+3 - 1 with their Fore-fathers in 1 23 And be ald unto them, Ye will rely fay unto paring them with her Fore the in the time of @uband Pra. = me this proverb, Phy ficlans heal thy lelt: what _—_ them, that the Grace of God ſhould paſs to the Gentiles, while - fn f.4- 13 we have heard done In * Capernaum, do alſoherein , ſhould be rejetted, they are not able to bear him. Thus 44s. 22 «ig Zo thy country- = the Jews heard _ xs [qe —_ repeated God's Commitlion to - , X } him, to go unto the Gentiles ; tnen they cried, away w; CS pe head, Veray biaay unto you; ©'No proj inthe Earth, for © is me ſe be ould ge Tent © fo -1t, 33-Pket is accepted in his owncountry. | ing to the old Prophecy, Deat, 32. 21. (applied to the Jer Freed: Chriſt here tells thoſe of Nazareth, what was in tbeir hearts,v7-| the Apoſtle, Rom. 10. 19. _) that becauſe they had moveg Ira Tl.at thcy 11 their hearts contemned him, becauſe of the meanneſs jealouſie, with that which is nt God, he would move them as - ty ot his arci.tage, and challenged him to confirm his Dofarine by ſie, with them that are not & People, and provobe them to ne Miracles urging that Nazareth was his own Country, and Phylict-|#9/j/h Nation. This is further matter of obſervation. 26s Go au;s in the firſt pſace ought tocure themſelves, and their Friendsand j'eq Sinners, who cannot obtain of their Luſts, to be a; ol ag ; tiofc of their own Families 3 they therefore cha'lenge him to work | a5 others, yet are ordinarily ſo proud, as they have no patic wy ſome ſuch Miracles, as he had betore wrought in Capernaitm,as they | hear that others are better than they , or have or ſhall __ pn had heard. He gives them the reaſon why he did no Miraclcs a-| mgre ſpecial ſhare in God's favour. Thoſe of N azareth, —_— moneſt them, viz. becauſe he diſcerned that they contemned them, | ;n the Synagogue heraing theſe things, as filled with A on as is very uſual for Perſons, according to that common ſaying, | No| chriſt out of the City, as not fit to live among them, and "a, Frophet is accepted in his own Country. | The reference here to {ome to kill him, by throwing him down headlong from the brow of the things done before this time 1n Capernaum, would incline vs to think H1l upon which their City was built, | But he paſſing through wy that after Chriſt's Temptations, he firſt went to Cana of Galiee,| mjdg of them, went away. ] How he got out of their hands, -wi vo where he wrought hs firſt Miracle, Zohn. 2. 1. turning the Water | they had laid hold of him, the Scripture doth not tel! us, nor 57 into Wine; then to Capernaum, where he ſtaid not many days, | gur concern to be curious to inquire; we read much Gon, : Fobn. 2. 12. then to Nazareth, but hearing that John was caſt into cape, Fohn. 8. 59. when the Jews hal taken up Stones to ſtone Leg Priſon, he removed from Nazareth to Capernaum , out ofthe Ju-| we know it was an cafie thing for him who was God as well a; M riſdition of Herod, under the milder Government of Philip his| eg quit himſelf of any mortal Enemies : but how he did it ES Brother. : blinding their Eyes, or altering the Nature of his Bodv, and makin *Jam.s. 17. 25 But I tell you of a truth, Many * widows were it inperceptible by them, or by a greater ſtrength then they had WT x $6503 in the days of Elias, when the heaven was ſkut (which the Divine Nature cone cafily ſupply his Humane Nature up three years and fix months, when great famine with) who is able to determine : : . 31 And * came down to Capernaum, a city of G was throughout all the land. lil q he ch he fabbach & M\1:t.,1 26 But unto none of them was Elias ſent, fave un-| Es - For ot —_ __ aDDath-Cays. to Sarepta, 4 city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a hi = 1 L yp oniſhed at his doCtrine; * for * 11, 5m is word was with power.
-any lepers were in Iſracl in the time of} Capernaum wasa City 1n the other Galilee, under the juriſdi&io -/ grad can Av of Philip, whither Matthew and Mark mention our Saviours motion 3
Elifcus the prophet: and none of them was cleankd, upon the report of the 1mpriſonment of Fohn. Philip is not only © faving Naaman the Syrian. by Hiſtorians reported of a leſs bloody temper than his Brother ze,