ble, 2. Nor are they reckoned up in Order. 2. The Top Commandment 15 exprefled by, 7h5z ſhalt Ire th; "> oak thy ſelf + Which elſewhere our Savicur calls the tecond Sia Commandmenr, and makes Comprehenfive of all the "hy ments of the ſecond Table. We mult not from cur "+ ona Order here in the Enumeration ot the Commandmenr: of. conclude, thar the Precepts of the ſecond Table are greater 5, thoſe of the firſt, or thar it is enough to keep them, in . Erernal Lite : Nor yer, that che Fitch Commandment is letfer 1 wn che Sixth, Seventh, Eighth , Ninth, becauſe ir is. put afhfr them. Bur, 1. Our Saviour had reckoned up Commanders "Bois ro convince this Man, that he could not by keepins the c - mandments hope for Erernal Life. 2. He had reckoned to. by ſome of which he intended by aud ty co convince lim oO he had not kept the Commandments. 3. And thoſe of the N-n. Obſervation ot which ir was moſt cafie to convince him. & The Phariſees lookt upon theſe as the moſt vulgar and efie Com. mandments. 5. Becauſe Love to our Neighbour is an excellen: Evidence of our Love to God. As concerning the Order : which rhey are Enumerared , ir was not our Saviour's hufine:
» LICtS here to ſhew which was the greateſt Commandment; thar þ. hach elſewhere determined; calling, Thou ſhalt love the L;d ;1, God with ail ry Heart, Sc. the firſt and great Commandmey;
Here he 15 not Solicirous about the Order.
20 Th? young man ſaith unto him, All theſ things have I kept from my youth up: what lack Iyct: Thofe Words, Wh.it lack I yet ? cce not in Mark or Lube, The youns Man underſtood theſe Commandments according to the Pj. riſees Interpretarion of them , who as we heard, ch.zp. 5. inter. preted them only as Prohibiting the Overt-Adts, nor the inward Luſts and HMorions of the Hearr, rogerher with the Means or Occaſions leading ro ſuch Afts. Paul faith, He had not known Ly, if the Law had not ſaid , Thu ſhalt not covet, Rom. 7. 7, Men thar deceive themſelves with talſe Glofles and Inrerprecations may think they keep the Commandments of God, and be very conj. denr of a Righreouſneſs in themſelves. Bur it is impoſſible orher; ſhould be ſo : { What lack T yer ©] He expetted Chriſt ſhou!d have fer him ſome new Task, and was not aware that he only wanted a better Knowledge and Underftanding of the Law, convince him of his miſtake.
21 Jeſus ſaith unto him , If thou wilt be perk&, * go and fell that rhou haſt , and give to the pocr, and thou ſhalt have treaſure in heaven: and com: and tollow me.
Mark repeats it thus, Chap. 10. 21. Then Feſus behvldirg lin, lrued him, And ſaid unto him, One thing thou lacke8f, 61th; x. ſell whatfhever thou ha# and give to the Poor, and thou ſhal: ka Treaſure in Heaven , and come, take up thy Croſs, and fiilw n., Luke, chap. 18. 22. repeats it as Matthew, only he begins ic ith, One thing thou lackhet. Mark ſaith, that Jeſoes beholding tin, [weed him; not with a ſpecial faving Love, (for he ſent himaiy ſad; upon his going, he tells his Diſciples that ir was a ie hard thing fcr a Rich Man to come to Heaven , he tells hin, One thing was wanting to him) bur he loved him wir fuct a common Love, as he loverh all his Creatures with, and mire eſpecially ſuch as are better than others, All char can be con cluded trom hence is, That Ads of Moral Righteouſneſs pleafing to God. He ſaith to him , [If thou wilt be pofeb:! That is, in keeping the Commandments of Gced. The P:3 make a great deal of ſtir to found upon this Text, their C:- cels of Perfe&tiom. As if Chriſt here were adviſing only the your; Man to do ſomething beyond whar the -Law ſtri&ly required, i order to a more perfett Stare ghan' others. Bur that this cat nor be the Senſe of the Words will appear to him, who v! diligently conſider, 1. Thar this had been needleſs tor our viour; for direQing the young Man to keep the Communin:r!, in order to his obtaining Everlaſting Lite , had fſuffcient!y & clared that 'the keeping of the Commandments was Perte(tia enough. 2. He ſays, One thing is wanting to thee ; That 141 order to thy obtaining Everlaſting Life ; which had not been, if our Saviour had granted him to have kept all the Cymr ments; for he had betore ler him know, char the keeping t: was ſufficient, Our Saviour therefore, by this Speech only enr vours to convince him,that he had nor kept all the Commanane"!s But ir may be objeted , How could that be ® For there wa ny Come mandment that oblized him to e9 ſell all that he had , and g'« "' the Poor 2 I anſwer: There was a Commandment , Tt '* ſhould love the Lord his God with all his Heart,and Soul,and Streng"; which he could not do, unlefs he had an Keart ready t9 0X) any Command God ſhould lay upon him ; which our di puts upon the Tryal by this ſpecial Precept. 2. There vs Commandment, That he ſhould love his Neighbour as himielf, any that he ſhould not C5wvet. Now not to be ready at the Commanin" of God liberally to relieve the poor Members of Chritt, argueo 4 Covetous Mind, more in love with his Eſtate, than wit! (00; So as though this was nor before ſpecially Commanded , \e * was Commanded generally, and thar he would have urcer ftood , had he rightly underſtocd the Law of God ; elpeCid! having ſuch a Promiſe annexed, as Thou-ſhalt have Treaſure 1" ven. 3. Nor muſt all the Command be taken to be included : thoſe Words, Go /ell all that thou ha and give to the Poxr, oat , - following Words muſt alſo be caken in , And come, ind 16 up the Cr1fs, and follow me. PerteQion here is not made 70 jt in a voluntary Poverty only, bur 1n coming atter, and tfo110%"z of Chriſt with a free raking up of the Croſs, In ſhort; No ot can be perfe& in keeping the Commandments of God , rat an mt live God with all his Heart, Soul, and Strength : Nor FR b Q Man pretend to this, that hath not an Hearc ready £9 096) ©
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