Chapr. according to St M A T T ii n vv. 63Q buriall place, T(a.65.4,5. Go ca nplains of a people th<r remaiv amonz thegraves, and lodge in the monuments ; Which ely, Band by thyfelf, come not near to me, for I am holier then thou, &e. tick they were ofa Noli me ytangere, tlriát in miles, tenth ff.i of foul lVricom rb. flnnes. Thereare that tell us, that the nature of this Potters field ter Ja"et' is loch, as if a ftrangers body be laid in it, it confumes it to the Medic for the bone in four and twenty hours ; which it doth not to the body_ Run ;n week, ofany Jew. This, if it be true, faith one, it teemsGod would br N raytour, have the earth thus markt to preferve the memory of the bloudy moray, by which it was purchafed : and therefore he gave it a vertue to confume [rangers bodies ere they could corrupt, refu- fingtheJews; to íhew how they had loft their priviledge to theirown land, by crucifying their Lord, and (rangers began tobe pofTefl ofit. Alto, to teachus, that his hope is nearefl incur- ruption, who is thegreaten ftranger from the finofthe J ews,that is, crucifying ChriPt. Verfe 8. Was calledthe field of blood] Not the buriall-place for [rangers, as theywould have had it called ( thinking there- by to have gotten themfelves an eternal' commendation, for their love and liberality to (Strangers) but thefieldofblood (fo the Vulgar would needs call it, much againfl thefe Mailers mindes) fora laffing monument of their deteffable villany , which they thought tohave carried fo cleaa;ly, that the world fhould have been never the wifer ; and therefore they would not loll C hrifr themfelves, as they did Steven ; but, todecline theenvy,deliver- edhim up toPilate to beput to death. It is hard if hypocrites be not, by one means or other, detected : ,how elfe iliould their names rot ? Verfe 9. Then Was fulfilled ] Thole blinde Pharifees not only . obferved not the fayingsof the Prophets which they daily read, but unwittingly allo fulfilled them. By Ieremy the Prophet ] Indeed by Zachary the Prophet t but either Iereanyhad twofeverall names (as was or'rtioary among that people)or cite what lerearhy had preached, Zachary long after committed to writing :asdid likewif Ohadiah, & The price of him that Was valued] A goodly price let there upon Cod, for all his paflorall pains with that pervetfe peo- ple : and rareupon Cl-rift -(who is hereby proved to be God ) for all his ineftimable worth, and incomparable love to `oft marl. kinde, If we be at any time undervalued , as we a lure re
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