Chap. XX.1. coming t 9 Feruſalem, toob Branches of Pulm-trees, and went foi th to meet him, and cried, Hoſamna : Blejſed be the King of hx My that cometh in the Name of the Lord, They bring the 48, and the (met Colt ty Fejus, who had no Saddle, no coſtly Furniture tor him | they were glad to lay on the Atſes back ſome of their Garments, and to fer Chriſt on the Colt; and in a kind of a natural Coun- try Triumph , made up without any kind of Art; tome threw cheir Cloaths in his way, ſome cur down Bouzhs of P——_ C Palm-Trees faith John) with theſe they beſtre.y the Kio y Chriſt at Bethany in his Journey had done 2 Famous Mics railing up Lazarus trom the Dead, John ſaith, c<:5, 12, 18 os Fame of this made many that were in 7erwulerm, who were come | chicher againſt che Patlover-Time( tor Fob.1 2.1. ir was bur fix Day before the Paſſruer ) go our ro meer him, and joined v.irh hed who came along with him trom Bethany ; they cried all alcn _ they came, AHoſunna to the Son of David, Bleſſed is ho S, po. cometh in :hz Name of the Lord. Hhſanna in the Hiheft, Bl: Jed Js the Kin; ain 'f our Father David, Peace in Seven and > a in the Highef, Many of thefe Expreſſions ſeem to bc taken 2 of Pſal. 118. 24, 25, 26. Their aying the Garmenrs upon the Als, and throwing them in the way, was a Cuſtom they uſed rowards Princes, as appears, not only by many Records cur of Profane Authors, bur irom 2 King. g. I3. Where the like was done to ehy, upon his being Anointed King over J\-ae!l, For the Acclamations, they were alfo ſuch as were ufual to Princes - Whether Hanna ſignifierh, Suve now : Or, {-lp! we pray 4 Or, whether ir was a Term by which they expretled their He tire of G94 Succeſs, or Proſperity to the Pej /-m to whom they apply'd ir: Or, whether it was the Name of fome Song uſed in their Fe/tivals, is not much material; rhey by this Acclamation acknowledged him a King, the Son of David : they Bleſſed him, they withed him Peace, Honour and Glory. Tius was che Acclamation of the Mulcitude, who doubtlefs had but a tmall and impertet knowledge ot the Divine Nature of Chriſt . bur yer looked on him, as the ' S-m of David, as the Meſſi th, "The Phariſees ( ſome of which ir feemerh had mixed chemſelves |. "2\W if | with this Multitude, ) were troubled ar the Acclimation and Ir. | pd ( as Luke tells us ) ſpeak ro Chriſt ro rebuke chem : bur he 7 wy | anſwereth, Tf theſe fhnwld hold their peace, the Stanes "would Im- : | Ni. mediately cry out. It 1s a Proverbial Expreffion » the Senſe of | *3 | | which 1s alone to he attended. The Senſe is this: The Time | |
1s come ſer by my Father tor che Publication of my Kingdom, and 1 Ht | declaring what I am; and when God's Time is come, the Thing " 4: ad "il muſt come to paſs, by one Mean or anvther: If theſe Children od "1s, OR "bt
of Ah5raham ſhould hold their peace, God is able of theſe Stones ro raife up Children to Abraham, and they ſhould do the ſame ching, publiſh me as the Son of David, the Kins in Zion.
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10 * And when he was come into Jeruſalem, all the city was moved, ſaying, Whois this?
1x And the multitude faid , This is Teſus th prophet of Nazareth of Galilee: Jeſus the
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15, 1% (of. Such an unuſual Sight might well affe& a great Number in
Jeruſalem with Admiration and Aſtoniſhmenez the People etpe-
cially giving Honour to him as a King, and calling him the Son
of David , and certainly, bur thar the Meannets of his Appear-
ance, and Meanneſs ot his Followers, put uninterefied Men our
of Fear, and gave Herod , and Pilate tome Security, char there
was no Attempr on Foot againſt che Civil Government , our
Saviour and his Followers would have beer Apprehended, as
Raiſers of a Sedition and Rebelliomm. Bur the Multicude now cave
him no other Title , than that of Feſws the Prophet ; which yer
was enough to diſtinguiſh him from other Prophets ; tor
he was Feſus a Saviour , and the Prophet , forerold , Deuter. 18.
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12 And Jeſus went into the temple of God , and caſt out all them that ſold and bovght in the rem- ple, and overthrew the tables of the money- changers, and the ſeats of rhem that ſold doves:
13 And ſaid unto them, Ir is written, My houſe {hall be called the houſe of prayer, * but ye have made it a den of thieves.
14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
* Jer.7.11-
This piece of the Hiſtory, is related by two of the other Evan- gelifts, bur wich grear difference. Lube before this, men- cioneth a Diſcourſe upon the way, upon our Saviour's firſt fighe of the Ciry, and his Prophecy of the Deftruftion of ir; bur no other Evangeliſt mentioning 1c, I ſhall paſs it over, till I come ro his Hiſtory, Mark hath rhis part of the Hiſtory thus, chap. II. IT. And eſis entered into Feruſalem, into the Temple, and when he had lobed round about upon all things , and the Evens tide was come, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve. And on the ' morrow , when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry. —» ( Then he relates our Saviour's curſing the .barren Fig-Tree, WE if; which I leave till I come 'to ir 1n order, ) Ver. 15. And they REP He come to Feruſulem , and Jeſus went into the Temple, and began to VERS: ca8t out them that ſold and bought in the Temple, and overthrew the Meg 999 Lung Tables of the Money-changers, and the Seats of them that [ld Doves , and would not ſuffer that any Man ſhould carry a Veſſel throgh the Temple. And he taught, ſaying unto them , Is it not written, My Fuſe ſhall be called of all Nations the Houſe of Prayer ? but y»u have made it a Den of Thieves. And when the Even was come , he went out of the City, ver. 19. Luke ſaith , chap. 19.45. And he went into the Temple , and began to ca$t out thyje that jold therein, and thoſe that bought, ſaying to them, It is written, My Horſe is the Houſe of Prayer, but you have made it a Den of Toieves. — And he taught daily in the Temple. Ir is plain by all the Evanzeliſts,
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