6o4 Commentary upon theGO(Ped Chap. a1% choice ? Whydid he not rather (as lob) breakthe jam! ofthe Wic. lob30 17. ked, andpluckîhe .$`oil out oftheir teeth ? Should nut the l:tandard be made ofhardeft metals ? the chiefpoll of the honkbe heart of Oak e Was it not putillanimity and popularity that milled Pilate, and fo muzzled him, that he couldnot contradict the manyhead- cd multitude? Verfe 18. For he knew that for envy] His finnewas the great- er for his knowledge, lam,4.17. Omne peècatum contra confcieti- tianr, edfficat adgehennam,faith cer(ön. When men imprifon their light ( that Prophet fromGod) Rem.' .t S. andafter convicti- on runne away with thebit in their mouths, as it were, they run without Gods greater mercy upon their utter ruine and dettrueì- on. Team truly obferveth , that Solomons idolatry was a finne farre more tinfoil then that of his wives ; becaufe againit knowledge. Verte 19. His wifi Pent unto him] There are that think that this womans dream wasof the devil : thereby to have hindered the workofredemption by this competition, Satan and his a- gents, when they cannot conquer,would fain compound. Others opurproviden. will have it tobe a divine dream, becaufe it was Pent , fay they, H e Dei: non tit for the better clearingof Chritts innocency, even whiles he [food fokereturcbri° at thebar: yea for the falvation of this womans foul,as Theo hyla5 flue, redut ter. is ofopinion haophyI üaretur r. Verfe 2©. ?1 he chief `Friel?, and Elders perfvaded ] And pre- vailed. See thenhow needfutl it is that we pray for good go, verrours ; Ieroboam made Ifrael to finne : Peter compelled the Gentiles to Judaize, Gal. 2.14. As the corruption of a 'fill, begins at the head, and as in a beat} the whole body fol- lowes the head : So are the people over-ruled by their Rulers. Verfe e1. They fad, 7,.radba& ] This mad choice is every day made, whiles men preferre the lulls of their flefb before the lives oftheir fouls. In the prefent infrancewe may fee, as in a mirrour, the inconfrancy of the common fort ( who aft cry ed Chri:r up for a Prophet, and would have crowned him 5'ie >rerrariam for a King) and the defperate madneffe of the Pricks, n modmae mob ., vulgua, citaos Diabo um, ex inferno petivifent latam lefusr , as Parent bath it ; Who would have detired the devil of hell, rather then J efus. %; erfe 2 -16. Let him 6e crucified] He, whom ercwhile they had
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