Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: v. 30; Cant. v. 10, 16; Ps. xlv. 9; 1 S. Pet. ii. 7?9. Bp. Horsley. (Serm. Ps. xlv. 1.) Observe His Divine power and goodness, shining forth in the miraculous cure of all diseases. But these bodily cures were but preludes of the main work; but signs hung out to show, where the Physician of souls dwelt. And, whatsoever be thy spiritual maladies, though never so many and desperate, yet come. Never any came to Him, and went away mieured. i. 32?35. Abp. Leighton. (Lectures on S. Matthew, c. iv. 23.) CHAPTER VII. rPHEN came together unto Him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. 5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, Why walk not Thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands ? 2 They found fault.?The greatest evil lies in the want of charity, and in that contentious eagerness, with which singularity in little things is apt to be attended. Rom. xiv. 17?21. J. Milner. Avoid those things in thyself, which in others do most displease thee; and remember, that as thine eye observes others, so thou art observed by God, by angels, and by men. S. Matt. vii. 1? 6. Bp. J. Taylor. (The golden grove.) 3 The religion of many is something to save appearances, a kind of beauty-wash to colour over, and give a finer tincture to, the surface of their actions, wi…
