iTiw-5.17. when ye fail, they may receive you into everlaſting ha- | cd, John 7. 45. in oppoſition to whom ſome think that our Sari j!Or, Riches. bitations. our, Chap. 6. 20. bleſſed the poor. The promiſes relating to That by Mammon here is meant Rzches, 15s univerſally agrecd, but = — TE, and made to the Jews, were generally - whether it Originally be a Chaldaich, or Syriackh,, or Punich Word poral Bleſſmgs, though under them Spiritual Mercies were 4 . - Mg > | underſtood. As Fypocrites c d have their be- ell agreed. The Chaldee Paraphraſt, uſet! H. YP _— OT CE 0D VE bam” 1s not ſo well agree phraſt, uſeth it, Hof. 5. 11. [1044 Luſts tonched” and mend . have Dan's | But the Hebrew there, 15 quite otherwiſe, (according to our Tranſla- ti , | ca, ana Pperions that have dr ank in an Error, ti- and f : - ins ind the dt is pes. ro ere no patience to hear it contradifted ; ſo the Phariſees had no patl | tion) They willingly followed the Cammandme if the notion | +5 hear that DoR hich. croff: 4 taupht pable of of thoſe be true, that ſome of thoſe Nations had an Idol called Mam- d ſtruck hei rine, whicly crofled what they ha -, d lome A | " hev made the God of Riches. anſwerino the Grecian | 329 ſtruck at their darling Luſts. They derided him. The Wo | ke mon, WACIN kt ey f F4 5 r gf t C ecian {ed fi n f h d . . © f n and 4 diſtir Plutcs, It fairly Interprets the Chaldee Paraphraſt. "They followed | £02 189! 'yetn a Ceriding with the higheſt degree of Scor they is the Command for Idolatry, for ſuch was Fereboams Commandment, POTN Blefſecth mentioned in that Text, and from thence it might be that the Ig And he ſaid unto them 5 Ye are they which | Syrians and Punichs called Riches Mummon. We have the Word juſtify your ſelves before men ; but * God know- * pl 23 '!n the New Teitament four times, thrice in this Chapter, once eth your hearts: for ® th hi h is highly eſteem-*:5 mefits, Math. 6. 24. It is called the Mammon of Unrighteouſneſs, by an d - : _— WR guy Gohr of 7: ofom. Mebraiſm, it is as much as the Unrighteows Mammon, by which we ed amongſt men , 1s abomination in the ig muſt not underſtand il] gotten Goods, (for God haterh Robbery for a God. Burnt-Offering. We mult reſtore ſuch Goods, not mike Friends of | By juſtifying here is to be underſtood either ant appearing before them :_) Bur Riches arc ſo called, becauſe of the manifold Tempta- | Men, as juſt, and firit obſervers of the Law ; or 2- A predicating tions to Sin, which ariſe from them, upon which account they are | of themſelves as juſt : You (faith our Saviour ) make 4 fine ſhew ant alſo called Dzceitf, But others think that it is ſo called in oppo- | great brags amongſt men 3 but God's Eye goeth deeper, he kno*” lition to the true Riches, mentioned wv, 1t. So that the Mammon | eth the Heart 3 what Pride and Covetouſneſs, and Hypocriſie lodg- of Unrighteouſneſs, is the Mammon of Falſhood, or hurtful Riches. | eth there. Men do not know your Hearts, but God kooweth thei tranflareg Riches of hurtfulneſs, dla ſometimes fignifies Hurt or Wrong , | All is not Gold by God's Touch-ſtone , that Gliſtreth in Mans F)*r nes the and edgy ledere, mcere. Of theſe Riches, which are no true | Nay many things which arc highly eſteemed amongſt men, 43 aged nicth th Riches, and which deceive the Soul, and do hurt and miſ- | ters of great Devotion and Picty, and Merit, and which they ap- With, that
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chief to a Soul, expoſing ic to Temptation , Chriſt commands | plaud others for, are in the ſight of God no better than Abominait "ch by us to make Friends, either, 1. To make God our Friend, not by | ens. This highly obligeth all, not to make their eſtimate of _ ord wh Keriting trom him any thing By cur diſpoſal of them, but. by | from the yalue, aud eſtimate which Men put upon them gf _ * Ne Ble
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16 The law and the prophets were until John, ſince that time the Kingdom of God is preached, and every man preſleth INTO IT.
we had the Sum of theſe words, Matth, rr. 12, 13. Sce the Notes on thoſe Verſes. The Connexion of theſe Words in this place ſeems to be this Do not thick it ſtrange, that I Preach ſome Do- &rines to you, which ſeem new to you, tho indeed they are no other than was before contained in the precepts of the old Teſtament : For the Law and the Prophets, the preaching of them, held but till Zohn, ſince whoſe time the Goſpel hath been Preached, which gives you a clearer light into the Will of God, than you had before, and it plea- ſth God to give it a great acceptation in the World, tho you reje& *t every one preſſeth, that 15, many preſs into it, ſo as God will not want 4 People, tho you mock and deride the Goſpel inſtead of im- bracing of it, as you ought to do.
17 * And it is eaſier for heaven and earth to paſs, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Likewiſe you ſcandalize me, as if I came to teach a new Do- Arine, contrary to the Law, and the Prophets. I tell you the quite ; 5 18, contrary 3 Heaven and Earch ſhall paſs away, before one tittle of the Lay ſhall pats. Your vain interpretations of the Law, ſhall be de- ſroved, or amended, but the Law of my Father ſhall remain as a certain rule of Life, to his People, until the World ſhall have an end.
13 * Whoſoever putteth away his wife, and marri- eth another, committeth adultery : and whoſoever marricth her that is put away from ber husband, com-
mitteth adultery. = Fee the Notes on Matth. 5. 32. where this is expounded, as alſo in the Notes on Matth. 19. 9. Mark 1c, It.
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22 And it came to paſs that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abrahams boſom : The rich man alſo died, and was buried.