Chap.2 6. according to St M A T T H E VV. 593 and the holy Ghoft to be God, &c. faid lvbite Bifhop of Att. andMors, winchcf#er concerning woodman, and other holy Martyrs, in a ïoLe813.. Sermon. let fund they none] The enemies likelieft projeEìs oft fail. Thefe falle witneffes, as thofe Babel- builders of old, difagreed in their language, which God confounded ; and fo he cloth to this day. Verfe 61. /am able to deflroy the temple] Novum crimen Cale (ej r.For,what ifChrift had faid fo? Could not he as eafily have reared a temple as raifed the dead, reftored the blinde, d-c ? But the truth is he never faid fo, but was mifreported, and falfely accuted ( faith Father Latymer,) both as touching his words and meaning alto. He laid D efiruite, Dettroy ye ; they made it Poffum deftruere, I am able to deftroy. He faid Templum hoc, this temple, meaning his own body : they added manufallum made with hands, to bring it to a contrary fenfe, &c. Thus muti- landovel murando, by chopping or changing, ill-minded men do ufuallydeprave and wreft toa wrong meaning, the molt innocent paffages andpraftifes. Verte 62. AnfiVerefi thou nothing ? ] No, nothing : unle{fe it had been to better purpofe : for yüv xtñ,ñ a eipsove ciyñs faith the wife Heathen. Either hold thy peace,or fay fòmething that'sworth hearing. And, ?nG d7rCM)' 3U:! ese37. ltxòv. To an- ,Mato. fwer every flight accufation is fervile. Some are fo thin they may Tenuerne:daei be feen thorow, others fogrofle, that they need no refutation. um pellu.et. Thefe hypocrites were not worthyof an anfwer from our Savi- Sen. our; who knew alfo that now was the time riot ofapologizing, but of fuffering : therefore as a (beep before her theater is dumb, ifo.s;.z. fo he opened not his mouth. Befides, he faw that his enemies were relolved to have his blood, and therefore held it more glori- ous, 9r916,P3 as Bafil hath it, tochoak their spite with Glence, injuriam tacendo fugere, potiút guano reifion- EpiPt'rz7'. dendo r perarc, as another faith, to fee them down by laying nothing. Verle 63. I adjure thee by the living God] So had thedevil done once before, horrendo impudentia exemplo Mark 3.7. Sed 01 Caiaph e & ceden, Satanu in code m runt predicamento. It is nothing with the devil and his, topollute and diffallow that no menmajeffativum, asTertullian flileth ir, that glorirts andfear- fa name of God, as Mofes callethit: and tocall him in,ac al Deuras,ss Qq 3 turns,
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