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Prophecy coming extraordinari! Angel had before told her. | 46 And Mary faid, my ſoul doth magniſfie the Lord, 47 And my ſpirit. hath rejoyced in God my Sa- VIOUT.
We are now come to the famous Song of the Bleſſed Virgin, up- on whom alſo the Spirzt of the Lord comes upon this Occaticn. She firſt ſolemnly gives Praiſe unto God, then by Various Expreſſions declareth the Power and Goodncfs of God, ſhewing him wortny to be praiſed; and laſtly, applieth what ſhe had ſpoke more generally, to the particular Bufinefs of Man's Redemption. Our magnif)ins God, is not by making him great, as he magnifieth us, as it is v. 45: but by declaring. and ſhewing forth his Greatneſs, She faith, her Soul did magnifi2 the Lord, and her Spiri* rejpyced. Soul and Spirit
y upon her, corutirming what the
therefore think this 7mpoſſtble;, for you know Elizabeth was counted barren, and was old,yet ſhe hath conceived. [ And with God nothing Is impoſſible. ] I bring you a Mcflage from God, to wham all things are poitible. This was an ordinary Saying amongſt them, Nothing 2s imt9ible with God, Our Saviour uſeth it ſeveral times, Mar. ro. 29. Math, 19.26. Nor needed we any Scripture to prove that nothing could he impoſſible to him who is the firſt Being,the firſt Cauſe, and the Fountain of all Power, and to whom all things are ſubje&. No confilerate Man will from hence conclude that things are poſſeble to G2d whi:h wou'd derogatefrom the Perfe@ion of the Divine Being, :1d are [ImperfeRions In us: nor yet that any thing 15 poſſible to 207, the contrary to which he hath willed, But God can do what- 327 ne can wull, |
;> And Mary faid, Behold the handmaid of the ord, belt unto me according to thy word. And the :12! c:cparted from her.
1c2 1.1.2 T ſpogen (faith Job Chap. 40. 5. ) but I will not anſwer.
are but two Words ſignifying the ſame Thing, an1 importing, that ſhe glorified God heartily, and with her whole Soul ; and teachinz us, that alt praiſing of God with our lips 15 of no tignificancy with- out the Conjunttion of the Heart with the "Tongue. | In Grd ry Sa- viour.) So Hannah, 1 Sam. 2. 1. My heart rejyceth in the Loyd, mine horn is exaited in the Lord, This is true ſpiritual rejoycing, when the primary Obje& of our Joy is not the ſenſible Good, but the Good- neſs of the Lord to us, in giving us that g»od thing.
48 For he hath regarded the low eſtate of his hand- maiden : for behold, from henceforth ai! generations
ſhall call me bleſſed,
Our Te ;aflators have here rightly tranſlated Tamar, Low eſtate, Mary doubtleſs doth not here coinmend her own #umility. (15 fome Papiſts would have it,) but magnitieth God, for that he had reſpect to her who was of ſo mean and low a condition 4 for tho ſhe was of. the Family of David, yet that Family had for many years beer. bro- ken aud afflifted, and ſhe was now eſpouſed to a Carpenter, which
111172 manier rae Virgin ſpeaketh : I will diſpute. no more, [ am ine Lora's Servant, let him do with me whatſoever he pleaſeth. This Prraſe, Bolotat tDe Darimaid of the Lord, doth.not ſpeak her the Lady an; Qrven of Heaven, (.: the Papiſts ſtile her ) but it ſpeaketh her |
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wows do according to wit the Angel had ſaid unto her. The An- £d having diſpatched his Errand, and obtained what he came for, acenueth into fjeaven.
39 And Mary aroſe in thoſe days, and went into the hill-country with haſte, into a city of Juda.
40 And entred into the houſe of Zacharias, and ſa- luted Elizabeth.
x | NManythink, that thi; City where this Zacharias lived was Hebron,
her ſent and Conſent unto Sod. She addeth -a Prayer, That God | ; | hath God ch:ſen, x Cor. 1. 23. That m fleſh (hould glory in hu prejnce,
before called Kirjath-Arba, Joſh. 14. 15. for that was a City in the mountainous part of Juda, one of tie Cities of refuge, and belonging to the Pricits, Joſh 20.7. But whether it was ſo or no, cannot be crtunly determined 3 She probably went not only to rejoyce with Elizabeth her Kinſwoman, bnt alſo to ſtrengthen her own Faith, as to the Revelation which ſhe had received, by finding that true,which Ui Angel had told her concerning her Coufin Elizabeth.
41 Andit came to paſs, that when Elizabeth heard the falutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb:
and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghoſt.
| The Motion of the Child in the Womb of the Mother after her time of Quickening is paſt, and the more than ordinary Motion of !t upon ſome extraordinary cauſe of Joy, is no unuſual thing with Women in thoſe Circumſtances ; but doubtleſs, as this Motion was more than ordinary, fo it had a more than ordinary Cauſe, being auld from the Holy Spirit of God ; and ſo the beſt Interpreters Jade, What is afterward faid of Elizabeth, that ſhe was filled with {re 17 Ghoft, is expounded in the next Words (wherein ſhe pro- pictieth of the Spirit of Prophecy.
42 And ſhe ſpake out with a loud voice, and faid,
ſpake her Condition low and mean, tho deſcended from the - Royal Family of David. And thus God uſually magnificth himſelf; he chu- ſ:th David from the Sheepfold to be king cover Iſrie! ; he much de- lighteth to exalt ſuch as are low ; he chuſet> the fooliſh things of the World to confound the wiſe, the weak things of the World to confound the mighty, and baſe things of the Warlt, and things wmch are dejpiſed,
v. 29. | Henceforth (ſaith Mary) all generations ſhail call me Bleſſed. [t is no mean Favour of God when God giveth us a Name 1n the World, and that not only in the preſent, but in ſuceed:ing Gene- Yrati2Ns
49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things, and holy #« his name.