Statare, and in favour bath with God and Man, Chap. 2. $2. They had | We wet with this Hi ws” 4 ot in Matthew and Mark. .
had the firſt fruits of his Miniſtry, and v. 22. they bare him witneſs, | Notes on Matth. 8. 15. and Mark 1. 29, 30. ”
_ 4% 5 of » __ -+omi an v4 array 44 o _— OO 40 Now when the ſun was ſetting, all they _— ey knew his Education, ſo as they could not think he had this Wiſ- ; 7 them unto him?
dom, and Knowledge, from any advantages of that, but muſt have any lick with _Givers Giraſey, —_ hem aol healed
it from Heaven ; yet when they hear him Preaching, and but touch - and he laid his bands on every one of Them; 3:
ang them for their contempt aud rejection of him,and tacitly com-| them. '4 And
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41 A
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1d devilsalſo came out of many,crying out,and Thou art Chriſt the Son of God. And he re-
Chap. V.
ſaid unto Simon, Fear not ; from henceforth tho: ſta),
catch men.
ſayings 1 ſay poking them, ſuffered them not to ſpeak - || for they i ihe knew that he was Chriſt. ; M See the Notes On Mark, 1. 32, 33, 34. where we met with the Crit ſame things. . : 42 And when 1t was day, he departed, and went in-
roa deſarc place, and the |eople ſought him, and came unto him, and ſtayed him, that he ſhould not depart
from then. _ 3 And he ſaid unto them, I muſt preach the king-
Jom of God to other cities alſo: for therefore am |
ſent» :
44 And he preached in the ſynagogues of Galilee.
See the Notes Mark, 1. 35, 35, 37, 38, 39. where that Evangeliſt reports the ſame things, that this Evangeliſt mentioneth, only with more circumſtances, Mark ſaith, he went out a greet while before day into a ſlitary p/ace to pray. He ſaith alſo that Simon and others followed hinr, and found him, and told hiw, that all Men ſought h!m, Luke addeth that the others defired him not to depart from thence, They deſired his ſtay, in order to his Miracles, the healing of their Sick, diſpofſetling Dzmoniacks, gc. Chriſt replied (as Mark ſaith) Let us 8&9 into the next Towns, that IT may Preach there alſo, for therefore came 1 forth. Lake faith, he toid them, He muſt Preach the Goſpel of the Kingdom to other Cities alſo, for therefore he was ſent. Accordingly, (faith Lake) he did Preach in the Synagogres of Galilee. Marb adds alſo that he caſt out Devils. How can any think, that Preaching the Goſpel, 15 not the great Work: of the Miniſters of Chriſt, but Prayers are to be preferred before 1t, or adminiſtring the Sacra- ments greater * when 1t 15 expreſly ſaid, That Chri/t Baptized none but | his Diſciples, John 4+ 2+ and Paul ſaith Chrift ſent him not to Baptize, but ro Preach the Goſpel : And Chriſt omitted opportunitics of work- ing Miracles, that he might Preach to other Cities, and only wrought Miracles to confirm the Dorine he Preachecd ; and* we fo often read, of his going about Preaching and Teaching, never of his Pray- ing, but alone with his Diſciples or in a Mountain or ſolitary place ; (tho doubtleſs he, or ſome others did pray at their worſhip in the Synagozues ) unleſs any will beſo mad as to think, that the ſole end of Preaching, is to convert Men from Fudaiſm, or Paganiſm, to an outward owning and proteſſing of Chriſt, tho under that profeftion, by reaſouof thetr ſottiſh ignorance, and debauched lives, they remain twice more the Children of the Devil, than many Jews and Pagans are, What was Chriſts great Work, is certainly his Miniſters, viz. to Preach the Goſpel of the Kingdom.
GHAP. V- Chriſt teacheth out of Simon's Ship, I—3. 4 miraculous draught of
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Fiſhes; Chrift promiſeth to make his Diſciples Fiſhers of Men, 4—10. They leave all and follow him, 11, 12. He cleanſeth a Leper, 13—16. Lawyers come to hear the Do#rine of Chriſt, 179. He cu- rethone ſich of the Palſie, 18-=20, Whereby he proveth his Auths- rity to forgive Sins, 21-26. Calleth Levi, 27. Hz leaveth all to follow him, 28. Levi's feaſt ; wherein Chriſt eateth with Pub- licans, 29, Wherefore the Phariſees murmur, 30. He Vindicateth his ſ doing, 31, 32. and defendeth his Diſciples for not faſting, 33—39-
] NDitcame to paſs, that as the people preſſed | upon him to hear the word of God, he ſtood
by the lake of Geneſareth,
2 And ſaw two ſhips ſtanding by the lake : but the tſhermen were gone out of them, and were waſhing
their nets,
It isby many Interpreters thought that Zuke in this Hiſtory to the eleventh verſe, doth but give us a larger account of what Matthew, chap, 4. 18. and Mark, cbap. 1. 15. told us ſhortly. The Sea of Ga- lilee, Cas they call it) and the Lake of Geneſareth were both the lame, receiving the different denomination from the oppoſite Coaſts betwixt which 1t was. TIzez Jv Aiuvnv had been better tranſlated #p5n, or at, than by the Lake, for without doubt the two Ships here — were upon the Water, tho poſſibly faſtened as uſually to tie Shore, ;
'3 And he entred into one of the ſhips, which was Simons, and prayed him that he would thruſt out a little fromthe land : And he ſat down and tavght the people out of the ſhip.
4 Now when he had left ſpeaking he ſaid unto Si- mon, Lanch out into the deep, and let down your nets fora draught.
5 And Simon auſwering faid unto him, Maſter, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: ne- vertheleſs at thy word I will let down the net.
6 And when they had this done,they encloſed a great
multitode of fiſhes ; and their net brake. _ 7 And they beckned unto ctheir partners which were in the other ſhip, thar they ſhould come and help them. And they came and filled both the ſhips, ſo that they began to fink.
S When Simon Peter ſaw #t, he fell down at Jeſus knees, ſaying Depart from me, for I am a finful man, OLORD. ;
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9 For he was aſtoniſhed, and all that were with him, at the draughr of the fiſhes which they had taken. | 10 And ſo was alſo James and John the ſons of
followed him.
11 And when they had brought their. ſhips to 15 * they forſook all, and followed hi bo ods,
Im,