----.-----. Chap. tq. according toSt,JvHw. 99 Verfe 2o. Remember the Word, &c.] Elfe all is loft, I Cor.I5.2. Naturally the Word runs thorow us , as water thorow a riven 71"1 ejf,. vefl'el : Pleni rimarum femur, huc atq; illuc difuimus. Our me-4ti o,g4r. +Heb modes are as feives.that retain the chaff, let go the good corn :z. I. or as nets,that keep thepelf, let go the clean water: or as hour- glaffes, that are no teener full, but running out again. Befeech we God to puthis finger upon the hole, and to mikehis word an en- graftedword unto us, to fettle it uponour fouls,&c. If they have kept my japing, &c.] But they will do neither. ;Holy Melantthon, being himfelf newlyconverted, thought it im- poffible for his hearers to withf}and the evidence of the Gofpel : But after he had been a Preacher a while , 'tis Paid he com- plained , that old e/idam was too hard for young Melan- (then. Verfe at. Becaufe they know not him, &c. ] For had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord ofglory. St Paul thanks his ignorance for all.his crueltiestoChriftians. Ignorance Arilî:&hic.!.; is a breeder and great-bellied. 4riflotlemakes it themother ofall mifrule and mifchief. Verfe 22. IfIhad not come, &c.] Here our Saviour fhews that their ignorance was afleEted, as theirs is with us, ut liberitu Bern. peccent, libenter ignorant, they ¡hut the windows left the light fhould come in, Sic fit, ubi homines majorem vìt.e partem in SenecaEpift. tenebris agent , ut noviffim' folem quafi fupervacuum fa- flidiant. This is the ignorance to which mercy is denied , Ifa.27. II. Verfe 23. He that hatethme] 'Tis wonder how any íhould ; omne peccatt yet we readofGod-haters, Rom. r.3 o. and all fin is a kinde of God- vivaS.4 ¿m' flaughter : the wickedwith there were noGod, when Davidcries out, vivat Deus, &c, Verfe 24. works, which none other man did] More flupendi- ous,becaufe by my ownpower,and all to the peoples profit. Thefe were ofufe in the Churches infancy, and Papifts boaR of them fill; but thofe are the Devils lying wonders , 2 Thef. 2.9. As for our Religion , Ptsdet diabolum Lutheri doCtrinam miraculis confirmare, faith Gretfer the Jefuite. But we anfwer with 1ín- "t huc' prodigi4ts. rit gufiine , He that now looks for a miracle, is himfelf a great magnum e(i miracle. Chrift was the onely Thaumaturgur , or Wonder- ipftpradigium. worker. This is attefted by 7ofephtu the Jew, and confeffed by Mahomet. H 2 Verfe
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