Chap.4. ttccerdigg to Se M A T T H E vv. cordis legatos, faith Cyprian. Currat pcenitentia ne precurrat fententia , faith rhryfñlogus. Wifh we for our Church, as Ferros did for the Romig, Synagogue, that we had lime C/ylofes to tube away the evils and abufes therein. Nam non unum, tq.ntimvitttlrttra, fed multes habemtu. And then fing as ano- ther did, Ah,nediem iliumpofteri Vivant mei, quopriltinum Verna' terntur in lutumaure,e J'e nos beltruntfacula ! He came and din: It in Capernaum] Happy town in to Tweet and precious an Inhabitant 1 and is therefore Laid to be lifted up to Heaven, Matth,11.2 ;. as evel.y.amongchofethatwerefealed of the feverall Tribes yudah is firft reckon'd of all Leahs children, becaufe our Lord e7;rang out of 7udah : and Nepthali (ofall thofe ofRachels fide) becaufeat Capernaum, in that Tribe, he 'icdci i Ape- dwelt; Vt utrobin /hperemineat Chrifti prarogativa, faith an ;ay Interpreter, That Chrill may beall, and in all. Here he dwelt sie Aqu ;n par, in an houle, either let or lent him : for of his own he had not ?.q where torat hishead, Matrh.8. Here he paid tribute as an in. loam Hicron. habitant : and hither he retorted and retired himfelf, when he was zn hlat.i° tired at any time with preaching and journeying, and was willing to take reif ; which yet hardly he could doe, thorow the conti- [uall concourfe, but was glad to get into a fnipor defert to pray, eat or (leep. Which i, tipon the fea-coal-. ] That is, hard by the lake of Ge- neraret in Galilee ofthe Gentiles. `?efepous cals is a Town, ee(.ev;v, Jofeph.invita bec suie it was without wals (belike.) For Strabo writeth that f °4 `Pompey had commanded the wals of all fenced Cities in thofe Sr.ibo t,r6, parts, to be pulled down. St Hierom alto faith it was a Town, nno,rpiebrn and that it to continued till his times. Bat St CA7ratthere, and St Luke name it a City, wherein there was a Synagogue of the Jews, and aGarifon ofHerods fouldiers, becaufe it bordered up- òn Arabia. It had fifteen thoufand inhabitants at leafs, there be- ingnoTown in Galilee that had fewer, faith 7ofphtu. The in- ere bello tu- habitants might be of the fame minde with thofe of the Hage in daico.t.3. c.a. Holland, whowill not wall their Town, though it hath a000. houfholds in it, as defiring to have it counted rather the principali village ofEurope, then a letter City, In the borders of Zebu/on and Nepthali. ] In the former G 3 whereof
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