34 Then faid Mary unto the angel, How ſhzll this be,ſeeing 1 know not a man ?
There are fome would excuſe ary in this Reply, and fel's ut, theſe Words ſpake in her no doubt that the things ſpoken b; the Angel ſhould nor come to paſs, only Admiration, or a Dejre to! farther informed which way God would effe&t ſuch a wonder c! Providence. Others think her Words hardly e:cuſable from atlGuii!, tho the more excuſable, becauſe there had yet been no ſuch 're- dent made in the Wor!d of the Divine Power, asto cauſe 4”; ta concetue, and bring forth a Son. The next Words, Seeing Iki #17 a Man,ſeem to import, that ſhe underſtood the Anzel of the preien! or paſt time,that the had already conceived,or ſhould immediate.) conceive,againſt which ſhe obje&ts her not having any cars knowledge of any Man. For the Notion of ſome Papijts,that wou'd from hence impoſe upon us to bclieve,that Mary had vawed Frrgint ty,as if the Senſe of theWords were, I am reſolved nzver to now 541% it 1s ſo ridiculous,that no Man of ordinary Senſe can allow it © a beſides that there were no ſuch Vows that we ever read of,ar:975'! the Traelites, nor could any ſuch be made;but by the Lai 0 G06 might be reſcinded,if made when the Virgin was in hcr F2i.et* Houſe 3 and befides that,it is very improbable, tbat a je1!! yet man ſhould make ſuch a Vow in whom Barrenneſs was 10 450 proach, and who look'd upon it as a Curſe : I fay berries things, who can have ſuch unworthyThoughts of the Bicited 5:18!" as to think that ſhe ſhould, having made ſuch a Vow, 29:1; & 40 Eſpouſal to Foſeph to mock him? But ſhe certainly underttuod tic Angel as ſpeaking ofa thing in being,or which preſently {100d ® 5 and tho ſhe believed whar the Angel ſaid,yet is defiro:'s of farthet SatisfaRtion how ſuch a thing could be out of the ordinary courie
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