61z A Commentary upon the Go(pel Chap.27 Didicit Mlle rnaledicere & ego contemnere, Paid he in Ta 'tic su,. Diain Aug. Non tantum habemuo otij. P C. laid Aeogufteu to the Senate when they informed himof what fuch and fuch had Paid againff him, we are not at leafure to linen to every flight flander railedof EmuFxñsiw us. And of Severus theEmperour it is recorded, that his care 7V .npatc7irev was what was to be done byhim, not what was laid or cenfured "440 11ç ° ofhim. Do Well and..,hear ill is written upon heavengates, laid ran,. Dio that Martyr. Bailersare tobe reckoned kill- Chrifls : smay more and then blows, Pfal.42.3,Io. As With a naurthering Weapon inmy bones, &c. Verfe 41. Likewife al( the chief Prielts ] Sick of an mrxaq. Kctría the devils difeafe, they petulantly infulc over our dying Sa- viour, with their Satanicall farcafines: which he anfwereth with filence, and by a brave compofedneffe fers himfelf above the flight of the injurious claw. Facileeft inme dicere, cumnonJim re3bon/ryes, faith one. It is as impofiible to avoid, as neceffary tocontemn the lath of lend tongues, bitter tongues, and fcurri- lous inve&ives. Thofe ears that were wont to hear nothing but Angelical) hymnes, are here filled with them, and he replyes not. Princes ufe not to chide when EmbafTadours offer them undecen- cies, but deny them audience. Verfe42. we Will beleeve him] They would not : but ra- ther have Paid, he had done it by the devils help ; or have fearched the devils skull to finde out force other trick, to elude the truth. Verfe43. He trusted in God] Thofe were cruel) mocking:, as thofe were called, Heb. 11.36. Nothing troubled D avidmore then to behit in the teeth with his God : to have his Religion laid inhis difh, Pfal.42. &43. And it went to lobs heart tohear his friend Eliphaz (agodly man otherwife, ) (coffe him for his Religion, yob4.6. Is not thy fear(or thy Religion) become thy filly ? Zedekiah feared more tobe mocked of theJews, then the Caldees, 7er.3 8.9. Let him deliver himnow] But what ifhe donot deliver him now is he thereforeno tonne ? So they would fèem to argue : and fo Satan would fain perfwade the Saints when held awhile tinder the crcffe. But the Apoflle affures us otherwise, Heb.1a. 6,7,8. See my Love-tokens. Verfe 44, The theeves 443] Both of them railed at firfl, till oneof them was converted by a miracle ( for it wasone of thofe feven
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