Goo A Commentary upon the oel the devil deals withmen as the Panther loth with thebeasts; he hides his deformed head, till his Tweet fent have drawn them in- tohis danger. Till we have finned, Satan is a parafite : when we in die 'udic' : have finned he is a tyrant. But it is good to confider that of Ber- plus vatebi yi nard. At thedayof judgement, a pure l' ítead one then a full urte, p con.caence Ihall betterbe- eonfientia pu p . ra gad in mar. When he fiiry that he Was condemned] He hoped, belike, that l'apia plena. Chrift would, as at other times he did, have delivered hirnielf Berne by a miracle. Let no man flatter himfelf, as if there were no fuch hurt in finne ; for, likedirty dogs, it doch but defile us in fawning : and like a treacherous Hoft, though it welcome us in- to; the Inn with fmiling countenance, yet is will cut our throats in ourbeds. Ids ;ú1m0 s- He repented] That is, he changed his minde, from thinking well ofhis former a&ions. So thofe mifcreants in Malachi are Paid to return and difcern, &c. Malach,3.18. So Rodulphus Ftunc.Cbronol. a Duke of via, when, at the Popes inftigation, takingup arms xicfait ille cui g Henry the Emperour, he had loft his right hand in the bac- Papaceronara tel, he lent for his Bithops, and other his confederates and faid nofit cum i/Ia unto them : Loe this is that hand wherewith I fwore that allegi- PQ1ri t diePe- ante tomy Soveraign, which byyour means andmotion I have vi- etra tro, adcii, ia_ olated. Videte an rec`lâ viii me duxeritis, &c Confider whether teasRoiulpbo. you have led me on in a right way ornot. And brought again the thirty peeces ] So did lames Abbe, bring to the Bifhop of Norwich, his forty pence fattened upon him by the Bifhop : which whenhe had received ( faith Mr Fox ) and was gon from the Bishop, who had prevailed with him to re- cant, his conícience began to throb, and inwardly to accule this . fad,how he had dilplealed the Lord, by contenting to their beaft- ly illuuons. In which combat with himfelf, being piteoufly vex- 0. and M. ed, hewent to the Bifhop again, and there threw him his mony jol,zs 3,8, and Paid, It repented him that he ever contented to their wicked perfwafions in taking of his mony. Hereupon the Bifhop with his Chaplains laboured afrefh to winne him again. But he was better refolved, and crying our to God for pardon of his finne ( which ludas did not) heobtained mercy, and fuffered Martyrdom. Verse 4, 1 have finned, &c.] Herewas Contrition, Confetti. on, Reftitucion (moft men go not fo far, that yet profs flè large hopesofheaven) there was wanting that Tranfinentttrion, Cor.- verfaon, Chap.z7,
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