576 t..4 Commentary upon the GoOel Chap,26. fames ? Look well to it. For as there were many Mará in one Cer, fo are there many Juda 'es in the belt. Let Patrons c(pe_ cially look CO it : for many of them are worfe then /udu ; He fold the head, they the members : he the (beep, they the fheep- herd ; he but the body, they the fouls, as that fcarlet (trumpet, Revel.i8.13. Verfe 16. And from that time he (ought ] So it was no ftld_ denbut a prepenfed wickedneffe, done in cold blood, and upon mature deliberation. Gods people when they finne, they are pre- l'fal r; 9 u:r. occupated, and taken before they are aware, Ga1.6.1. There is noWay ofWickednefe in them, ordinarily. It is of incogitancy put them in minde, and they mend all. Or it is of pafíion; and paflîons la(t not long. They deny not Chrift that bought them : they can do nothing againft the truth, they will not for. goe God upon any tearms, they never finne with deliberation about thischief end : if they erre, it is only in the way, as thinking that they may fulfill fuch a lust, andkeep God too. Verfe 17. Now the frft day ] That is, on the fourteenth day ofthe fiat tnoneth, according to the law. The Prie(ts for poll-, tique refpeé s, had adjourned this feaft to the fixteentt, daybeing the Sabbath, againft the letter of the law; that thecelebrity inighc be thegreater, and the peopie were ruled by them. Our Saviour followeth not a multitude, nor obferveth mans tradition herein, but Gods prefcription : Nomoremuff we. This SC Luke plainly intimatethinhisuf',Luk2a,7. Then came theday of unleaven- ed bread when the Paffeoverought to be killed ; though the tuft orne were otherwife. 4J4,va Verfe 18. Go into the city to (itch a man] Meaning force man of his fpeciall acquaintance, for fo the Greek imports, though he named him not. So Palrnoni hammedabber, fuch an one the jpeak,er, Dan.S.13. Verfe 19 Did as Zefis had appointed them] With a kinde of blinde obedience : (rich as we mutt yeeld to God, notwith- ftanding all unlikelyhoods or fcruples whatfoever, calf in by carnali rea(on. This the fcripture calls the obedience of faith, and commends it to us, in, the examples of Abraham, ldofes, o- thers, Heb. i 1. Verfe :o.. He fit down with the twelve], With kilos among thereft : though Hilary holdotherwife, for whatxeafon I know lot. Chrilt fat at the Sacrament, when yet the gefture impor- ted:
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