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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45190	The contemplations upon the history of the New Testament. The second tome now complete : together with divers treatises reduced to the greater volume / by Jos. Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1661 (1661)	Wing H375; ESTC R27410	712,741	526

all the gazing multitude and to embalm it When we confess God's name with the Psalmist before Kings when Kings defenders of the Faith profess their Religion in publick and everlasting monuments to all nations to all times this is glorious to God and in God to them It is no matter how close evils be nor how publick good is This is enough for the Chronography the Topography follows I will not here stand to shew you the ignorance of the Vulgar translation in joyning probatica and piscina together against their own fair Vatican copy with other antient nor spend time to discuss whether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be here understood for the Substantive of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is most likely to be that Sheep-gate spoken of in Ezra nor to shew how ill piscina in the Latin answers the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ours turn it a pool better then any Latin word can express it nor to shew you as I might how many publick Pools were in Jerusalem nor to discuss the use of this Pool whether it were for washing the beasts to be sacrificed or to wash the entrails of the Sacrifice whence I remember Hierom fetches the virtue of the water and in his time thought he discerned some redness as if the blood spilt four hundred years before could still retain his first tincture in a liquid substance besides that it would be a strange swimming pool that were brewed with blood and this was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This conceit arises from the errour of the construction in mismatching 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Neither will I argue whether it should be Bethsida or Bethzida or Bethsheda or Bethesda If either you or my self knew not how to be rid of time we might easily wear out as many hours in this Pool as this poor impotent man did years But it is Edification that we affect and not Curiosity This Pool had five Porches Neither will I run here with S. Austin into Allegories that this Pool was the people of the Jews Aquae multae populus multus and these five Porches the Law in the five books of Moses nor stand to confute Adrichomius which out of Josephus would perswade us that these five Porches were built by Solomon and that this was stagnum Solomonis for the use of the Temple The following words shew the use of the Porches for the receit of impotent sick blinde halt withered that waited for the moving of the water It should seem it was walled about to keep it from Cattel and these five valuted entrances were made by some Benefactors for the more convenience of attendance Here was the Mercy of God seconded by the Charity of men if God will give Cure they will give harbour Surely it is a good matter to put our hand to Gods and to further good works with convenience of injoying them Jerusalem was grown a City of blood to the persecution of the Prophets to a wilful despight of what belonged to her peace to a profanation of God's Temple to a mere formality in God's services and yet here were publick works of Charity in the midst of her streets We may not alwaies judge of the truth of Piety by charitable actions Judas disbursed the money for Christ there was no Traitor but he The poor traveller that was robb'd and wounded betwixt Jerusalem and Jericho was passed over first by the Priest then the Levite at last the Samaritan came and relieved him His Religion was naught yet his act was good the Priests and Levites Religion good their uncharity ill Novatus himself was a Martyr yet a Schismatick Faith is the soul and good works are the breath saith S. James but as you see in a pair of bellows there is a forced breath without life so in those that are puffed up with the winde of oftentation there may be charitable works without Faith The Church of Rome unto her four famous Orders of Jacobins Franciscans Augustines and Carmelites hath added a fifth of Jesuites and like another Jerusalem for those five Leprous and lazarly Orders hath built five porches that if the water of any State be stirred they may put in for a share How many Cells and Convents hath she raised for these miserable Cripples and now she thinks though she exalt her self above all that is called God though she dispence with and against God though she fall down before every block and wafer though she kill Kings and equivocate with Magistrates she is the onely City of God Digna est nam struxit Synagogam She is worthy for she hath built a Synagogue Are we more orthodox and shall not we be as charitable I am ashamed to think of rich Noblemen and Merchants that dye and give nothing to our five porches of Bethesda What shall we say Have they made their Mammon their God in stead of making friends with their Mammon to God Even when they dye will they not like Ambrose's good Usurers part with that which they cannot hold that they may get that which they cannot lose Can they begin their will In Dei nomine Amen and give nothing to God Is he onely a Witness and not a Legatee Can we bequeath our Souls to Christ in Heaven and give nothing to his Lims on earth And if they will not give yet will they not lend to God He that gives to the poor Foeneratur Deo lends to God Will they put out to any but God and then when in stead of giving security he receives with one hand and payes with another receives our bequest and gives us glory Oh damnable niggardliness of vain men that shames the Gospel and loses Heaven Let me shew you a Bethesda that wants porches What truer house of effusion then the Church of God which sheds forth waters of comfort yea of life Behold some of the porches of this Bethesda so farre from building that they are pulled down It is a wonder if the demolished stones of God's House have not built some of yours and if some of you have not your rich Suits garded with Souls There were wont to be reckoned three wonders of England Ecclesia Foemina Lana The Churches the Women the Wooll Foemina may pass stil who may justly challenge wonder for their Vanity if not their Persons As for Lana if it be wonderful alone I am sure it is ill joyned with Ecclesia The Church is fleeced and hath nothing but a bare pelt left upon her back And as for Ecclesia either men have said with the Babylonians Down with it down with it even to the ground or else in respect of the Maintenance with Judas ut quid perditio haec why was this wast How many remorseful souls have sent back with Jacob's sons their money in their Sacks mouths How many great Testators have in their last Will returned the anathematized peculium of Impropriations to the Church chusing rather to impair