Verse 52. Therefore every Scribe,]
i. e. Every teacher of the Church must be both learned and apt to teach. He must give at∣tendance to reading first, and then to exhortation and doctrine, 1 Tim. 4 13. Bishop Latimer, notwithstanding, both his years,* 1.1 and other pains in preaching, was every morning ordinarily both Winter and Summer about two of the clock at his book most dili∣gently. And as the Rabbins have a proverb, Lilmod lelammed, Men must therfore learn that they may teach, so did he. The Hebrew word Shachal signifieth, 1. To understand. 2. To teach. 3. To prosper. They that therefore learn, that they may teach others, shall finde that the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in their hands, Isa. 53. 10.
Extrudit copiosè & al••∣criter. That throweth out his store without spare, and dealeth* 1.2 forth his soul to the hungry hearer, desirous to spend and be spent for him. That hath a treasury of his own, and steals not all out of others. Non libro sacerdotis, sed labro conservatur scientia. He laies up good things into his heart, that therewith after they have been well fried for a while, he may feed many: according to that, Psal. 45. 1. MY heart is ••••diting, or frying, a good matter; my tongue shall be the pen of a ready Writer. They are empty vines that* 1.3 bear fruit to themselves: a wholsome tongue is a tree of life, Pr•••• 15. 4. God hath purposely put honey and milk under their* 1.4 tongues, that they may bring forth, as occasion requires their new and old, that they may look to lip-feeding, that they may be in company, like full clouds or paps, that pain themselves with fulnesse, till eased of their milk; or like Aromaticall trees that sweat out their soveraign oils.