crowned in his cradle. Sapores King ofPer/iia, before he was boar (for hisfather dy ing,theNobles let thecrown on his mothers bel- ly)but the Saints were crowned, in Gods eternall counfell, before the world was founded. Verle ;5. For IWas anhanged] For in this place, denotetlt not the caufc, but the evidence. It is all one as if I thould fay, This man liveth, for behold he moveth. Where it will eafìly be yeelded, That motion is not the caufe of life, but the evi- dence and efteet of it. So here. Merit is a nicer fiftion , fith there can be no proportion betwixt the worke and the wages. Verle 36. Naked, andye clothedme] Darinr, before he came to the. Kingdom, received a garment for a gift of' one Sylofin. And, when hebecame King, herewarded him with the com mand ofhis countrey Samos. Who now will fay that Sylorn tne. sEtían, rited fuch a boon for fo (mall a curtefie ? A Gardiner, offering a rape-root ( being the bell prefent the poor manhad) to the Duke of Burgundy was bountifully rewardedby the Duke : Which his,. Stewardobferving thought tomake of ofhis bounty, prefenting himwith avery fair horfe. The Duke (ut per .F ricaci erat ingenio; faith mine authour) being a very wife man , perceived the pro- ject, received the horie, and gavehimnothing for it. Right fo will God deal with our merit- mongers, that by building mona- fteries,&c. think to purchafe heaven. I Was in prifen , and ye came tome] Many Papi(ts have hence concluded, that there are only fix works of mercy, Vifiro, pore, cibo, &c. whereas indeed thereare many more. But it is remark- able out of this text, that the lalt definitive fentence (hall paffe upon men, according to their forwardneffeand freeneffe in (hew ing mercy to the family of faith. And that the (entente of able. cation ¡hall contain a manifeftationof all their good works,_ and that.
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