tellth their ruin, 31 3 5+ : im th d - the Apoſtles might uſe all probable means to reclaim them, an J Here were preſent at that ſeaſon, ſome that told make x vo more G-uitful. Grotizs thinks the term of three years is
him of the Galiſeans, whoſe blood Pilate had . uſed, becauſe every fig-tree (not wholly barren) brought forth
bed Jets anſwering, 6d neo them, Suppaſs yo] thier niet cnt ay Bon conn
1 ſ e U e Ve; ble, but may be of ill conſequence, ©,
that Fe En — _ brug _— 4a ; that tens days of Grace exceed not three years z yet thus ao
becauſe " FRI mma hy os? * | obſervable, that when God ſends a faithful Miniſter to a place, the e tney fuftered fuch things :
00 7: reateſt ſucceſs and bleſſing of their Miniſtry is within a few of 3 | tell you,Nay : butexcept yerepent, yeſhall all like- Nuke firſt years ina place. The Parable doubtleſs extendeth much wile periſh |
further than to the People of the Jews and yn us _ _ = R . in CG . That wnere God plants any one within the pale of his Church, he 4 Orthole eighteen upon whou te" townr-in n—_ zooks he or ſhe ſhould bring torth che fruits of Repentance and Faith. &1!, and flew them,think ye that they were ſinners || above all men that dwelt in Jeruſalem ?
That many are ſo planted, yet bring forth no fruit. 3. That there Sages. time beyond which God wiil not bear with .5 Itell you, Nay : but except ye repent, ye ſhajl all like- Wile periſh,
barren Souls. 4. That barren Souls are not only uſeleſs, but alſo ſpoil others Jay yiv. x&Tagys, they make the ſoil unprofitable. The Holy Scriptures giviog us no account of theſe two ſtories, to which our Saviour doth here refer, and thoſe who have wrote the
A quench-coal ſpoils the Fire. $5. That fiithful Minifters will be
very carneſt with God to ſpare even barren Sou's. 5. That it 8
j i ; their work and duty to uſe all probable means to mak« oarren Souls Hiſtory of the Jews having given us no account of ther, Interpre- ters areata great loſs to determine any thing about them. We read 0! one 7udss of Galilee, who drew away much People after him,
fruitful. 1 will dig about it and dung it. 75. Thata beuring truit at and periſhed, As 5 37. It is ſaid, that he ſeduced People from
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1 1 T: ai without laſt will. fave Souls from ruin, and deſtruQtion. 8. | it, every Soul tho ſtanding in God's vineyard, will at laſt periſh e-
ſVuu)l
\ ' - lly, their obedience to the Roman Emperor, perfivading them not to ac- | <0 _ tithe f — pr = | aching in one of the {ynago
mowledge him as their Governour, not to pay tribute to the Romans, p bes 5 he was te hing ynagog
| s gueſſed by Interpreters, that ſome of this Fa&tion coming up to | 1a N TE = ine Paſſver, (tor they were Jews) Pilate fell upon them, and flew 11: And behold, there was a woman which had a = gk them while they were ſacrificing, Others think that theſe were | of infirmit eighteen years, and was bowed rogerner, \ De- ſome remnant of Fudns his Faftion, but Samaritans, an@ {hin while I iſs lift up her felf. e De a or. Frag Fee and could in no wile lift up . riſk cy were Sacrificing at their Temple in Mount Gerazim, and that 4 wha Je ſos fow her, be called her to him, ates, (io Samaritans} they were called Galileans, becauſe Juls the head | 12 And W 2 2
UYol. 2.
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- Exod. 2c. bath-day, and ſzid unto the people,
LD * Matth. 12. 10.
Chap. 6. 7.
*Ch.15. 4
and ſaid unto her, Woman, thou art looſed from thine in- |
firmity. | | ka he laid bis hands on her : and immediately ſhe
was made ſtraight, and glorified 2 i: SO _
Tho the Greek ve m the -abbaths, Wh might fignine any # of the Week, 3ct it is manifeſt by what followeth that this Miraci was wrought upon the &venth day which was the —_— vn 6 elſe the Rulcr of the Synagogue would not have qua eelicd mg oy Saviour about it. What is meant here, v. I. by a Sprtt of _ mity, would not eatily be determined, whether only a very 8 oy wi firmity, or an Infirmity, in the bringing and continuing # CG upon her the Dec! had a great inſtrumentaiity, but for V. : EY , p ſhe is ſaid to be one that Satan had bound ;, the was 2 =, oracle bowed down that ſhe could not lift up her ſelf, and thus the hac So for eighteen vears, ſo as tize diſtemper was invetcrate, and ou - Þ G courſe of ordinary cure. Chriſt, who as to Peoples bodily 4 __ ties, was ſometimes found of thoſe that ſought h1m Not, ſeeing her, calleth her to him, and ſ1ith, | {3man thou art lofed from thy PRs. ty, He laveth his hands on her, and immediately ſhe was flraight.] c - invetcrateneſs of the Diſcaſe, and the inſtantancouſrcts of the __ without the ufe of any means, m«de the Miracie evident. The Wo- man for it gave thanks to Gvd, for that 1s meant by 8:
wifted God ; ſhe ſpake ſome things to the honour, and Glory of God who had healed her
14 And the ruler of the ſynagogue anſwered _ indignation, becaule that Jeſus had healed on the lab-
days in which men ought tro work - fit them there- fore come and be healed, * and not on the {abbath- day. .
anſwering here figniiies no more than he ſpate, as 10 4 nr" of other places in the Goſpels, The ſews were both very Supertit1- tious, and very uneven,as to the Santification of the Sabbath. Super- flitians becauſe thev would not Eo many things, which by God's Law they might do, ſuch as applying means to heal the Sick, defending themſelves againſt Enemies, &c. Uneven becauſe they would do d1- vers things of equal bodily labour with thoſe things which they pre- tended to ſcruple, one of which we ſhall here our Saviour by and by inſtancing in. This Ruler ſtudied to defame him before the Peo- ple. His pretence was, this was a Work, and ſuch a Work, as might be done in 11x day. Let us hear how our Saviour defendeth him- ſclf.
15 The Lord then anſwered him, and ſaid, Thou hy: pocrite, * doth nor each one of you on the ſabbath loole
his ox or hy aſs from the tall, and lead him away to wa-
tering ?
16 And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abra- ham, wkom Satan hath bound, lo, theſe eighteen years, be fooled from this bond on the ſabbath-day ?
Our +aviour here callcth this Ruler of the Synagogue Hypocrite, for his impucence in ſo ſevere a retfettion on him for doing on the: Sabbath-Day, a Work of that Nature, which he himſelf did, and thought himſelf blameleſs in the doing of, and his friends ordinar1'y did, upon whom for ſo working he did not refle& ; thereby teaching
us one note of an Hypocrite, viz To reflec upsn others for things which |