74 A Commentary upon the Go/fiel Chap.4, his fhoe, Vt plenisfaucib is crucem Chrifli derideat, faith mine 1óiás»a' Authour. In a word, withhis pomp and primacy, gain and lo- Prarage nn ntuic eft Ponti. ry, rule and riches, fat Bifhopricks and Cardinalfhips, as he fciu a, Ditare fought to enfnare Luther, and gain him to his fide : fo he gets and rr;,,citor,ter pr) bindes not a few fait to that rotten religion. Pauper Lutheran efJ'edef:,tant, multo:licitdivites, faidErafmus; it being then the ready way i 'h. Bar'. Get, to preferment towriteand rail againft Luther, as Eccitu, Cocci- joh us, and others found it. But Chrift will one day whip filch mo- ney-merchants, and their cuftomers out of his houle, as he did thole in the Gofpel ; chafe them out ofhis pretence, as Nehemiah did Sanballats fon inLaw; Curfe themWith a curfe, that runne Iude t t, greedily after theerreur of Balaamfir reward. Let the Romifb At Atoorougb Balak. offer as large as the devil Both here , every one that hath there is a any thing of Chrift in him, will anfwer with that noble Itztlian known price convert (Galeaciuec Caracciolan Marquefle of Vice in Na- nf roflorens a _ pies who being tempted by a Jefuite to revolt for money, to all p g l' Y J that will turn cried out, Let their money perifb With them, Who efteem all Palmas, Sands the gold in the World Worth one daies (iciety With 7e. has relation, fus Chris`T, and his holySpirit. flndcurfed be that Religionfir In his life fee ever, &C. forth by Cra If thous Wiltfall down andWorfhip nee.] Luke faith, worfhip 164W. before me. So that to worfhip before an Idol is to worfhip the Idol , whatever the Romanift pretendand plead to the contrary. And not only fo, but to fall down,as thedevil would have had our Revet, tar8. Saviour here ( though be not come to worfhipping) is a grie- vous (inne. St John had not yet worfhipped the Angel, but only fallen down, as defirous to worihip, and is taken up by the Angel, for that idolatrousgefture. Woe then to thofe Rim. monites, that plead for auupright foul in a proftrate body; and alleadge for their warrant, that of Apocryphall Barge, Chap.6. wherefire When yefee the multitude of people Worfhipping them., behinde andbefare, fayye in your hearts, OLord, it is thou that oughteft only tobe dporfhipped. Serve we God with our bodies PCaI,40 8, alfo; and fay withDavidand Chrift, Lord, abody haft thou gi- Heb, yen me ; Loe,l come tódoe thy Will therewith. But what a de- fperate and deteftable boldneffe was it in the devil, tomove fpeech of fuch a fin as this, toour Saviour Chrift? It was extreme fawci- nefhe in Satan to adjure our Saviour ( whom he there cals, Thi. mark 5.6,7. Sonne ofthe moll high God) not to torment him, it was horrible impudency, But nothing, comparable to this in the Text, towor- (hip
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