Treavy laden. and I will give you ref.
29 Take my yoke upon you,and learn of me. for per. 7+ Tam meek, and * lowly ot heart, and ye ſhall find þ-*" x5oft unto your fouls.
Js 20 * For my yoke 3s cafie, and my burden is p liont. 'Our Lord having before ſhewed ; 1. That all Power was given + him. 2. That none could know the Father, but by and in him; Voſertt his Difcourfe with an Invitation of Perfons to him. By the weary and heavy laden, in the Texr, ſome underſtand thoſe thar are [adn with the Senſe of their Sins, and rhe tecling the Guilt of them, Orhers underſtand with the Burden of the Law, which the Aroſtlzs called a Toke , Ads 15. 10, (Mr. Calvin thinks this roo ſtrair an Interpretarion :) Orhers underſtand , Heavy laden with Trials and Aftidtioms. Chriſt will give Ref ct ail choſe of his Perple , thar are any ways weary and heavy laden; bur in an Order, Firſt, To Souls wearied, and heavy laden with the Bur- den of their Sins, and their want of a Righteouſneſs, wherein to ſtand before God, Then to ſuch ro whom he hath given this ReF, he promiferh alſo Ref from their Troubles and Perſecutions in the World, 7»h. 16.33. Ir is very like he uſed this rerm Come, with reſpz& ro thar of Iſaiah, chap. 55. I, 2. That by Coming, 15 to be underſtood Believing, is plain from Foh. 6. 44,45,45. Heb. 11. 6. The &2f promiſed, chictly reſpefterh the $9/, as appears from w7, 29, The Promiſe may be underſtood borh of chat Res? which Believers have in this Life, Rom.5.2, and 15.13. and alfo of that Ref, which after this Life remaineth for the People of God, Heb.4.9. Wh:arever the KeFf be, ir muſt be of Chriſt's giving, v. 29. and our /--bing, 1.30. Nor is it to be obtained, withour Labour and $:Foring; for ic followerh, | Ticke my yoke vpon you. ] The Mem- bers of Chriſt are not wichour a 7obe, a Law and Rule by which they are oblized to walk; and rho' the Service of God be a perfedt Freedom, wer to Fleſh and Blood it is a 7oke, grating upon our Serſitive Atpetite, and reſtraining our Natural Motions and Inclis rattins, | For Tam Lowly and Meek. | Humility and Mecknefſs are in chemſel72s 7bes, as they are contrary to our Pride, and apt- refs ro ſell in an high Opinion of our ſelves, and to our Wrath aid 4nzer, which ſometimes boilerh to a great heighth, withour any due Fewel : And as in themſelves they are a great part of Chriſt's 2obe , fo they fir and diſpoſe us to rake Chriſt's further 7he upon us; and may be here confidered, as Means diretted for the berter Performance of the Precept, Tabe my The upon 3249, Our Lord alſo by this Precept lets us know , there can be no true Frith, without Obedience ro the Commands of Chriſt, Tho' true Faich and Obedience be two things, yer they are infeparable; Shww me thy Exith ( faith James) by thy Works. And the Re# of the Texr is not promiſed to either of chem ſeverally, bur to both pindy : [For my Tobe #s eaſie, and my Burden 3s light.) Our Sa- vicur had before, chap. 7. told us, that rhe Way to Heaven 15 a #-:it Way ; how doth he now tell us his Toke is eaſie, and his Bur- den light 2 Anſw. Nothing, makes it hard or buraenſom, but our Corruption , which flowerh from the Depravation of Humane Nature, 2. It is much eafier than the Toke and Burden of the Law, 3. Tho! it be hard to Beginners, yer it 1s eafie when we have once accrtomed our Flves to it. 4. It 15 eaſte, conſidering that we do it | 72! in 2ur own {irength, but by Aſſiſtance fr»m God, Ferem. 31. 33. Er%.35. 25, 26. Joh,15. 3a Wearedelivered even from the M.:! Law, confider'd as a Covenant,and as meerly commanding us, and affording no help and affiſtance. Ir 1s alſo eaſze, as weare by /"> Love of God conſtrained to our Duty, fo we are freed from the Rizor of the Law. Ir is eaſte and light, as it is a Courſe of Life hizhly conſonant ro our Reaſon, once delivered from a Bondage to cur Paſſims, Finally, it is much more eaſ/2 and /ight rhan rhe Service of our Luſts is, There is no greater Slavery, than a ſub- jection to our Luſts 3 that 1f a Drunhard faich Come , we muſt come ; if an #:rlot fairh Go, we muſt go. Or than our Service to the World, Xc, To fay nothing of che exceeding Eaſineſs of it trom the Proſpe# of the great Reward propoſed,and promiſed ro thofe who keep the Commandments of Chriſt, the Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory ;, as Jacob's hard Service of fourteen years,
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Clr' vindicateth his Diſciples for plucking and eating Ears of Corn 2 the Sabbath, by Scripture and Reaſin, 1—7. Proveth himfelf {1 be Lord of the Sabbath, by reflorins a withered Hand, 8—13, T1e PÞiriſees conſpire again8t him : He eſcapeth, 14 —21. Caſteth out a Devil out of a blind and a dumb Man : Vindicatetn himſelf eur, and confuteth the Blaſphemous Opinion of the Phariſees of bim, 22-—30, And ſheweth that Blaſphemies again$t the Holy Gh$ ſhall never be forgiven : Idle Wards to be counted for, 31—37, T) tho Phariſees ſeching a Sien, he ztveth only the Sign of [cnas: ond oppyſeth the F:ith of the Ninivites, and of the Queen of the South, to their Unbelief and Obſtinacy : And ſheweth their End by 4 onmilitude of an unclean Spirit cat out, and returning again to
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| ing corn, thou mayest pluch the ears with thy
Chap. XII.
hi old Habitatio , 38—45. Who are his Brother, Siſter, and Mother, declared by him, 45—50.
I A T that time Jeſus went on the ſabbath day through the corn, and his diſciples were an
hungred, and began to pluck the ears ot corn, and to eat.