throv roiectes I cds. 058 Jt : +3:495+ They feemed to be a kind of Ratimal Divines, tat would own and believe nothing but what they could fa- hn by ther Reafon, or was ubvious to their Senſe ; and their LP ortrine was Exccllentiv ſuited to Men's Luſts, who defire not troubled with apy thoughts of a World to come. No- 5341417 note hows the Degeneracy and Debauchery of Humane 1, than this * That to gratine their Senſual Appetites more jrovly tn the thin; of this Life, they will be content to think + 4inivilatizn, Colnch Nature, not debauched, abhorrs _) and 07 quitting all Hopcs of Eternal Life and Happineſs, that they ma; have i trinciple to warrant their living Jike Beafts ; They em ts 0ur Saviour, thinking to flout him and Its Hearers out 1 the Dotrive of the Reſurredim, as having infuperable Dith- Cuitics to clog it. But he that takes the Wiſe 1n their own Craf- tint. ſhews theſe- Wiſe Men, that all their Wiſdom was but Fully, and their Argument wholly procceded ex 7znratine E- lencia; from their not anderſtanding the thing they would Phi!ofo- phiſe about,
19 Maſter, Moſes wrote unto us, fa man's bro- ther die, and leave his wife bchiod him, and lcave no children, that his brother ſhould take his wite, and
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See the Notes on Matih. 22. 35. where whatſocvcr 35.54. 3... hath, 1s opened. © ere
35 And Jeſus anſwered and ſaid,white he * tgyo!,}
in the temple, How ſay the Sc ribes that Chrit {on of David?
36 For David himſelf ſaid by the holy * The LORD ſaid ro my LORD, Sir thoy right hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot{t9,},
37 David therefore himſelf calleth him Lore, ang whence is he ther his ſon? Ard the common people heard him gladly.
See the Notes on Matth. 22. 41, 42, &c. Mitthew ſaith that Chriſt ſpake this to the Phariſees, who were very tar from 1c. knowledging Chriſt God-man, or indeed expefting a 142/11 har ſhouid be to. Had they owned Chriſt, and the fi \ poſt; ; Union of the two Natures in hin, the Anſiver had been cafic.
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raiſe up ſeed unto his brother. 20 Now there were ſeven brethren, and the firſt
took a wife ; and dying, leſt no ſeed. 21 And the ſecond rook her and died, neither lefr he any ſeed, and the third likewiſe.
22 And the ſeven had her, and left no ſeed : laſt of
all the woman dicd alſo.
23 Inthe refurre&tion therefore, when they ſhall riſe, whoſe wife ſhall ſhe be of them ? for the ſeven had her to wile,
24 And ſcſis enſwering, ſaid unto them, Do ye not therefore err, becauſe ye know not the ſcriptures, neither the power of Gcd ?
25 For When they ſhall riſe from the dead, they neither n arry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels which are in heaven.
26 And as touching the dead, that they riſe : have ye not read in the book of Moſes, how in the buſh
. God ſpake unto him, ſaying, * 1 am the God of Abraham, and the Ged of Iſaac, and the God of Ja-
cob ?
27 Heisnot the God of the dead, but the God of
the living, ye thereforedo greatly err.
The trae Queſtion about the Reſurredion, was, Whether the R:dies of the Dead ſhall riſe or no? not whether they ſhall afiſe
with the ſane Culities, AffeFions, Powers, &c. They are fown
and Qualities difporng them to Adtions only neceffary for the ſupporting the Natural Life , ſuchas Hunger and Thirſt, &c. Or for the upholding the World, that while one Generation yaſ- ſeth, it might be ſupplyed by another ; Such az an Appetite to Maitjage, &c, What needs this, when all Generations ſhall be determined in the Everl'ſting World 2 So as, in Truth theſe Learned Mcn ſhewed themiclves Dunces, wholly ignorant of what they came to argue upon. They ſhould firſt have proved, that there would be any need of Waves, or any ſuch thing as Marriage, aftet the World ſhould have an end. In the mean time our Saviour proveth the Reſurrection out of the Writings of Moſes, owned by themſelves. for Hoiv Writ, Without a Reſur- rettion, Abra2am would not be Abrahum, nor Iſaac, Tjaxc, nor Facob, Facob: See the Notes on this part of the Hiſtory, 1atth.
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28 And one of the Scribes came, and having heard them reaſoning together, and percetving that he had aniwered them well,asked him, W hich is the firſt com- mandmeat of all ?
29 And Jeſus anſwered him, T he firſt of all the com mandments z, * Hear, Olltrael,the Lord our God is ore LORD.
20 And thou ſhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy ſoul, and with all thy mind,and with all thy ſtrength: this 1s the firſt com- mandmert. |
31 And tke ſecond #5 like, namely this, * Thou ſhalt love thy neighbour as thy ſelf: there is none other commandment greater than theſe.
32 And theScribe ſaid unto him, Well Maſter, thou haſt ſaid the truth, for there is one God, end there js none other but he.
22 And to love himwith all the hezrt, and with all the underſtanding, and with all the foul, and with 51: the trength, and to love bz neighbour as him, is more than ail whole-burit-offerings and ſacrifi- Ces.
34 2nq when Jeſus ſaw that he anſwered diſcreat- ly, he ſaidgunto him, Thoy art not far from the king-
of the Scribes, which love to go in long cloathing,ang * love ſalutations in the market places, |
39 And the chief ſears in the ſynagogues, and the uppermoſt rooms at feaſts :
damnation.
See the Notes on Matth. 23. 5. and wer. 14. The more %.; and Women want of real Worth and Value, tre more they fc themſelves, a Reputation from their Habits, either the Gris, or the Riches and Gautery of them, and ths more they court 7; ties of Honour and Dignity, and affett External! reſpect. wh... as nobler Souls detpite thele things, being like Pitures yy. drawn, which need no Superſcription to tel} Men what or who: they are. Good Men are ſatisfied trom themſelves, and as n:; carelis of their Reputation, fo neither careful who Men tay th; that they are. But theſe Veries are more fully difcourſed Matth. 23. to which I reter the Reader for fatisfaction.
41 And Jeſus fate over againſt the treaſury, 1 beheld how the people caſt || money into the treaſfiry and many that were rich caſt in much.
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