of himſelf, bur of the Meſſt.:h whom they expetted ? Who he ſhould be? They ſay unto him, {The Son of David "Joy Son one who ſhould in a right Line be delcerded irom 7 , "2 Ss, was a conſtane and uncontrouled Tradition am-nsft - Tis Hence Mark ſaith, the Queſtion was propounded p46 ages ; Scribes * Luke, hw ſay they, that Chrijt is, that is is 54 ” | ON Son of David / This was a common received Opinion _ e d them, which our Saviour by the next Werds doth n-: TIN di&, but only argucth that he muſt needs be fomcrhins mg * For (faith he) { How then doth David in Spirit eall him "atv 4y . | BED Pſal. 110. 1. Mark ſaith, -David himſelf ſaid by the Hily C1. bot David was a Prophet, and ſpake by Inſpiration trom the H - Ghoſt. A&s 1.16. 77 2, 30. Luke ſaith, in the Pſalms woes we may obſerve, thar Pal, 110. was David's Palm, not 4 rn compoted by ſome other jor David, as ſome contend. gps David have called him Loyd, whom he knew to be mecrly Ns ms One that ſhould only deſcend from him? He would have ſia . The Lord ſaid to my Son, or will ſay to my Son. { The L197 rx h Fehouah ſaid to my Lord : Sit thou on my right Hand.) Would Di via ſpeaking Propherically by the Holy Ghoſt concernins "1 ; = Meſſiah, had he believed he was to be his Son, and no Sg ; wy have ſaid, that ebwah ſhould ſay unto him, ſit on my p;.." | Hand, a Place of the higheſt Honour, Dignicy, and Favour, Fen
til I make thy Enemies thy Fortjtool, \ that is, for ever? For w;j1 ord doth nor fiznifte a Dererminate time, See the Nores on Ch i F | 25. | If David then call hiia Lord, hyw 4s he then his $9n ? ] Tha b rf is, how 15 he then no more than his Son, no more than 1 _ ds
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he was the Me145 himſelf, bur that their expeFed Meſſics or Qu Chriſt muſt be more than a meer Man, otl:erwife D:vid would ite never have called him Ld; nor yet prophefied, that Tebruh hin:s ſhould call him to Sit at his Right Hand. Matthew concludes with oh re telling us, that as the Sadduces and rhe Scribes were Non-pluſt of 61d before; 10 now the P/7.771jees Mouths were alſo ſtopped. 23; Which ſaich, rhe Common People heard him gladly. Matthew faith, [ Bs They Man was able to anſwer him a Word, neither durſt any 2.m ad hin Law C any more Queſtions, Nor ſhall we hear of their croublins him Endea with Diſpures any more; they now ſee Diſputing will not @ tliem, their Buſineſs; rheir next Buſineſs is ro confule how to take 4. their 1 way his Life, which is always the Courſe of Proud and Maliciy pretfin Men, given over of God to ruin, to conceal their Convictions £501, and proceed to execute their Luſts and Malice, rather han they In dcil will not have their Ends, Burt before they meer. with a fir 0p- tian ch portunity, we ſhall have ſome excellent Diſcourſes from gu; ot Hun Saviour to the Diſciples, and the Mulritnde. Compa! " £ - ?
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Chrift exhorteth the Multitude, and his Diſciples, to obſerve their large Dottrine, but not imitate their Prattice. The reaſon why, 11, Our Shewing their Ambition, exhorteth his Diſciples to beware of them fo WhAr 5—12, Denounceth Woe for their hindring the Goſpel, dewing not OI Widows Houſes ; for their Covetouſneſs, for preferring the G1{i;- 02MeS | fore the Temple, and the Offering before the Altar : For theiryi- rm, £9 ciſeneſs in ſmall, but negleet of weightier Matters : And fir thir ances of Hypocriſie, in External Obſervance, and Inward Wickhedneſs, 13=%%, tacir Mc He threateneth them with Eternal Deſtru&ion, for 4buſang al is CHEIP T Killing his Meſſengers; and pathetically bewails the ſaid Eft cn tem and Condition of Feruſalem, 34—39. [.vge the
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heard him atrencively and gladly, Mar. 12. 37. Lk. 15. 4% Bl; Colo Our Saviour foreſaw that ſome unwary Hearers might make minded t rwo 111 uſes of what he had ſpoke againſt the Scribes and Phi member aj ſees. 1. Some might report him an Enemy to the Lazy, tle reſtrainec Interpreters of which the Phariſees were. 2.Others might contemn Service, the Authority of the Law, becauſe he had repreſented theſe Men, other Pzc in whoſe Hand the Interpretation of it at preſent was, ſo cruly con- Bind his remptible: Whereas, ' on the other fide, many might run int? torn thej Errors of PraRice, from the Example of the Scyibes and Phari?:s, web the their Magiſtrates and Teachers, Againſt all theſe Miſtakes I i: their # caurions them in this Chapter; ſhewing, that he did nor under-
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Moſes Seat : | Theſe Men were the ordinary Readers and Infer- larting th preters of the Law of God. Moſes is here pur for the Lav, ® Fi: v Luk. 16. 31. If they hear not Moſes and the Prophets : And fo v. 25 leen of N
They have Moſes and the Prophets. Atoſes his Seat fignifierh the * =o Seat appointed for thoſe that gave the Sence of the Law, or Jus” 64 ment upon ic; thus Ads 15. 21, 2 Cor. 3. 15. Moſes in old time ie chi hath in every City thoſe that preach him, being read in the S195 + every Sabbath-day. Their way was, while they Read the Scrip of A tures, they Stood up, (paying a particular Reverence to the pure wo
Word of God) Luk. 4.15. when they had done Reading, rhe? = h; Sate down and opened it, Their Sitting in the Sear of 31es cid a <p nor ſignifie a Succeſſi:n tro Moſes, ( for he had no Succeſſor, bills Þ- vr Savi the Mediator of the Old-Teſtament,) bur the delivering and ner” Ry,
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