Chriſt checkerh his Diſciples for underſtanding things no %.-- | ter : Ignorance is more excuſable in thoſe who are Stringer; ty God and Chriſt, than in thoſe that have Rel:tion to him. j our Saviour's Enumeration of thoſe things which come cut c; the Heart, ſeyeral things are reckaned up which are the 0; actions of the Tongue, Eyc, Hands : but our Saviour fait!;, theſe flow from the Heart ;, for the ARions of the vutwars My are but the imperate Aions of the Will, and things 1% 1. [maginations and Underſtanding, betore they come at the vw, to be choſen or rezetted. Here are but ſome Sins reckons :: ſtead of many ; for it is truc of ail our Evil Afftions, this are arſt hatched in the Heart, and are firſt entertained 12 v Thoughts, in our Underſtandings, then choſen by our Wills; and then the bodily Members arc commanded by the %yl -» the Execution of them. Mark reckoneth more than ariie,; but in both the Enumerations are imperteRt, and fome Sins ar: named inftcad of all, Nothing but Sin defileth the Man; $1 hath its firſt riſe in the Heart, and tloweth ſrom thence, Ser fur ther the Notes upon Matth. 15. 18, 19, (Fc.
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24 And from thence he aroſe, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sigon, and entred into an houſe, = would have no man know zt, but he could not b: hid.
25 Foracertain woman,whoſe young daughter had an unclean ſpirit, heard of him, and came and fell « his feet.
26 The woman was a || Greek, a Syrophenicis: by nation, and ſhe beſonght him that he wo:1d c:3 forth the devil out of her daughter.
27 But Jeſus ſaid unto her, Let the children 5:5 filled,for it is not meet to take the childrens b5cal and to caſt zt unto the dogs.
28 And ſhe anſwered and faid unto him, Yes, Lord
yet the dogs under the table eat of the children; crumbs.
29 And he faid unto her, For this faying,'sc thy ways the devil is gone cut of thy davgi- cr.
30 And when ſhe was come to her houſe, ſhe found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon. bc: bed.
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31 * And azain departing from the coaſts of 1 ve
« Man mn the ſight 5f God, (for of ſuch Defilement he alone |2nq Sjdon, he came unto the ſea of Galilee, througi
ſpeaketh} cla be defited by nothing but what came from within im. How eaftly wopld a Popiſh Dofor have anſwered this : Doth rot Dzſobedzence to the Churches Commands come from with-
the midſt of the coaſts of Decapolis.
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as come from -within, in diſbedience to the Commands of G9 fuch are thoſe which he mentioneth,- ver. 21, 22. For all tings that come from within, do not dcfiſe the Man. And it
: | him to put his hand upon him.
33 * And he took him aſide from the mu: tices ©
:: true, that a Diſobedjence to the Commands of any Power, whe- | and put his finger into his ears, and * he ipit, > {11
ther Civil or Eccleſiaſtical, is a thing which cometh from with- touched his tongue. %
in, and defileth a Soul, if it be a Difobedierce in ſuch things which God hath given them a Power to Command ; Lut if not. the Caſe is otherwiſe.
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the ſtring of his tongue was looſed, and he ſpake
Jain. 26 And he * charged them that they ſhould tell no
more a great deal they publiſhed ze. ard were beyond meaiure aſtoniſhed, ſaying, He hath done all things well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumbto ſpeak. This Hiſtory 1s recorded by Mark only. | And again departing from the Coaſts of Tyre and Sidom. } We heard, ver. 24. of his go- in into thote Coafts 3 ſome think that our Savicur did not go
out of-the Jewiſh Country, though he went to the Coatts of
Tjre and S:don, which were Pagan Countrics :] He came unto the Sea of Galilee, through the midſt of the Coaſts of Decapolis. \ That Decapolis was an Mnion of ten Citics ſo called, is plain by the Name . But what thoſe Cities were, and whether- they lay on the ſame fide of Fordan that Galilee did, or on the other fide of Fordan, 15 diſputed : moſt think they lay on the Galt- lean ſide; | One that was Deaf, and had an Impediment in his Speech, | Some think that he was Dumb, but the Word 1ignifies one thar ſpake with difticulty 3 fo as it 15 likely his Deafneſs was aot Natural, (for all naturally Deaf.are alſo Dumb ; we learn- ing to Speak by Hearing 3 } beſides, that 1t is faid after the Cure, that he ſpake plain 5, 1t was probably an accidental Deafneſs hap- pening to him, after that he could ſpeak. Their beſeeching Chriſt to put his Hand upon him, proceeded from their Obſcr- vation of him very often to uſe that Rite in his Healing fick Perſons. | And he took him afide from the Multitude,] uot ſeck- ing his own Glory and Oſftentation, | And put his finger into his Ears, and ſpit, and touched his Tongne.] All theſe things were ex abundanti, not neceiſary Afftions, or naturally efficacious ſor his Cure 3 but our Lord fometimes uſed no Signs or Rites 3 fome- times theſe, fometimes others, as it pleaſed him. And Lohing ud t) Heaven, he ſighed*] pitying the Condition of Humane Na- ture ſubje&t to fo many Milerics, Defets and Intirmities ; and ſaith; | Ephatha, that is, be opened | By the Word of his Power he made the World, and by the Wird of his Power he upholds it; and by the ſame Word of his Power he reſtoteth any lap- ſ:d or decayed part of it : He ſpeaks, and it is dwne. | And ftratzhtway his Ears were opened : | Nature obeyeth the God of Nature, Concerning his Charge of them not to publiſh it, and thcir Diſobedtence to it, I have had occation once and again to ſpeakz and muſt confeſs, I can neither ſatisfte my ſelf in the reaſon from my own Thoughts, nor from what IT read in ©- thers, This Miracle hath no otter Effect than the People's Aitmiſhment and Confeſſim, that what he did was well done; which was the common Effe&t of Chriſt's Preaching and Mira- eles upon the moſt.
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