and Praiſes, Talking of his Words and wondrous Werke. 2. T. ar we might Communicate our Minds to Men ,. 1n their cr cur own Concerns, and ſo be murualiy helptul cne to another, | Fir ty thy Words thu ſhalt te 7iftified, &c.} What Zuſtified } ere 114,nifics, appears by the word Condemed , (to whict ir is cxpoſed.) Gcd will pronounce Sentence ter cr againſt Men in the laſt day, nct only according to their other Afftions, tur acccreinyly 25 they have uſed their Tongues. It there were ne ot)-or Toxt in the Bible ro prove that we have need uf ancther Righreoutnets, than any of our own , wherein to ſtand betere Ged, this Texc aione would be enough; tor, Zmes 3. 2. If 2 Man effend mt in; 1i; the ſame is a perfect Man. :
- 38 * Then certain of the Scribes and of the Pha- * Var. 9. rifecs anſwered, faying, Maſter, we would fee a fipn 2" from thee. | : UN gk __
We read the like to this, chap. 15, 1.and Luke feemeth to re- aps
lare the ſame Hiſtory, chap. 11. 29. Muſter was the utuzl Title which they gave ro any , whom they owned as a Teacher, By 4.51gn, they mean ſomething that might contirm unto chem, that he was ſent of God ; they expedtcd that an extraordinary Mit. fion ſhould be ſo confirmed. So Joh. 6.30. What Sign ſhew-ci thou then, that we might ſee and believe thee © what at thay wor l- ? Mjes ſhewed them Signs (as they there go on) he brouche down tor them Bred fom Heaven. Had not Chriſt thewed them Sins enough , whar were all the Miracles he had wrought in their light? They either ſpeak this out a turcher Idle Curiclity ; ( cheir Eye nor being farisfied with feeing,) or ee they tpcak t 11 dirett oppoſition to the whole Scope and Tendency ot our Saviour's tormer Diſcourſe, which was trem his Miracles, to prove himſelt truly God , and fent of Grd : If the latter , which ſcemerh trom our Saviour's ſharp Anſiver,moſt prebable, the Sum of whar they ſay is thys : Maſter, we have lecn thee do wonder- tul Works, bur no ocher than what Impoſtors may do by che atfiſtance of the Devil ; we would tee tomerhing done by thee which Magicians cannot do; ſuch as 3hles did, Exnd. 8.40. when the Magicimms contetied they were ourdone, and cried, Th 5s 7: Finger of God.
29 But heanſivered, and ſaid unto them, An evil and adulterous generation ſceketh after a fign , and there ſhall no ſign be given to ir, but the ſign of the prophet Jonas.
40 *Foras Jonas was three days 2nd three nights *Jon. 1.15: in the whales belly : ſo ſthall the Son of Man be - three nights and three nights in the heart of the earth, | An Evil and Adulterous Generation.) Either called 4dultcro:u; for thar Specifical Sin which reigned amongſt them, (and indeed their Polygamy was hardly better ) orelfe, becauſe ot their De- generacy trom ALraham whom they ſo much gloried in as their Father, Fob, 8. 39, 44. | Seeketh after a Sign | nor ſatisfcd with | My Miracles which I do on Earth, they would have a Sign from ' Heaven, God was nor difhcult. of confirming and encouraing
People's Faith by Signs. He gave Gideon 4 Stn upon Ins askins ; he gave Hezehich,and proterred Ahuz a Sin without askitnyz;, Eur he had already piven the Phuriſces Signs cnuuh , and furtcient ro convince them ; but they would not believe, but cut ot cu- rio'iry would have a Stgn ot ancther kind ; a Styn trom Heaven, as M.rh expounderh it, cp. 8, 11. Such a Sizn, as the Deri/ could not Counterteit, | There ſhait no Sign be given to it, | no Sizn of that Nature; for we ſhall find , char alter this Chriſt Wrought many Miracles : Burt they ſhall have a Sizn when I ſhall be riſen again trom the Dead to rheir Contution and Condemna- tion, when I fha!l Anfiver rhe Prophet Jonas |.1s Type of me.
He was caſt into the Sza , and was three days ard three nights in the Belly of the Whale , mn the Heart of the Sea, Jonas 1. 17.
And then the Whale womited him out upon the diy I.ind , chap. 2,
So I ſhall be by them violently pur to Death, and ſhall be in the Grave part of three Days and three Nights, and then I (hall rife again from the Dead. Bur here ariſcri1 a Difficulty ; Chriſt in- deed dying the Day betore the Fewiſh Sabbath, and riſing the Morning afrer, might be faid ro be in the Grave three Days, he- cauſe he was there part of three Days ; bur how can ke be f:id ro have been there three Nights & For he was only 12 the Gr2ve the Night ot rhe Jewiſh Sabbarh,{(tor their Sabbath began ar cl. Even- ing betore) and the Night following, which were bur ewo Niukes, either in whole, or in part, Anſw, What we call Day and Ni-bt, made up the Jewiſh vv;93ues. It appears by Gen. 1. 5. that the Evening and the Morning made up a D.ry, Three Davs and three Nights is with us bur the fame thing wich chree Natural Days, and fo it muſt be underſtood here. Chrift was in the Grave three Natural Days ; Gat 1s, part of three Natural Days, every one of which Days contained a Day and a Night, viz. Twenry-tour Hours.
41 The men of Nineveh ſhall riſe in judgment
with this generation, and {hall condemn it, becaulſc they repented at the prexching ot Jonas: and behold 4 greater than Jonas 1s here.
The Story of the Men of Ninzveh we have in Fomah, ch1Þ. 2. 5. Lube repearerh the ſame Patſage, Luk. 11.32. | Toe Men of Nine» veh ſhall riſe in judgment , | that 18, ſhall ar che General Refur- region riſe , and ſtzind up in Judgment as Witneſſes azainſt the Scribes and Phariſees, and the other Unhelicving Zews of this Aze, and ſhall be Inſtruments, as to thar Condemnarion, whic!! God ſhall thar Day pronounce againſt chem. Why ? | Becw's thoy repented at the preaching of Jonas : and beheld a greater than Fonus is here.) Jonas was a Stranger to them z he wrought no Miracles amongſt them to confirm that he was {nt of God, he only came, and cried , Tet forty d-ys , and Nineveh ſhall ve a2- #;1zed; yer they repented, if not 7r4ly and ſircerely, yet in a»- pearance ; they ſhewed rthemlelves to be atffeted with what 7:7 gh
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