of the Apoſtles. Ir is fir Men ſhould a& as Rarional Creature, underſtanding what they do. And there is a Teaching which muſt follow Baptiſm ; for Baptiſm without Obedience, and 1 livin; up to that Covenant in which we are engaged, will ſave n25$ +], bur lay it under a greater Condemnation. The Apoſtles might Teach nothing but what Chriſt had Commanded them ; and they were bound ro Teach whatſoever Chriſt had Commanded rhem. Here now 1s the Rule of the Baptized Perſon's Obedience, We are bound to no Obedience, but of the Commands of Chri$, and to : j' 21 Obedience of them , under the Penalty of Eternal Condenn.@.” When Mark ſaith, He that Believeth, and 4s Baptized, {4 (+ \-- ved ; it doth not imply that Baptiſm 1 abſolutely neceilury i 31. vation, or inthe ſame order with Faith in Chri/t ; bur chat the Ct tempt of it 1s Damnable, as being a piece of Preſumprivay; 112i ence 3 and ſuch a Faith is to be underſtood here, under > Not on of Believing as worketh by Love. [ And Io, I am with yi! a: way, even to the end of the World, 1 am, and I will be with y6#,and thoſe who ſucceed you in the Work of the Migiſtry, beinz called of me thereunto : I will be with you, prote&ing you, and upho! ding that Ordinance, and bleſſing you, and all others of mv Fatt ful Miniſters that labour for making Me and my Goipel know! with ſucceſs to the End of the World ; nor of this Age ovly. Vt the World : My Miniſtry begun it you, ſhal! nor fail ; nor ſha//'4 adding cf Souls ro the number of them who ſhall be ſaved (454 Token of my gracious Preſence with you ) fail, till the Worid ſhall be derermined, and che New Hevens 29nd the Nov E479 ſhall appear. What Mark addeth c5.. --0*ng the Signs 70 ſhould follow thoſe that believed, had a parcicuiar reference 59 5: Times immediately following Chriſt's 4erfron into 7:77, ard to be underſtood of rhoſe Xfiraculous Operations winch were 120k wrought by the 4poles, and others, for a furtj:0; uu inatol the Dofrine of the Goſpel by them Preached. Matthew 1435 05 thing of them here. There is no promiſe of Chriſt's Preenc with his Miniſters, to enable to ſuch Operations to the £7 0 7 World ; bur with his Miniſters, Preaching, Baptizirg, and 72" - Men to obſerve and to do whatſoever he hath commanded then, Ic tl promiſed 70 be, till Time ſhall be no more.
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The ARGUMENT. Haut the Author of this Compendious Hiſtory of the Goſpel, was none of the rweivue BEE. 5: evutent foe; 1/9 Till read over their Names, Matth. 10, and Mar. 3- That he WA4s 0Ne of the Sevent; . whom Cirilt f: ot out afterwards, ts ſaid by ſome, bt upon what Evidence I canner tell. That he was a Di/t:n!; of Cori ;5 oat of queſtion. T here was one John, ſurnamed Mark, AQts 12. 12. Some wmnk he was ET, ys _—_ 6- thys Gojpel, but others doubt it, the Antients always callirg him Mark. We read of a Mark, Siffer”s 39:19 Bari! t Col. 4. 10. and we read of Mark imployed in the Miniſtry, 2 Tim. 4. 11. Peter calls one of this Name tis Sor i Pet. 5. 13 Paul calls one of this Name his fellow Labourer, Philem. v.24, He who was ſurname Matk Cad; 1 lobn 45 bis Prenomen) went along with Barnabas to Cyprus, «pon the diſſe:; fſioa betwixt Paul and bim, A6ts 16.2 How many diſtintt Perſons are mentioned in Scripture of this Name, and whuh of them was the Evangelift, we # 2. rot light enough in Scripture to know by (which yet we ſhould not have waned, had it been material for ts 10: bo0 and Writers give an uncertain Sound concerning this Evangeliſt. Some would have lim to be one, {9n.e another. 276 .ave thoug ht thts Goſpel was dictated by Peter to Mark. We gre alſo told, that he wrote this Hijto; y at Rome, t#4: Preached the Coſpel inEgypt, and was the firſt Biſhop of Alexandria,where be was buried, dy:ns i the Eighth year of Nero. Theſe are the things which Men may believe,or forbear to believe, as they ſeeRe fſon,coming *9 45 only up the Credit of Writers, who are ſaid to have rote, what we havec* their Writings, at leaſ three k:41dred Years ajter Mark's time. oft valuable Imerpreters agree him to have wrote in Greek,tho' a Native jewgand weil underlt andins
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GHAP. [. let us know that he was more then meer Man, And indeed whe, but he who was the Son of Gf, cold faly reveal his bather's Wilt ; determine th? Law of 3595s, 2nd introduce a new was of Wuorlhip, ana | Jonth «- we iery of Salcation, bid from al pro- ceding Ages, tlio, not from all indiv; nu! Porn in them :
'it ariving Chritt into the Wilderncys, is tempred of Satan forty - As It IS WPLCTCN Li Une PYOP! . 7 ESCHAE &iys , in the end miniſtred wnts by Angels, 12, 13. Fobn being | My Meſſenger betore thy tace, which 514)l prep mp! ET, PFe'us preacheth the Kingdm of Heaven : Calleth Si- way before thee. p ev®,} . -