denr, and haſt revealed them unto babes. 26 Even fo, Father ; for {5 it ſeemed good in thy fight. Luke, chap. 10. v. 21. hath the farae thing; only he thus pre- faceth: In that hour Feſus reyiced in Sfivit, ard ſuid, I thank the: O Father, Lord of Heaven ond E-+th, Cv, Ve rejoiccd in Spirir, © his Heart was inwardly aticctcd with this Grace of God his Fa: ther, Then | He anſwered, and ſaid.) Anſwering in Scripture doth nor always fignifie Replying ro the Words of others , hur 4 Speaking upon fome fir Occatton cffered; a Beginning ofa Speech, [1 thank thee, O Father ! Lnyd of Heaven and Earth.) In the Greeb rhe ſame word 1s uſed, which f;nifieth to Confeſs. In all Thank(. giving and Praifing, there is a Confeſſion of the Power, Wiſdom, oz Goodneſs of God; 1o as all Praifing 1s a Confeſſing, tho' all C- feſſi?n be not Praifing. By calling his Father Lord of Heaven mnd Earth, he acknowledgeth his abſolute Power to have done ther. wiſe, even as it pleaſed him. | Becauſe thou ha$ hid theſe things from the Wiſe and Prudent. | By the Wiſe and Prudent, he here plainly means the Scribes and Phariſees. The Learned Doors of that Age, who ſhould have been Wiſe and Prudent, and were fo, both in their own, and in their Followers Opinion. By the/s things, he means the Myſteries of the Goſpel ; as Matth. 13, 11, The Myſteries of the Kingdom of Heaven : God 1s ſaid to have hid them, becauſe he had not revealed them to them ; nor can it be underſtood of a meer External Revelation , by the Preaching 0 the Goſpel z bur of an Internal Revelation by his Spirit, ſo as they embraced and believed them, 1 Cor. 2. 10, In which Senſe Pay! ſaith, 2 Cor. 4. 3» If our Goſpel be hid, it 3s hid to them that peiiſſ, { And ha$t revealed them unto Babes, ] vymers * It fignifierh Ferſons that are young in Years, | Infants ] and weak in Underſtanding, He principally means his Apoſtles, rogerher with thoſe ordinary Per- ſons that believed in him; for, oh. 7. 48,49. the Phariſees laid, Have any of the Rulers, or the Phariſees, believed on him ? But this People who knoweth not the Law, are curſed. O Father (faith our Saviour) thou haſt all Power in thine Hand; thou art the Ly of Heaven ard Earth; thou couldeſt by thy Spirit have cauſed theſe Learned Men to have received and embraced thy Grſpe!, and followed me, as well as theſe poor Fiſher-men, and other Fews of none of the higheſt Quality ; in thar chou haft nor done ir, thou haſt decJared thy Zuſtice, for their reje&ing of thy Com ſel tor their Salvation. Bur in that thou haſt revealed theſe things ro any, eſpecially to theſe Perſons, not under: the ſame Wild) Advantages, for Reputation, Wiſdom, and Wit , herein thou haſt ſhewed thy ſpecial, and abounding Grace, as well as the Greatneſs of thy Power. Lord! I rejoice in thy Diſperſatins, and I give thee Thanks, thatour of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings, thou ha$F perfefed thy Praiſe. There can be no other Reaſon given of this,bur thy good Pleaſure : [Even ſo, O Father, fi ſo it pleaſed thee.) We may from hence Obſerve, x. That tl further Revelations of ChriS to ſome Souls,more than others enjoying the ſame outward Means, are nor to be aſcribed to the Power or 519- neſs of the Will of Man, bur ſolely ro the Goed Pleaſure of God. 2. That from the Beginning of the Goſpel , the Special and Effe&uut Revelations of the Myſteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, have from the Good Pleaſure of God, been made generally, nor to the moſt Learned and Wife in Men's account, but moſtly to Perfons of a meaner Rank. Surgunt indo&i, fy Celum rapiunt ; 105 CU: Doerina noftra in Gehennam trudimur ; 1 Cor. 1. 26,27,28. Jam.2-5- 3. That whereſoever God by his Spirit reveals the Myſteries of the Kingdom of God, it is matter of great Foy and Thanksgiv's eſpecially where God reveals thefe Myſteries ro Perſons, mo: unlikely ro have received chem.
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