106 A Commentary upon the GofJ'el Chap: i6. cordadocet,faith Augufiine. And Ossando Chriflsu doter, imam cite difciturguoddocetur _? So St Ambro/e , Nefcit tarda molimi- na f jtirituu fanEti gratia. When the fpirit undertakes to teach a man, he fhall notbe long a learning. Now all Gods people have 31oh. z. the VnE1ion that teacheth themall things s And as in pipes, though ofdifferent founds, yet there is the famebreath in them: fo is there the fame fpirit inChrifians of all fuzes. Verfe 24. Hithertoye haveasked nothing] To what ye fhould ì King 13 19. have asked , and might have obtained. Prayer, as thofe arrows of deliverance, lhouldbemultiplied; the oftner we come to God,the . better welcome : neithercan we anger himworfe, then to be foon faidorfated. It was more troublefome to.Seversu. the Emperota to be askednothing , then to give much. When any ofhis Cour- tiers hadnot made bold with him, he would call him and fay, uid eftcur nihilpetis ? &c. whatrneaneft thou to ask me nothing ? So Chrift here. Ask that your joy may befull] Pray, that ye may joy : Draw: water with joy out of this weal offalvation. Davidwas excel- lent at this : His heart was oft more out of tune then his harpe; ' He prayes, and thencryes , Return to thy refl, ô my foul, &c. In manyofhis Pfalms, the beginnings are full oftrouble; but bythat As Pfal,6.a: timehe bath prayeda while, the ends are full of joy and afibrance, 21.8(51. - fó that one would imagine , faithPeter Mosslin, that thofe Pfalms dtouli del`a' hadbeencompofed by two men of a contraryhumour. Hudfon rronrdivin. the Martyr, deferted at the flake, went from under the chain ; and having prayed earneftly, was comforted immediately, andfüftered valiantly. egum obJcrr. Verfe 25. Thcfe things have I fpoklen, &c. ] He fpake plain ;cares non af enough, but they werefo flow of heart and dullof hearing , chat fgnemus iu'pæ they thought he fpake to them in riddles and parables. So though cribenti:rm,fed the Prophet dealt with the people as with little ones newly wean- infcitie ran'f- ed., mincing and mafticating their meat for them, laying before ce ciltapri5dc themprecept uponprecept, line upon line, e c. yet was he to them Gell. (through their fingular flupidity) as one that lifped halfwords, or fa.as.ro,u,uz. fpeakin a ftrange tongue. Atfr blefrs el; Verfe 26. At that day ye JF,all ask d°c.] Chrift had promifed labits. them further light, but yet expels they fhould pray for it. Prayer is a putting thepromifes in fuit ; we mutt pray them over, ere we get the performance, Ezek.3(.37. Chrift himfelf was to ask of his Fatherthe world for his inheritance, &c. Ffed.2. Verfe èÍole,'liui erat ei nibil peti, Tramdare.
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