Verse 20. All these things have I kept]
Lie and all: as now* 1.1 the Popish Pharisees dream and brag that they can keep the Law, and spare. They can do more then, then any that ever went be∣fore them, Psal. 143. 3. Job 15. 14. Jam. 3. 2. Oecolampadius saith, that none of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 lived out a full thousand years (which is a number of perfection) to teach us, that here is no perfection of 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Davids heart smote him for doing that which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 highly r commended him for.
Gr. Wherein am I yet behinde with God?* 1.2 He thought himself somewhat aforehand, and that God, belike, was in his debt. Truely many now-a daies grow crooked and a∣ged with over-good opinions of themselves, and can hardly ever beset right again. They stand upon their comparisons, I am as good as thou: nay upon their disparisons, I am not as this Pub∣lican. No, for thou art worse; yea for this, because thou think∣est thy self better. This arrogant youth makes good that of Ari∣stotle, who, differencing between age and youth, makes it a pro∣perty* 1.3 of young men, to think they know all things, and to af∣firm lustily their own placits. He secretly insults over our Savi∣our* 1.4 as a triviall teacher, and calls for a lecture beyond the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, worthy therefore to have been sent to Anticyra: surely as when Drusus in his defence against a nimble Jesuite that called him 〈◊〉〈◊〉, alledged that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 must be in sundament is fidei, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 replied that even that assertion was heresie: So when this young man affirmed that he had ever kept the Commandments, and asked what lack I yet? Christ might well have said, thou art