diſcerO , thing and do 4 might believe 1n Me, believes - A wicked and adulterous generation ſeeketh after a fign, and there ſhall be no fign given unto it,
but the fign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them,
d departed. : We —_ witch the ſame Anfſiver given to the Phariſees, chap.
2, You pretend your ſelves ro be the Children of Abra- ham | bur you are Baſtards , rather than his Children: He ſaw my day afar off , and rejyced ; you will not believe, rhough you e me amongſt you, and ar your Doors : He telieved without any Siznz you will nor believe though I have ſhewed you many <in:; You ſhall have no tuch Sign as you would have; the Sin of the Prophet Fonah is enough. Bur in our Lord's former retereace of them to the Prophet Fonah, he inſtanced in one particular, VIR- his being three Days and three Nights in the Belly of the Whale. Here he ſeemeth more generally co reter to Fonah is @ Type of him in more reſfpetts, which indeed he was. Chanmitizs reckons them up thus: 1. Jonas was chrown into the Sea by rhe Mariners, tO whom he had betruſtcd himſelf: Chriſt was del:vered to Death by the Jews, to whom he was ſpecial promiled, 2. Fonas was willingly chrown into rhe Sea: Chri [2id down his Gife , and Man took it not from him. 3. Zones, by being caſt into the Sea, ſaved thoſe in the Ship : Chriſt, by his Death, ſaved the Children of Men. 4. Jonas, after he had been in the Whale's Belly three Days, was caſt upon dry Land: Criſt , after tkree Days, roſe ayain from the Dead. 5. The Ninevite;, though upon the Preaching of Fonah, they made a ſhew of Repenrance; yet returning to their tormer Sins, were ſoon after deſtroyed ; ſo were the Jews, within Forty Years after Chriſt's Aſcenfion. So as Jonas was many ways an eminent Sign and Tjpe of Chrif ; our Lord having referred them to ſtudy this Sign, would entertain no more Diſcourſe with them, but leaves and deparreth from them. Mark faith, chap. 8. ver. 13. that he entering into the Ship again , departed to the other fide, ( the Ship which brought him to Dalmarutha, or Magdala) and went 1nto the Coaſts of Galilee again,
s And when his diſciples were come to the other fide, they had forgotten to take bread.
6 Then Jeſus ſaid unto them , Take heed , and beware of the leaven of the Phariſees, and of the
Qadduces. - And they reaſoned amongſt themſelves, ſaying, I 7s becauſe we have taken no bread.
Mark faith, chap. 8. ver. 14, 15, 16. Now the Diſciples had for- gntten to take Bread, neither had they in the Ship with them more than one Lozf, And he charged them, ſaying , Take heed, and beware of the Leaven of the Phariſees, and of the Leaven of Herod. And they reaſning among} themſelves, ſaid, It is becauſe we have no Bread. The Ditciples went into the Ship withour raking a due care for Provifion tor their Bodies, which they were ſenfible of when they came on ſhore on the other fide. Chriſt happened, in the mean time to give them a Caution againſt the Do&rine of the Phariſees and Sadduces, and Herodians, which he properly expreſſeth (though Metaphorically ) under the Notion of Leaven : This they underſtood nor, bur fancied thac he had ſpoken this ro them, with reference to their want of Bread; as if he had only given them warning , that for che making of Bread co ſupply their Neceffity they ſhould not go to the Phariſees, or Sadduces, or Herodians, fer Leaven or, thar they ſhould not go to buy any Bread of the Phariſees,or of the Sadduces.So dull are we to underſtand Spiritual Things, and ſo ſoon had they forgor the Dofrine which our Saviour had ſo lately caught them , cap. 15. 17, 18. thar choſe things which are foreign to a Man , and come not our of his Hearr, do nor defile a Man, bur thoſe things only which proceed out of his Heart,
8 IWhich when Jeſus perceived, he ſaid unto them, O ye of little faith, why reaſon ye amongſt your {lves. becauſe ye have brought no bread ?
9 Do ye not yer underſtand , neither remember,
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*the five loaves of the five thouſand.and how many
baskets ye took up ? 10 | Neither the ſeven loaves of the four thou-
" ſind, and how many baskers ye rook up ?
11 How is it, that ye do not underttand , that I ipake i not to you concerning bread, thar yeſhould b:ware of the leaven of the Phariſees, and of the Ndduces,
12 Then underſtood they, how that he bad them not beware of the leaven of bread bur ot the do- Cine of the Phariſces, and of the Sadduces.
[Hark giving us an Account of this Paſſage, chap. 8. 17, 18, 19.
ctn ſome harſher Expreſſions : And when Feſus knew it, he ſaid |
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unto them ," Why reaſm ye becauſe ye have no Bread ? Perceive yt not yet , neither underſtand , have ye your Hearts yet hardened 2 Having Eyes, ſee you not ; and having Ears, hear you not ? And ao you not yet remember » when I brake the jive 1.97ves amonest the five thouſand, hww many Baskets full took you up * Toney fay unto him, Twelve. And when the ſeven among8t four thouſand, hw m.ny Baskets full of Fragments took you up ? and they ſaid, Seven, And he ſaid unto them, hw it that you do mt underſtand ® Our Saviour here chargerh them with three things, Jenw.nce, Unbe-
lief, Forgetfulneſl, Tznorance, in thar they did not underſtand -
thar his uſual way was to diſcourſe Spirirual Thinos tc