26 A Commentary upon the GvJbe1 Chap. g; have a torrent of pleafure. If therefore ye will be wife Mer- chants, happy Ufurers, part with that which ye cannot keep,that ye maygain that which yecannot lofe. Verfe 43. It is better for thee to enter] The Trojans, after long debate, concluded it better to part with Helen, though a' Lady of incomparable beauty, then, by retaining her longer, to venture their utter wreck and ruine. How. gad. 'A »%Ná co's Tob7 !gv' cv viuQa vsáa5w, fay they. Didwe but fore- thinkwhat finne will coff us, we durit not but be innocent. Verte 44. where their worme] As out of the corruption of our bodies wormes breed, which confume the flefh, fo out of the corruptionof our foules this never-dying worme. This worme (fay Divines) is only a continual! remorfe and furious reflation of the foule upon its own wilful! folly, and now wofull mifery> Oh confider this before thy friends be fcrambling for thy goods, worms for thy body, devils for thy foule. Goe not dancing to hell in thy bolts, rejoyce not in thy bondage, as many doe ; to whom the preaching of hell is but as the paintingof a toad,which mencan look on and handle, without affrightment. ganlíi oc.cotn Never dyeth, and the fire is not quenched] O quam diuturna & vae. 33. immenfa eft æternitats ! faid the devil! once. A childwith a fpoon may fooner empty the fea, then thedamned accomplifh their mi- fery. A liver ofbrimffone is not confumed by burning. Verfe 49. For every oneIliad befated -withfire] The Spirit, as fait, muff dry up thofe bad humours in us that breed the never- dying worm ; and, as fire, muff waffe our corruptions, which elfe . will carry us on to the unquenchable fire. Verfe 5 o. Salt is good] Nature hath prudently mingled fait jobsodin. with all things, that they may not eafily putrifie. rreges enint Z'heat.Nata.e pecorumurinam falfî mameffundere videmmu, & in omnes ftirpes falem infufum.. Havefalt in your felves] Hahne in vobisfal. A cujtu admo- nernaar tribau literù (at curiosè obfervat quidam) Sapere,,eflgere, Loqui. The conjuring of fait among the Papifts is intolerably blafphemous : It is thus : I conjure thee, O fait, by the living God,&c. that thoumaift be made a conjured fait to the falva- Aì., & Mon. tion of them that beleeve. And that unto all fuch as receive thee, thoumayeft be health of foul and body and that from out of the place, wherein thou fhalt be fprinkled, may fly away and depart all phantafie, »wickednetfe or crafttneffe of the devils fubtilty,
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