The two Stories to which our Saviour referreth are thoſe 1 Kings| but Herod having taken away his Wife, it is very probable,that there 17. 9. 2 Kings 5. 14. But the queſtion 1s what our Saviour intended was no good underſtanding betwixt him and Philip. So that two to teach them by theſe ſtories, which made them ſo exceeding angry | things promiſed our Saviour more quiet in Philips juriſdiction, 1,Th: as we ſhall find by and by. Tanſwer, fevcral things,none of which] tameneſs of his temper. 2. The Hatred betwixt him and Her. |: pleaſed them. 1. The freeneſs of God's diStingaiſhing Grace. That] appears from v. 23. He had been at Capernaum before, but ſtave God was not bound to give to all the fame aid, and means off very little, haſtening to his own Country of Nazareth in the other Grace, that he gave ſome. This is a Dofrine the World were Galilee , from thence he now again removeth, hearing of Fohns In: never patient to hear, That God will have Mercy on whom he will priſonment, and ſeeing the baſeneſs of his Country men ; when he have Mercy. We would fain make God a debtor to us ; thoſe of Na-Þ came there,he keeps on his courſe Preaching upon the Fewiſh Sabbat; zareth, think they had as good, if not a better right to Chrilt's Mi-} not aboliſhed till his Reſurre&ion, It appeareth by v, 32. that racles, than thoſe of Capernaum, I tell you, faith Chriſt, God 1s a] he Preached in the Synagogue here alſo, It is ſaid, That the People Sovereign in his Ads of Grace, and afeth freely, and I can do no| were aſtoniſhed at his Do#trine. Ajtoniſhment is one thing, Believin; Miracles, but where he will have them done, 2. That 7 # through] is another. Men may be fome ways and to ſome degrees affe8:d t the fault of Men, if they receive not the benefits of Divine Grace. If| the Word of God, that yet are far enongh from believing, as the the Jjraelites would have entertained Elijah, he might have been | moſt of theſe Capernaites were,elſe Chrift had never upbraided them, ſent to them, as well as to Sarepta. If the Lepers in Iſrael, would | as he did Matthew 11. 23. | For his Word was with Power ] That have ſought out, and come to El7jah they might have been healed 3 | this Phraſe is to be underſtood only of thoſe powerful, and mira if you would have received me, and believed in me, you might|Jous operations, by which Chriſt confirmed the Word which he have ſeen what thoſe of Capernaum did, it is becauſe of your con- | Preached to be from God, T cannot yield ; it is better interpreted by tempt and unbelief, that I can ſhew yon no Miracles. If any ſay, if | Mark, 1. 22. He taught them as one that had Authority, not as the God had putit into the hearts of the Widows in Iſrael, or the Lepers | Scribes, and to be underſtood of the gravity, and ſpirituality of hi; there,they would alſo have entertained Elzjah, and have thought out | Dofrine, his Majeſty and Life in the delivering of it,and the Pow: and came to Eliſha; why did not God put 1t into their hearts ? To | of God going along with it for the convi&tion of Sinners; to al! this the anſwer 15 ready, Who art thou that diſputes with God ?| which were added his miraculous operations, of which the Evange- Why doth the Clay reply upon the Potter ? Even ſo O Father, for | liſt goeth on giving us a more particular account.
ſo it pleaſeth thee ; however the faileurs of the Lepers in Jyael, and 33 And in the ſynagogue there was a man which had
the Widows there, and of thoſe in Nazareth, was in a great mea- _ | , : ; ſure in their duty, as to things within their Power to do by vertue j © ſpirit of an unclean devil, and he cried out with z
of that common Grace, which God denieth ro none ; he might juſtly loud voice, | deny hisſpecial iniluences, while they negletted to make uſe of his 34 Saying, || Let us alone 3 what have we to do! 0: 17 choNG oy rnvg 6 That in 4p dare 7 go Pe with thee, thou Jeſus of Nazareth, Art thou come to God, and wrought Rizhteouſneſs, was ever accpted of him. God ha : no reſpect to Chis Country, or that Country ; he ſent Elias to do [OY us Iknow thee who thou art; the holy One _ | good to a Syzonian, and Eliſha to do good to a Syrian, while he neg- OL OO. : k E A iced the ingrateful, and diſobedient Jraelites. Thus he alſo not} 35 And Jeſus rebuked him, ſaying, Hold thy peace, | Nats A, obſcurely hinteth, that for their unbelzef, and reje&jon of, and diſ-jand come Out of him. And when the devil had throw! | % =y obedience to him, God wonld ſend his Goſpel to the Gentiles, and | hjm jn the mids, he came out of him, and hurt hin Wn rcjeft them, which came to paſs within a few years after. None j F of all theſe were grateful ſounds in the ears of the Men of Nazareth ; Es | you ask me (faith our Saviour) why I do not ſuch things hereat | 3s And they were all amazed, and ſpake among Nazareth, as 1did at Capernaum. I was not ſent to you. No 2 but themſelves, ſaying, What a word # this ? for with au- were not they ſome of the loſt Sheep of Iſrael ? Ah |! but Chriſt was no thority and power he commandeth the unclean ſpirits; more ſent to all J-ael,than Elias was ſeat to all the Widows in 1ſrael, and they come out He was ſent to Preach to them all,but for any ſpecial fignal favours, Y y . : face he was ſent but to ſome, and thoſe ſome were ſuch as did not proud-| _37 And the fame of him went out into every place Iy reze& and contemn him, but receive him. of the country round about,
28 And all they 1n the {ynagogue, when they heard | We met with the ſame Hiſtory related as done in Capernaum, anc 1 1 with the ſame circumſtances, Mark x. 21, 22, &rc. To the Notes _— gs, were filled with wrath. upon which we refer the Reader. ET
29 And roſe up, and thruſt him out of the city,\ "2 ardhe aroſe out of the ſynagogue, and entred ? f Or, Z9ge, and led him unto the || brow of the hill whereon their Rt Simons houſe «: And * te —- "mother was city was built, that they might caſt him down head. |, 4 4 grcatfever z and they beſought him {o:
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