dom ci God is at hand repent ye, and believe the goſpel. ' : ;
It ſhould ſeem that 7341 had but a ſhort time, wherein he ex- erciſed his vablick Miniſtry 3 he was the Son ofa Prieſt, Zachartas, Luk 1 13. and it 15 proSidle that he centred not upon his publiek Minijiry till he was thirty years of £ge. (it was the Sacerdotal Aze, and the Age at which Lybe telleth us our Saviour entred up- on iis publick Miniſtry z) He wis but abut fix Months older than our Szyicur, and was impriſoned as ſoon as our Saviour entred upon his Miniſtry ; indecd before we read of his Entrance upon
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2n, but of few that believed it him {| Fo be it bad Authority. | A fmell Cerivative from tis, the Gravity, awful Preſence and Authority (which as , of God ) we fee {till given ro faine faithful N:izilicys luch eſpecially as God maketh a mere eminent uſe < vertion of Souls. But this great Preacher nad mane meaſure | ngt as rhe Scribes, | the ordinary 7ews, who read their Lectures of th without Life and Power, as the Hearts or the Poop!'e | at all affe:ted with them, no more than with the @u; tel/ins
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it. Upon his Imprifonment, Chriſt beginneth to Preach in Ga- lilce the Goſpel by which he fet up his Kingdom, and which leadeth Men to the Kingdom of God. | And ſaying, The time is ſulfite! ,] the time determined of God tur the Revelation of the Meſſiss, ard the Grace of the Gofpel through him,foretold by the Prophets, Dain. 2. 44. Hei:ce Chriſt 15 laid to have come in the tulneſs, and in the dijpenjation of the fulneſs of :1me, Epheſ. 1. 10.
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Gal.5. 4. 4nd the Kin:dom of Gal is at hand | the gracious Diſpen- ſation vo! Gcd in the Goſpel is at hand,or hath approached. | Repent #2] Turn from the wickedneſs of your ways,andy belzeve the Goſpel, } or in 1h» goiret s, to believe the Gejpel 15 one thing,to helzeve in the Galbe! Cs it 1 thee in tic Greeb) is another. The former Phraſe fonif.s romore thin arm and fhxed affent to the Propoſetion of
the Golbet s, bi to betrewe tu the Goſpel, 15 to pizce our hop: of Sal- vatian tn the Podtrine aud Promiſes of the Cofpel, which are the proximate Out of our Fatth, tho' the primary Object of it be the Pon tf the Mediator. There'is a Repent.mee, that muſt go be- fore E.airh, that iz, the Applicative ofthe Viomiſe of pardoning Mcrc: to the Scul, tho true Evangelical Repentance, which 15s a Sorrow for Sn, towing from the Scnie of the Love of God in Chriſt, be the Fruit and Efffett or Faith. Our Saviour's Preach- 162 4grceith with the Baptiſts, Mat, 3. 2. Toh. 3. 23.
i6 Now as he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he ſaw Simon and Andrew his brother caſting a net into the {ca, tor they were hlhcrs.
7 And Jeſus ſaid unto them, Come ye after me, and 1 will make you to become Fithers of Men.
< wat. 1. 18 4nd ſtraightway they * forſook their nets, and
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he ſaw James the ſor of Zebedee, and John his brother, who alio were in the ſhip, mending therr nets.
20 And ſtraightway he called them, and they left their fathcr Zebedee 1n the ſhip with the hired ſer- yanpts and went after him.
We heard of the Call of theſe four 4p5les before, 11 Matth. 4. 18. In thc Notes upon which, may bc found whatſoever 1s ne- ccifiry for the explication' of theſe verſes, (having norhing new in them} as alſo the reconciling of what ohn ſaith, chap. 1. 4c. about the cathing of Andrew and $7mon to what theſe two Evangeliſts ſay avvut 1t.
12. 21 * And they went into Capernaum, and ſtraight- 1, way on the ſabbath-day he centred into the ſynagogue, and tau: ht.
22 And they were aſtoniſhed at his doQrine, for he
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anunclean ſpirit, and hecried our, 24. S3ying, Let us alone, * what have we to dg with thee, thou Jeſus of Nazareth ? art thon come rq © deſtroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy One of God.
Luke reports the ſame paſſage 3 he ſaith There was a Man 1. had the Spirit of an unclean Devil. The Devil is called an wn;/.., Spirit, 1n oppoſition to the Spirit of God, which 15 the Hily $yi. rit, Tre Man that had this unclean Spirit, or rather the #4! , Spirit in the Man cries out, | Let as alone, what have we t5 with thee? ] He douhtleſs fcared what followed, UF. That he ſhould be catt out. He counts himſelf deſtroyed when be «1p. not do miſchief, like wicked Men, who arc the Seed of old Serpent, who Prov. 4. 15, Sleep not except they have 11; miſchief ; and their Sleep 1s taken away, unleſs they have 1,1;
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It 15 both here and in many other places obfervable, that when the Devi!s made a Confeſſion of Chritt, yet neither Clirilt nor I1s Apoſtles would cver take any notice of it, advantaged from the Confctfion of known Lyars, (as the Devil was from the beginning) Chriſt needs not the Devil's teſtin- ny, cither to his #olineſs, or his being the Sor of God 3 nor would
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