> tins 4ncinting with Ol al's in che Name of the Lord. 4t : 1pa:c9 ainongft Learned Men », whether this Anointing with O 7, was the ufing of Cyl as a Medicine, having a Na- tural Vertue (for it 1s certain in that Country ticre WEre Oyls} that were of preat Natural turce for healing) or only as Sacra- mental-and Sumbilical, fignif\ing what they did was from that | Undim »f te Spirit of Chritt, which they had received, not by their own Power or Vertue, and repreſented by Anomting with Or], that is an cxccllent Lenitive, tne refreihing and recovery | of the Biſcaſed. But it is not probable, contidering that our Lord ſent the Diſciples to confirm the Dottrine of the Goipe! ve hich they Preached, that he ſhould dire them in theſe Opc- rations, to uſe means of a Natural force and eiherey, which had at leaſt much abated of the Miracle; befides, ].umes bids then Amin the Sich with Oyl in the Name of the Lord. So as tney dourtlfs uſed Ort as Symblical; teftitying, that what they did eas not ty their own Power and Vertue: Nor did the Apo- fiics always uſe this Rite in Healing. Pefer and Jobn uſed 1t not in their Healins the Lame Man, Ads. 3.6. In the Name of Je- tr Chriſt ſay they} avis and walk, ver. 15. He declareth the {1% of it, ently to hav, that Chrift's Name, through Faith in his Nang, was that which made the Lame- Man whole. So that ;*t being koth a free Rite, which they ſometimes uſed, and fome- tc not, and a Rite annexed to Miraculous Operations, to dc- cart the E9.G% was from Chriſt, nst from their Power; in a MICICH ou ard Extraordinary, not in a Natural and Ordinary ay Of Operation z the Neccffity of the uſe of it fill 1s very np=rcinently urged by ſome, and as impertinently quoted by
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Forced abrozd) and he ſeid that John the Baptiſt was rilon rom the dead, and therefore mighty works do ſew forih themſelycs in him.
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15 Put when Berod heard zhereof, he faid, It wha l beheaded, he 1s riſen from the
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hold upon John, au bound him in prifon for Hero- tas ke. his Lrother Philipswitez for he had mar- 100 her.
8 For John had faid unto Herod, * it is not law- f1] tor thee to have thy brother's wife.
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28 And brought his head in a charger, aro -.. it to the damſel, and the damſel gave it to "44 ini ther. Eons!
29 And when his diſciples heard of ie, and took up his corps,and laid it in a tomb,
We meet with this Hiſtory in Matth. 14. to which rt ...- the Reader, having there taken in the moſt conſiderg,.. .. in the Relation of the ſame thing by Matthew or "ers 0g3 calleth him #rod the King, whom Matthew and Lybo 11.4 © trarcch. Herod was Tetrarch of Galilee; but winder that oy = cxcrcited a Regal Power within his Province. The 5” 22 a ſtory teacheth us ſeveral things. 1. The Notion of ; Ny ys Miniſter, He 1s one that dareth to tell the preateſi " M—_ what they do contrary to the plain Law of God. » "a boy teacheth us the Malice of Souls debauched with Luft [: a not cnough for Herodtas to have John in Priſon, where bh Rs do hcr no great prejudice ; ſhe muſt alfo have his Head _ off. 3. The 1Jl Influence of Corrupt Perſons in Princes "pig Herod had in his Government appcared no cruel Bloody kg Our Saviour in great quiet Preached the Goſpel and ro, r Miracies for the Confirmation of it within Herod's juriſdiction, in Galilee we nd no enquiry made by Herod after him, no : h ing him in Queſtion ; and for John the Baptift, he did not _ Tolerate him, but orought him to his Court, Reverenced þ;. as a Juſt and Holy "an, did many things upon his nſtrufticg: heard Dim gladly, but by the Influence of Herodias Chis Courti..” being at leaſt ſilent in the Caſe) he is prevailed with to = him to Death. 4. The Arts likewiſe of theſe Perſons are 0: vable ; they take the advantage of his Jollity on his Birth-g,... when in the Exceſs of Mirth, it was likely he would he _ caſic and complying to grant their Requeſts, 5, We may aſs from hence learn the Miſchiefof Raſh Oaths, and Genera] Pro- miſes, eſpecually wien they tiow from Souls ignorant of the Ly: of God ;, for had Her:d underſiood any thing of that, he could not have thought that his Oath could have been the Bune c« Iniquity, or obiiged Itim to any finful AR, 6. We may at underſtand the Mercy of God to that People, who arc ves. ned by Laws, whoſe Lives and Liberties do not depend up,"
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When Chriſt choſc the Twelve, it is ſail, chap. 4. 15, 7; he ordained twelve, that they ftuld be with him, and tt might ſend them forrh to Preach : And to have Power to te; neſjes, and to ca$F out Devils. $5 that till Chriſt's Af thought they went out from him to preach and work * yet they ordinannſy were with htin, receiving furs!
fiructions. When they had preaciied, and in his Name vows many Miracles, they again returned ro Chriſt, and gave tin 4 account boch of their Dotrine, and of the Curcs they tit 0. /, 007 1
wrought. 31 Aid he ſa!l unto them, Come ye your ſelves a- part, into acetert place, and reſt a while; for ther
ſure, 16 much as to eat. 32* And they departed into a deſert place, by fu «1