4*20 Obedience ofmen ^pasture on mouiilains' to Our Laid. Job 39, beis, these are inounlaiiis of" Mis pasture; doubtless, because ^- - He is satisfied with the conversion of the wandering, and John 4, the humility of the proud. As He Himself says, My meat in to do the will of Him that sent Me. And as He com- manded the Apostles, when sent forth to preach, saying, John 6, Labour not for the meat uhicJi perlsheth, but for that wliich endureth unto eternal life. Of these mountains it is Ps.95,4. said by the Prophet, The Lord will not reject His people, for in His hand are all the ends of the earth, and the heights of the hills He beholdeth. For the heights of the mountains are surely the loftinesses of the proud. Which the Lord is said to behold, that is, to change from their iniquity for the better. For the Lord converts the person whom He Luke22,looks on. Whence it is written, The Lord turned, and ' ' looked upon Peter ; a7id Peter remembered the word of tite Lord, how He had said, Before the cock crow thou shall deny Me thrice; and he went out, and wept bitterly. And Prov. as Solomon says, A King that siiteth on the throne ofjudg- " ' ment, scattereth away all evil with His look. Of this looking at the mountains it is said again by the Prophet, Ps.97,5. TJie mountains melted like wax-from the face of the Lord ; because, after the hardness of their perversity, they were melted by the Divine fear, and subsided from their former rigid swelling. * 79. But we must observe, thatHe does not say, ' beholdeth,' but looketJi round on the inomitains of His pasture. For the Lord was in truth Incarnate in Judaea, which was placed in the midst of the nations. And He therefore looked round on the mountains, because He gathered together, irora the whole body of the Gentiles, the proud of this world situated every where around. He feeds therefore in these mountains; because lie is satiated with the good works of the converted, as if with green herbs. Hence is it that it is said to Him Sol. ^y *^^^ voice of the Bride in the Song of Songs, Shew me Song, 1, where Thou feedest, where Thou liest at noon. Yox the Lord is fed, when He is delighted with our good deeds. But He lies down at noon, when, after the heart of the reprobate burning with carnal desires. He finds the cool refreshment of holy thought in the breasts of His Elect. For Matthew had been a kind of mountain, when he was