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would come. b We heard before of @hriſt's firſt Fleding, then tending out _ '% ch. 6. 12,13, 14. andch. g. wv. 1, 2, 3. and v.10. We heard ol _ Return, and giving an account ot their truft to their Lord 5. " ” their particular Account was, we no where read, but it W4> 7 our Saviour judged, the Harveſt too great for the hands of the bourers. He therefore now rcſolveth to ſend out Seven) wa The Names of theſe we have not in the Evangeliſt, only 14: C Ir ſent them out, and that he ſent them #wo by two, which might be m their better mutual Afiſtance each of other, and alſo for thetr —_— Teſtimeny one for another. When God ſent out the wy _ Rors and Governours of his people, he ſent two, Moſes an | o__ Fohn Baptist ſent two of h1s Diſciples to Chriſt ; Chrilt, £2. 32 3
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68, 4 * Carry neither purſe, nor ſcrip, nor ſhooes, and
tio. 7 * And inthe t5me houſe remain, eating and drink-
FI: 16 But into whatſoever city you enter, and they re-
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athing myiterious in this. Man is a Sociable Creature, and it is ood for him to be alone ; we cannot deterinine that our Saviour 12d any regard t0 the numvers of Twelve and Seventy ; though it 1s certain that both thoſe numbers arr-Opglt the Jews ſeem to have had a more tan ordinary Charatter, Twelve being the pumber of the Tribes of Jjraet, Gen. 4c. 28, in Elm they found Iwelve Wells of Wa- ter 5 according to the numoer of the Trives, were the Twelve P1l- Jars, Exod. 24+ 4 and the Twelve Stones in the Breaſt-plate of Fudg- nent, E£x0d- 28. 21. and the number of the Cakes for the Shew-bread was to be Twelve, Levit. 24. 5. The trinces of Jrael were Twelve, Num. I: 44* and Twelve Men were {cnt to ſpy out the Land of Ca- naar, Deut- 1+ 25: So we ſhall obſerve, that na multitude of things they kept f0 the r-1mber of Tweive.; fon, 1n his deſcription of the New Jeruſalem, which he ſaw in his Viſlon, ſavs Rev. 21. 12. it
had Twelve Gates, ard at the Gates Twelve 4ngels, and on the Gates were the Names of the Twelve Tribes,atid the Wall had T; welve Foun- dations, &- And for the number of Seventy ; Facob's Family,when they went down into Egypt, were Seventy Souls, Gen. 46. 27. They
mourned for 7acob Seventy days, Gen. 50. 3. At Elinrthey met with
Seventy Palin Trees, Numb. 3 2. $- The poſterity of Zacob was 1n
Babylon Seventy Years. The Je Win Sanhedrim, or great Courtcho- {cn upon the Advice of Zethro, is ſaid to have connited firſt of Se-
venty, then of Seventy-two Perfons. So as the numbers of Twelve
and Seventy ſeem to have been Numbers to which the Jews had ſome
reſpett. Whether our Saviour, 1n the Choice of thoſe whom he
6rſt ſ.nt to Preach the Goſpel, nad any retpe or no to the Jewiſh
Value for thoſe Numbers ; or deiipned by it toſhew them, that he
was about to ſet up 4 new Kingdom and Government, which though
differing Tom what they had exerciſcd formerly, yet in ſome lit-
tle things ſhould nave ſine conformity to them, we cannot dcter-
mine, We ſhall find the ſame Powers and Authority given to theſe
Seventy as tO the Twelve, and the fame Injtra&ions , how ſome come
to imagine a difference of Order betwist them I cannot tell,no ſuch
thing appeareth from the Inſtrutions given che one or the other
upon their tirſt ſending out,
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the Lord of the harveſt, that he would fend forth la- bourers into his harvelt.
See the Notes on Matth. g. 35. where theſe Words are put im- mediately before the ſending out of tne Twe,ve Both the Twelve and the Seventy, all that Chriſt ever ſent out, were to be Labourers in the L»rd's Harveſt,
3 Go your ways, Pehold, I ſend ye forth as lambs amongſt wolves.
flute no man by the way.
We met with theſe Inftructions before, arid opened them in cur Notes on Matth. xo 5G. and 16. only thcre we had not theſe words, and ſalute n> man by the waz, The meauing of that 15 no more, than make all poſſible fpced, 2 Kines 4. 29.
5 And Into whatſoever houſe ye enter, firſt ſay, Peace be to this houſe.
6 And if the fon of peace be there, your peace ſhall reſt zpon it, if not, it ſhall turn to you again.
ing fich things as © i:£y give, for the ® labourer is wor- thy of his hire. Go nct {rom houſe to houſe. If, ee the Nutes on MHa'tth, 10. i1.and on Mark 6. 10, 11. The In- ſiufions, as tothe ſuvſtance ot tnem, are the ſame here and thete, though a jittie differing 1h the Terius,
8 And into whartſgever city ye enter, and they re- ceive you, eat ſuch Mings as are ſet beiore you.
9 And heal the fick that are thetein, and ſay unto 3: them, * The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
ceive you not, go'your ways Our into the ſtreets of the lame, and ſay;
yeſwe of this, that the Kingdom of God 1s come nigh unto you. 12 ButI fay unto you, it ſhall be more tolerable in that day for Socom than for thar city.