Sce the Notes upon Matth. 12.5. The wordmpuac: uſe, ver. 5. may be underſtood to fignifie Blindneſs, or Hardnejs, 15 i may derive from 7ggs, Callus, or mugs, Cecus ; but the Derivi. tion of it from the tormer beſt obtains 3 Hardneſs being a quality in a thing by which it refiſteth our touch, and ſuffers vs not t5 make an impreſſion upon it ; that ill Condition of the Soul, |; which 1t becomes Rebellious, and diſobedicnt to the Will f God revealed ; ſo as it 1s not affe&ted with it, nor doth it make any impreſſion of Faith or Holineſs upon the Soul, is, as uſua!l; calied, Hardneſs of Heart. But for th2 Argument of this Hitty;y, proving Acts of Mercy lawful on the Sabbath-day,it is fully fhu ken to in the Notes on Matth. 12.
6 And the Phariſees went forth, and ſtraight
they might deſtoy him. 7 Burt Jeſus withdrew himſelf with his diſciples to
the ſea: and a great multitude from Galilee follows! him, and from Judea,
8 And from ſeruſalem, and from Idumea, and fron beyond Jordan,and they about Tyre and Sidon,a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him,
9 And he ſpake to his diſciples, that a ſmall ſip ſhould wait on him, becauſe of the multitude, left the; ſhould throng him.
10 For he had healed many, inſomuch that tlicy
plagues.
11 And unclean ſpirits, when they ſaw him, fc'l _ before him, and cried, ſaying; Thou art the$01 of God.
not make him known.
Who theſe Herodians were, we cannot learn plainly from Holy Writ z it is moſt probable, that they were a Civil Fation, who took Herod's part, and were ſtiff for promoving his intereſt, and the 1utercſt of the Roman Emperor, (whoſe Subſtitute Herod Was) with theſe the Phariſees (in other Caſes their imp'acable Ec: mics) mx Counfels how they might deſtroy Chriſt. Cr gives place to their fury, (his time being not yet eome,) 4% withdraweth himſelf from their fight, being followed by 80 Multitudes, who in the fame of his Miracles, or the hopes £1) had of receiving ſome good from him for themſelves, or for tic! Friends drew after him, Some of theſe are ſaid to have com: from 1dumea, which was the Country of Edom, and diſtinEt iro Zadea anciently, as may be gathered from Fofe 15. 8, and No 34+ But whether it was at this time ſo or no, is doubted. "_ Lord commandeth the Devils not to make him known, not &© {iring any ſuch Preachers,
13 And he goethupintoa mountain, and he cal _ unto him whom he would, and they came une
im. 14 And he erdained twelve, that they ſhould Þ*
'ne Exccution of the Office, and ſo fuddenly ſucceeded, that Frm
with him, and that he might ſend them forth ** 15 Any
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follow him: He healeth their diſeaſed, and cafteth out Di; 6—12. Ordaineth his twelve Apoites to preach and wort« nit; cles, 13—19. The Multitude flock unto him : His friend; elfeem him mad, 20, 21. The Scribes charge ham with having 4 1. vil : He confuteth their Blaſphemy: and ſhaweth, that the 9:,
L ND he * entred again into the synagogue, an; .
4 And he faith unto them, Is it lawful to do good hy on the ſabbath-days, or to do evil ? to fave life, or to
5 And when he had looked round about on ther, 3%: with anger, being grieved for the || hardneſs of ;þ-6j;"
took counſel with * the Herodians againſt him, hor *v;
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preſſed || upon him for to touch him, as many as lad;
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1n the thew Name Cep1a He all bedee, Name SUrs 9 aloud, declar! Spirits, Connſe the nun did not himſelf Tiſciple Nor yet DiIciple Iren *0 Srvice Perſons Lite, 1) mitfon this, tho in the C Ged thy Church, judge as PCarancc 2. God, DMinister, elitrance appeared y then, know, tf the Good ſters. A FCCEIVEs nn elther for dain Ley Perſon : to Contr Ordinarily Jud dif Chriſt no elowſhi Uur Fellg ccaled in Ui] be al 20 A that th
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\ocul1ar tO himſelf, that our S4v1our did tits upon 4 Mountain. | ml oh Opinion of Bucer, that this was the Mountain at the | foot of which he preached tine Scrigon largely recorded, Mat. | . . o, =, and (as ſome judge) more thortiy by Luke, >. 6. he chinketh the Multitude here mentioned, i the fame with that _ Mat. 4+ 25. aud Luk, 3. 7. and that our Saviour did = nto this Mountain to Preach, or Ordaia his Difct- \'es, but only to Pray, and to Diſcourſe with tome of his Diſ- ciples more privately avout Spiritual Myſteries. That 1t was at this time that he continued all Night in Prayer to God, Luk, 6. 12. and in the Morning called unto him fuch of his Diſciples as he thought fit, and diſcourſed with them in his Intentions concerning them, telling them, 1. That he had choſen them to be with him ordinarily,to be Eye and Ear Witnetles of what he ſpake and did. >. That he deſigned ſoon after to jend them out to Preach ; which ve read he did, chap. 6, 7. Mat. 10. 1, 3. to grve them a Power 1 beal Sickneſſes, and to cait out Devils ; fo that this Chapter only -cntioneth Chriſt's Elejon of them,not his actnal Sending them, «hich is diſcourſed chap. 6, as alſo Mar. 1o. 1. theſe things be- 107 privately tranſacted on the Mountain. Bucer thinks he came down inro the Plain at the foot of the Mountain, according to {ul. 5.17, and there preachzd that Sermon mentioned Mat * "I 6, 5. (as we betore ſaid) The Evangclift telling us, that he called ts him which of his Diſciples he would, let us know, that he ch1ſe them, and not they him; that the Choice of them, was of his Free Grace. an1 Mercy : And his continuing all Nigrict in Prayer before this Choice, let us know the Gravity of the Work of Chuſing Perſons fit to be ſent out to Preach the Goſpel. ; 19 * And Simon he {irnamed Peter,
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