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This was no ſmall Civility from a Pharitee. for the Phirifes were ot all others in the Generality of them, the 101} |
deat : TIE d:peradte, and 1n- 2 dans ©.2cmics of our Saviour, But Gol |:1t!: tis -umber armovgit 7 py Nations, and all ſorts and orders of ci. Our Sivicur 45 was Wii 9 ſaid before, was of a lrce, arid Open Converſe. 0nd rover refuſed 2.5% |; 4; WY Drink with Sinners purtuins fuch Deſigns s ; | ' Wy I, : Crip VE j*| he = ha . F j 14 $44 37 And behold a woman in the city, which was a i
linner, when ſhe knew that” [elus tate Phariſee's houſe, brought au ment,
38 And ſtood at his f2et behind him weenins, and began co waſh his feer with tears, and di4 wipe -: e;: with the hairs of her head, and kiſſed his feer, and anoint..d | them with the ointment. |
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Wat hath made any Interpreters imagine this wo the £, 16 "9. ry which is mentioned, Matth. 25. Yarl 1:, and I9'n 15. 5 2 "tt cannot tell, The iiſtories agree ſcar: e in a2) this, v: | PSs ef. 1. vringing the Alabafter-Box of Ovntment, and the n0; : | Saviour's Feet, whereas there wa- nothios 'N thoſe Cont; iaog _ ordinary. That Anointing was done in 32 bam, withig who oe, | of Jeruſalem, this in Galilee, Thar. 11 the Yo:fe 50 one Sinn tho | Leper, this in the Houſe of one Simm a Porifros, That, a [ile ( (boy this a_great while, before our S+510ur's Pation. A” DOES BP # vs oitened, at this Simon the Phaiiſce was ofented. Thoge Chrit I 3 F Viadicates the Woman from one head of Argumene. here from ar Wk. ther. Queltionlels this is another quite difercot pic ce of Hittor : L And »%ehald a Woman in tc City which was a Simmer, 1 Chat is 2 ] remarkabie Sinner, it is a Ward peveraliy fo 1d, ard cnptica +» | | Women, tigniftes a P-9i#1iite, or at Jeaſt one of an 1 Report as Chaſtity; ws, referreth here to the time paſt, tho la + pa#, ſhe hd lately been infamous and notorious, but it apveireth by wh eT | | followeth, that ſhe was not fo now, otherwiſ: Cn in tho In ni- | 4; 64-14 on, and Vogue of the People z a-cording to whoſe oinion. th) £49) | uncharitable enough, Que ſemel fuit mala, ſomper profirnitur, ef ni t- GT EG la in exdem genere mali, a Perſon who hath once ban bad is inks '$ | pretumed fo to be, through their jgnorance of the Power 21 Dicine (7 Grace in changing the Heart, or their Maiice ava:ft, and Envy to- 4, WH} wards thoſe who Hearts they fee fo changed. But wiatever this {1h Woman had been, it ſeems Ged had affetted her '7. wt ih the Vile” Word which Chriſt had Preached. and fiiled it «wit! tie rure Love is | of God ard Chriſt, inſtead of its former fu!lnefs of impure Love, we td
and made her Sins as bitter, as they had been former! -!--Cnt to her. She hearing Chriſt was Eating Meat at the Houle * 7mm the }. 114 Phariſee, makes no noiſe, but cometh behind him, bringing »n 41a- | 4 baſter-Box of Oyntment, {| And ſtd at his Feet behind him. woeping, " and Waſhinz his © Feet with her Years, and wiped them with the Hairs
of her Head, Kiſſed his Feet, and Anvinted them with Orntment. |
Weeping in the Senſe of her Sins, and fo plentifullv, 2: ſho waſhed
tie Feet of Chriſt with her Tears, ſpoke a broken and a Conrrite Heart. | Wiping them with her Hair, | her Hair with which ſh- had | offended through Wantonneſfs, Plaiting it, and Adorning her f:!f by
the dreſs of it to allure her Lovers, ſhe now uſcth to teſti4- her Ab-
horrence of her former Courſes,and | Kiſſed his Feet and An-inting them
with the Oyntment. | The Kiſs is a Symbol of Live, and not of Love
only, but of Subjetion and Worſhip ; by this the bath ſhewed her
Love to Chriſt, and alt5 her Subjeftion to him, the Kiifed Chrift in
the Pſalmſts Senſe, Pſi, 2. 11, It was not a Kiſs of {ove -n'y,
but of Reverence and Subjedtion, like Joſephs Ki's to Jacob, Gon. 45. 2. Moſes his Kiſs to Jethro, Exod. 18. 5. ray of the- Hizheſt Reveronce, for ſuch was the Kiſs of the Feet, and to teftifhe her At1-2tion of him. Thus the Idolaters Kiſſzd the Calves, I), 13. 2. int Bl, 1 Kings. 19. 18. wathing and anointing with 0z1, wis $41 Complement they uſed in thoſe Countries, for Cleanſing und Cool- ing the feet; ſhe had been a great Sinner, ſhe now ſhievs the yro- foundeſt Sorrow, greateſt Love, Humility, SubjeRtion, 7c. But ſome may fay, How cold ſhe come behind him, ſittinz at Meat and do this? while we fit at Meat our Feet are h{*fore us. This con- firmcth the Notion I mentioncd before,in my Notes on Wat. 25. 25: concerning the Jewiſh manner of ſitting at Meat, which was KX-9/- ing and reſting their Bodies upon their Legs leanins backwards + 11- mitting that, a!l that we here read of this Woman, was very catic for his Legs being thruſt out backward, the Soles cf his Feot were
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behind him to waſh, and to wipe and to anoint them, wiich it ; is hard to conceive how ſhe could do, admitting him to have ate, as | we do, putting our feet forward under the Table. | W401
39 Now when the Phariſee which had bidden him, "YG ſaw it, (he ſpake within himfelf, faying, * This man, * Ci. 15. 2, F if he were a prophet, would have known who and waat 1 manner of woman 2h #, that touched him, for ſhe ts a ſinner. — |
How eafily are perſons, (tho ſeemingly well inclined ard fiir, ) offended, who have not the Love of G-d rcoted and grounded 13
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their hearts ? Did then all Ven who were Prophets. knew Perior at firſt ſight ? It is certain they knew no more of Peoples 3427's and lives, than God vwas pleaſed to reveal to them knew con ' F