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Chap. II.
pave him las Sins. What Blaiphcmy was there in this faying, Thy Sins are forgiven thee 2 But wat it none but God coutd forgive Sins ? could alfo any but God te!l unto Men their thoughts 2? x Chron, 28, 9. 2 Chron. 6. 30. Pjal. 7. g* For. 17.10. 1 Sam. 1647. That Chriſt could tc!l their thoughts, was matter of Demonſtra-
S. M ARK:
tion to them, ver. 6,8. Why might they not alſo have allowed him a Power to forgrue Sins ? But they could not for this charge him with Blyphemy, which was their malicious De- iign. ; 13 And he went again forth by the Sea-ſide, and all the multitude reſorted to him, and he taught them. 2
Still it is faid he fanght them, thereby letting his Miniſters know what is their Great Work: And therefore they ſhould be Perſons apt to teach, as Paul direteth Timothy.
+ Mat. 9.c. 1+ Andas he paſſed by, * he ſaw Levi, tbe ſor of
Luk. 5. 27. Alphens, ſitting at the receipt | of cuſtom, and ſaid |! Or,the Ca- unto him follow me. Aud he aroſe, and followed
ſt»m-houſe, him. _= 15 And it came to paſs, that as Jeius ſat at meat in
Cuitzn was his houſe, many publicans and ſinners fat alſo with Je- paid, ſus, and his diſciples: for there were many, and they followed him. ; :
16 And when the Scribes and Phariſees ſaw him eat with publicans and ſinners, they ſaid unto his diict- ples, How is it that he cateth and drinketh with pub- licans and finners. :
17 When Jeſus heard zr, he ſaid nnto them, They that arc whole, have no need of the phyſician, but they that are ſick. I came not to call the righteous, but ſinners to repentance.
We had this piece of Hiſtory with ſome Addition in Matth,
o. G.(where he was called Matthew ; Marbþ and Luke, both call
him Lev?,}it was ordinary with the Fews to have two Names
"CE See the Notes on MHatth. G. | ik. 2 38 And* thediſciples of John, and of the Phari- © *” fresnſed ro faſt; and they come, and ſay unto him,
Why do the diſciples of John,and of the Phariſees faſt;
but thy diſciples faſt not ?
19 And Jeſus ſaith unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber faſt, while the bridegroom is with them *As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot faſt.
20 But the days will come when the bridegroom ſhall be taken away from them, and then they ſhall 1n thoſe days:
0:,,22,, 21 No man alſo ſeweth a plece of || new cloth on \"*%& an old garment: elſe the new piece that filled it up, = > takcth away from the old, and the rent is made Worſe.
22 Andno man putteth new wine into old bottles, elſe the new wine doth burſt the bottles, and the wine is ſpilled, and the bottles will be marred : but new wine mult be put into new bottles.
See ail this opened in the Notes on Matth. 6. 9,&c. The Sum of all teacheth us, 1. That Faſting 1s an Exerciſe ſuted to Af- five Diſpenſations of Providence, and ought to be proportio- ned to its Seafon. 2, That new converts are not to be diſcou- raged by tco ſevere Exerciſes of Religion, but to be Trained up to thcin by degrees,
23 *Z.nd it came to paſs that he went through
*\ uk. IF . . » %* *” the corn- fields on the ſabbath-day,and his diſciples be-
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* Dcut. 23- ganas they vent to * pluck the ears of corn.
25. 24 And the Phariſces faid unto him, Behold, why do they on the ſabbath-day that which is not law- ful? |
* 1Sam.2s, 25 Andhe ſaid unto them, Have ye never read *
4. what Daviddid, when he had need,and was an hun-
gred, he,and they that were with him ?
26 How he went into the houſe of God, in the days of Abjathar the high-prieſt, and did eat the
* Lcr.24-9. fhew-bread, * whichis not lawful to eat, but for the
prieſts, and ;gave alſo to them which were with him? |
27 And heſaid to them, The ſabbath was made for man, and not man for the ſabbath.
2$ Therefore the fon of man is Lord alſo of the Abbath.
1ood of Abimelech, and probably Abiathar affiſted his Father in
"Ih (ita Mark calls it the Time of his Priefthood. Beſides, that tho. words 6% Aftalas do not neceifurily fipnifice jy the - Abiathar, as we Tranſlate it, no more than 643 alernasts "%y niftes in the carrying into Captivity, but about the time PP the time in which it was, for Ahbimelech was preſencly ditor © (poſſibly within a few days) cut oft, as wo 1cad 1 Sam. 22, 11 18. And Abiathar, was a more noted Man than his yather Ms. melech, enjoying the Pricfthood more than torty' years, and
to David. CHAS. BI.
Chriſt on the Sabbath healeth a withered Hand, 1-5. The p;; ſees Conſpire again8t him : He departeth thence : The Multitute
againſt the Holy Ghoſt ſhall never be forgiven, 21—29, Wha his Brother, Siſter, and Mother, 3—3 5.
there was a man there which had a withercg hand. 2 And they watched him, whether he would lica! him on the ſabbath-day, that they might accuſe him. | 3 And hefaithunto the man that hed a withered hand, Þ Stand forth.
kill ? but they held their peace.
hearts,he ſaith unto the man,Stretch forth thino nand, and he ſtretched zz out, and his hand was reſtore;
whole as the other.