w1ll be 1n it a mixture of good and bad ; a pertet Separation of mo which, one from another is nor to be expetted until the Day of " Judgment. { Again, the Kingdom of Heaven.) This term fizni- 1 fieth che whole Diipenſation, and Adminiſtration of the Gofpe: fig borh the Grace diſpenſed in it, and the means of that Grace which 6 15 adminiſtred under it. 1 ſhould here interpret ir of rhe Pregc!. JaVs ing of the Goſpel, which 1s called the Word of rhe Kingdom, being 5 the means by which Men are gathered in, both tothe Church vii. DeCz ble,and inviſible : This our Lord herecompareth to a At, thrown If into the Se.z of the World, and garhering in of every kind, bring- INE: ing 1n many to an outward Proteſſion ; all of which ſhall not come Fogg ro the Kingdom of Glory; nor are indeed true Members of Ivirb Chriſt, not Members of the Church inviſible, tho? they be Menz- Ag, bers ot the Church viſible. When the End of the World ſhall key” come, and Chriſt ſhall have accompliſhed his Defign in the Pe World, then a Day of Judgment ſhall come, and there ſhall be x 4 Vic perfet&t Separation betwixt ſuch as received the Goſpel in Truth, and them 1n the Love of it,and others; the former ſhall be caken to Heayen, he ap and the larter thrown into Hell; which he expreſleth by the like with a Phraſes which he had before uſed in the Parable of the Tyre; yrs which need no further Explication, : a 51 Jeſus faith unto them, Have ye underſtood all Pere. theſe things ? they ſay unto him, Yea, Lord. G's A Conſcientious Teacher will have a reſpe& to the Profit of his os Ju Hearers. Chriſt here ſerteth us an Example; asking his Difti- wage ples it they had underſtood all theſe things ; as well thoſe Para- + of bles of which he had given them no particular Explication, as gs thoſe he had explained. They ſay unto him, Tea, Lord , we have Suk underſtood them. Commer) 52 Then ſaid he unto them, Therefore every ſcribe, which is inſtructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man that is an houſholder, which bring: Bends eth forth out of his treaſure things new and old. ard þ Seeing you underſtand theſe things, communicate your know- Perle ledge of them unto others; do not know for your ſelves alone, Sick, [ Every Scribe that is inſtrufted to the Kingdom of Heaven.) The with f Scribes, amongſt the Jews , were nor only Clerks that were im- Ship-b ployed in Wriring, but Teachers of the Law; ſuch a one was Ezra, Fed, chap. 7. 6. Our Saviour here, by Every Scribe inſtruded to the bun, a Kingdom of God , underitanderh every good Miniſter of the Goſpe!, ies firred ro promove the Kingdom of God , to be imployed in the nia bo Church of God, ſhould be like a good Houſholder, that hath not Son of his Provifion to feck when his Gueſts come; but hath a full: the to fraughr Score-houſe, and hath nothing ro do, but our of his Stack and Store-houſe, to bring our all ſort of Proviſion , according to 7 rhe various Palates of his Gueſts, Miniſters of che Goſpel ſhouts A nor be Novices, 1 Timoth. 3. 6. raw and ignorant Men , bur Mc mighty in the Scriptures, well acquainted with the Writings of 2 Ar the Old and New Teſtament, and the Senſe of them; Men that Baptiſt have a ſtock of Spiritual Knowledge, able readily ro ſpeik 4 9.7 might Word to the weary, and to ſpeak to Men and Womens particular Fy 2, / Caſes and hg rs 53 And it came to paſs, that when Teſus had he Fg : finiſhed theſe parables, he departed thence. {Wea 54 And when he was come into his X own coun- 11, 2 Kingdom
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