" b., 4 ſomething about the Divine Law : what the particalar Themes | word of God cameunto Joh the 102 of Za: harias in the vo, 55. #4 7 x5, 7 *lbjedts were, 15 not material for us to enquire 3 our Saviour fo; wilderneſs. | mwcrcd their Queſtions, as they were all aſtoniſhed, The Evangeliſt having given us an account, both of the Birtiz ot 45 And when they ſaw him they were amazed, and John the Baptiſt, and of our Savioar a1 uf at tne Propg2ſr's pree q” ” mother ſaid unto him, Son, why haſt thou thus : cc4ing and attending them both, _ greets of oper ſo I | accout he Hiſtory 2M MN © | eelt with us? behold, thy father and I have ſought a little, cometh to give us ar; ac count of me---2 FO” | alas I t, h ance his Publick Miniſtry, and fultli1ng et thee ſorro Baptiſt, his entrance upon Mmtry, Wo 5 Tho f WINS. , it. John the Baptiſt had Six Months Scnior:ity of our Saviour, and bs | a. 10 lomething muſt be allowed to a Womans Paſtions, and a Mo- probably did appear fo long before him to the World, as a publick ir ; oo Indulgence, yet one would think, that efpecially confidering Miniſter 3 the time of 1s b Sinn was in the Fifreent? Tear of ths ”— | Where they t —_— - «ths hams Cal inifter ; the time 15 Degrnming j DOE wi | thus y found him, and what dcing, ſhe ſhould not nave Ipoken F » Þ..., of Tiberius Ceſar. Tiberies Cejur was he Who-NneKxt tuco coed 15 | ns him, had ſhe had a clear and diſtind knowledge of his Di- nies (for all the Roman Emperors after Julizs Ceſur, were cal- 190 | atk ture, 1n Union with her Fleih. She Ypeaks to him with the led Ceſars a5 all the Kings of E:ypt were ciiled Pharachs} he was ree rity of a Mother, Why haft thou thus Uecalt with us ? 3s wicked a Prince as molt who ruled the Roman Empir:. #01 the {oh bt + - bo : » b ; & 1 1 eo y id 17te 11:3eC 2J ! d bow ing And he ſaid unto them, How 1s 1t that ye ſought on (in whole pag _— He fig [nies oy ef Wilt ve rchelaus began to Rule in his ſtead as a Ring, Duc tt 120/749 oy made tra muſt be about my Fathers bu- changing the Government from a Monarchy to a Torrarchy (ONAt 25, m : a Sovernment of four) Archelaus, had only the GIVERRITCAt ON
EN lap, . 59 And*they underſtood not the ſaying, which he EN 5 ®Pkennto them. Ho _ read it-—that I maft be in my Fathers Houſe , then the Senſe ps be, Why did you feck me in any other place thin the Temple, {on > My Father's Hſe ? there Hieth my Buſineſs. Eut the Phrale meth rather to fienire as we tranſlate it, He doth nere f1gnifie, "at God was bis Father, that Mary might have known not only | __ the Revelatio of the Angel, . but becauſe ſhe had not known Ar | "22 5 Out ſhe did not yei fully underſtand his Divine Othce as Xe
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reſt ; the Law of Go + uber Age Price, How there caine to be at this time two Hizh Prieſts, is not zgreed amongſt Interpreters, Thoſe who are curious in this Inquiry, may fee what Mr. Pool hath Colle&ed for their faticfaRtion, in his Smopſes. We muſt know, that at this time the Jews were nnder the Power of the Romans, find all things a- moneſt them were out of order, Some ſay the Jews had libcrty to chulc their High Prieft, but then their Conquerors would turn him ont, and 1:1] thegplace to another. Others ſay that the MHrgh Prieſt had his Deputy, who alfo obtained the ſame Title. Others think, that as they had made the High Prieſtzod an Office, to which they choſe one Annually, (which was by God's Law an Office tor Life) fo the #1;h Pricit of the former year, ſtill retained his Title for an- ether vear. We arc at no certainty in theſe things. It is ccrtain that at this time there were two that bare the Title of the High Prieſt, upon what account we cannot tell. It appeareth from Fohn 18. 13. that the ſame Men three or four years after bear this Title 3 of Hizh Prieft, whether choſen again or no we know not. But this was the time,when The Word of God came unto John the Son of Ta- charias in the Wilderneſs. The ſame Fohn, of which we heard be- fore 4 The Word of the Lord came to him. commanding tim out to Preach the Goſpel. It is a Phraſe which is often uſed in the Old "Teſtament, to fignifie the Influence of the Spirit of God upon the Prophets, quickning them to their Work. And fignifteth to us, That no Man ought to take this Honour unto himſelf, until he be called of God, nor to ſpeak in the Name of the Lord until firft the
Word of God cometh to him. 3 Andhe came into all the country about Jordan
preaching the baptiſm of repentance for the remiſſion
of ſins. 2 How long the time of Fohn's Miniſtry was before that he was ſhut