Marb faith the ſame, Ch. 9. t. 9. Lnko faich, C1. 9. 35. They Ft it cloſe, ard told ny Man in thye Dys, any 191/e things which thy bad ſecn. te other two Evangelifts record the Precepr, 1:1. and Mark their Obedience to ir. The moſt probable Rea- {1 of rhis Charge given by Interpreters is, left his atter-Sufferings \h-u'd have ſhaken azain their Fairh as ro the Divine Nature of Chrift, betore he was by his Refurretton from ric Dcad declared t) le the Sn of God with Power, as the Apoſtle ſpeaks, Aom. 1. 4.
19 And his diſciples asked him, ſaying, * Why then {iy the Scribes, that Elias muſt firſt come ?
Beiore theſe Words, Mark faich, Ch. 9. v. 10, And they kept thit $13 ins with themſelves ; queſtioning one with another, what this riſing from the De.td ſhould me.m 2 Then he adderh, And they asb- et him, {yying, Why ſay the Scribes that Elias muſt fir8t come £ The Diſciples (as appearech) were as yer very impertedly inftrutted in th- DoGrine of Man's Redemprion by Chriſt, cho' Chriſt had betore told them, that as 7onah was Three Days and Three Nights in the Bully of the Whale, fo he ſhould be Three Days aad Tiree Niohrs in the Belly of the Eart', How dull are the beſt of Men ro apprehend Spiritual Myſteries, which are above the Reach of our Aer 2 The Fews had a Tradition, and recain 1c to this Day, Tiarbeirc the coming of the Mefts, Elias ſhould come; they build ic up2n, M1. 4. 4, 5. That they had ſuch an ExpeQation appearerh by their fendiaz to Fobn ae Baptiſt, John 1. 21. to know if he were he, merning Eliw the Tiſhvite, (for him they ex- p2#ed ) and ri1is was their great Error, and till blindech them, The Di/ciples had now ſeen Elijah, and pofſib'y might wonder at our Saviour's forbidding them ro ſpeak oi tne Viſion, as chink-
inz that nothin could a1>re conduce to the receiving of him as the Iſt + Or, poiſibly eney might wonder ar Zlijah's fo ſoon ieavinz the Earth, the Mi. being conic, whom they expett- ed he ſhould come before : So as tho' they were fully farished, thar Chriſt was the true Meſſiah, yer they knew nor how to re- concile their Faith to the Promiſe, or to their Tradition builr pon the Promiſe. This cauſeth the Queſtion,
11 And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaid unto them, Elias try thall firſt come and reſtore all things.
i 2 But I ſay unto you, Thar Elias is come alrea- a. and they knew him not, but have done unro him whatioever they liſted: likewiſe ſhall alſo the Son vi 7:40 fufter of them.
12 Then the diſciples underſtood that he ſpake uito them of John the Baprilt.
Mak ſaith, Chap. 9. 12. He anſwered, and ſaid unto them, Elias wWiily comes firſt, and reſtoreth all things : And how it #s written of the Simof Man, that he muſt ſuffer many things, and be ſet at nought. But I ſay unto you, That Elias 1s indeed come, and they have done unto him whatſoever they liſted, as it #s written of him. Our Savi- our a;recth to the Promiſe, bur ſhewerh rheir Miſtake as co the truce Senſe of ir, They underſtood the Promiſe of Eltas the Tiſh- bit; the Promiſe reterred only to one of his Spirit, and ſuch a one was cone, that was 79m the Baptist, as the Angel rold Za- C04#1.45, Luk. 1.17, H: ſh4tl go before him in the Spirit and Power of Eli:s, Very much of the Power and Spiric of Elijah was evident mfbn, Eljj.zh was full of Zeal tor God, 2 Kings 9. 10. So was fm the Brit, Did Elias treely reprove not only Baal's Prieſts, but even A1.c5 and Jezebel ? John as fiecly reproved Herod and Horodits, and the Phariſees and Sadduces, Was Elizs an auſtere Min? Such was 7ohn the Baptift, Did Elias flee unco the Wil- dcrnets to tive his Lite? John Baptift for tome time, itved and preacited there. Elizs living in a corrupt time, was a great Means, cr laftrument, to reſtore decayed &e/igiom. So was Fobn the Baptis
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Jes uy, bur fome Chriltins, and tiiat not only Papists, bur lome Prorz//znts think, Thar beſides the Eljas, which is long mee come, there is another Flias, who ſhall come betore the End oe Warldz they found their Opinion upon this Text in a SICIE MENU, I, Becaule our Saviour here ſaith, S754)ae 7720- P94 W9:3t1 come jtrfÞ;, and Mite 1aithgA3or mer, and SH, 99g fit, vreitoreth all things. Now Fohn the Baptis* was botis CM! 20G gone, NOT Aid he reffored all things « Beindes they fly, tat /» denied himfclt wo be E/jzr, John t. 21, And its plain, Ta nt the Scribes and Phurijees only, but the Dilciples under- Itod tic Prophecy of E/jas the Tiff-bite ; and 3at4ciy faith, that Yol, I,
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Elias ſhould come, betore the terrible Day of the Lid; which Dy t:ey fay, is the Day of Judgment, in the conftant Language ©: Scripture. Bur to all this is antivgred, 1, Thar the Zupti?, 7rbr I. 21. only denied him:telt ro be char Elizs about which ti.cy 1N-
quired according to their Tradition,
reQteth their Error. ment 15 called tz terrible Day of the Lird, bur the Gofpel-time, Mat. 3. 10. when the 4x was laid to the Kort of the Tree, NC: So As 2. 20, and the Day of the Fews particular Judgment, which fome underſtand hinred in thofe Texrs, 4.” Thar our Lord frft repeateth the Words of lic, and to he faich, Elizs ſhall come, or is coming ; and then he expounds the Words of Mal.xchy of Fohn the Baptift. 5. Thar the Words of Mal. 4. 6. 4re expounded by the Angel, Luke 1, 15, 17, and-there applied wo F2-n the Baptit, 6. Thac Fohn did tulal che Vords of che Prophet, by indeavouring the Converſion of the Jews, and pre- valling in a grear meaſure. 7. Thar the laſt Words in Malachy, Leſt T ſmite the Earth with a Curſe, plainly ſhew, Thar the Texr 1a 3/z/achy cannot be underſtood of the Day of Fudgment, And tho' the Name of Elias be given to John, yer it is no more than the piving the Name of David ro the Meſſizs, Exch. 37. 24. So as there 15no other Elijah to be expetted, bur the Eljjab prophc- tied of by Malachy, who was (as our Saviour doth expound ir } 7m the Baptist, whom Herod had beheaded. { They knew hin nt, | Their Tradition blinded them fo, as they could not diſcern the Prophecy of Malachy tulfilled in him ; | fo did unto hinr wh.t-
ſever they liſted, | and (faith our Saviour) 15 ſhall chey do with
the Son of Man; thar is, with me, who am the Son ot Man:
14 *Ard when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneclins Cown ro him, and ſaying,