T ; 4 S. F OH N; other things, be is not ro be blamed ; Bat the moſt think P>zizp Wi-| 2 Ne tells him that 'he ſhould lee greater thinzs than thoſe -qvered here his own Weaknels, both in thinking Chrift tne Son | þ:372 that bath fall begiven, What thoſe greater thinzs ar», wwiicli cf Foſeph, and to have been born al Nazareth, Ir 15 certain, that our Lord here meanert, he rellerh him (in part at leati v. 5 1 ) the Apoltles chemſelves ar He; Yo, an on Chritts OO Fl And he ſaich unto him, Ver! ', verily, I lay 1111 on from the Dead, had ry IR Notion of CEnruc, 35 ltg you w *, Hereafter you ſhall ſee heaven open, and *Mit.c 1 -ue Meſſiahs Grace may contliit with great Weaknet3 as to-nnow- the angels of God aſcendi: | . I gg: v0: 32 angeis of God aſcending and deſcending upon ih: SHE " gw And Nathanael ſaid unto him, Can there any ſon — hw _ 0 | > + 4 thing, come out of Nazareth » ? Philip faith|, © nele rings he uſhers in with a Verily verify, and dechureth | ?o, .. ©, g00 me ? R thetn, ipoken not to Nathanael aiOne, but to yor ; V!Js all you that 1113170 him, Come and lee FROG are my Diſciples indeed, who are ( like Nachanae!) true Iſrae':tes, _ 1 The wordsof P hltp begat a Prejudice in Nathanael, as LO what | in whom there is no guile, For the terms, 4men, Amen ( by us he ſaid, Micah 5. 2. 15 was Propheſied, that the Meſſiav ſhould tranſlated Verily, verily) ſome of the Ancients. accounted them come our of Bethlehem. So Ch. 7. 41. Some of rhe people ſaid, Sha} in Oath; bur the mot learned Modern Wrirers, have ſeen no Chrft come out of Galilee ? Hath not the Scr ipture {aid, that Chri#t | reaſon ro agree with them. Surely, ( ſee a large Diſcourſe ahour cometh of the Seed of David,and out of the Town of Berhlchem, where | theſe Particles in our learned F/ler, his Miſce!lmm, 1. 1. ca þ. 2.20 David 115 2 Nazareth was not only a poor little Place, (tor fo Beth-| which nothing need be added ) it Amen is never uſed in the 0:1 hem alſo was) bur a Place which the Scriprure never mentioned, as Teſtament, bur as a tezm of prayer or wiſhing; in the New Teſtament the Place from whence the Meſſiah ſhould ariſe ; a Place that God | ir 79 uſed ro aflert or affirm a thing, or asa Particle of wiſhing and had not honoured with the production of a Prophet. By any good prayer. The Word in the Hebrew, properly ſignifies Truth, 17. thing feems to be meant, rhe Meſſiah, Or any Propnet, or me 65, IG. whence Chritt (the Truth ) is called rhe Amen, Rev. 3. 145 generally any thing which 1s Noble and Excellent and of any | As the Prophers were wont to begin their Diſcourſes with The word Remark : So prone are we to think, that the Kingdom ot God | of the Lord, and Thus oith the $i Wale the Trarh of what comes with Obfervation, that we know not how to Fancy how | they were about to ſay ; So Chriſt, ro ſhew that himſelf was God, great things thould be done by little means, and preat Perſons ſhould and ſpake from himſelf, beginneth with Amen, and Amen, Amen, ariſe our of little contemprtible Places. Whereas God chuſerh 2»e | ſometimes it is obſerved that Foyn conſtantly doubles the Particle , fooliſh things of the World,to confound the wiſe ; and the weak things | and faith, Amen, Amen, that is Verily, verily. Either 7 as Inter-
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47 Jefus ſaw Nathanael coming to him, and faich the ſpiritual Meraphorical opening of Heaven to Believers by of him, Behold an Ifraclite indeed P, in whom 15 no | Chri't, Bur it ſeerris more properly to fignitie, ſuch an opening of ouile 4. the Heavens as Wwe read of, Math. 3. 16. Some underitand it of 4 7 They are not all 1/7aelites, which are of 1/7ael, Rom. ge 6. For ne appearances of Angels to Chritt, at his Patton and Reſurrection, he s not a Few, which x one outwardly; neither x that circumcijion — A_— 3 > * Ges rather to referto the day of Judgment, which 6 outward 1#2 the fleſh : But he i a Few,which x one inwardly, of he n —_ ands 0 Angels ſhall wair upon Chriſt, as:he Judge and circumciſion # that of the heart, in the Spirit, Rome 2. 28, 29. "a a on _— the _ _ Miniſter = him ; which Mint- Ciritt ſeeing Natharael, (though he was prejudiced by Philsps mi- | - wr they lay, 1s expreſſed by the rerm _ Aicending and De- {take, or the common miſtake of his Nation ) coming to ſee him, | 4 þ with reference { doubtleſs) ro Facov's Vition, Gen. 23. 12, and ſeeing not only his body and bodily motion but his heart alfo, Facob ſaw it ſleeping, Nathanael and other Belevers ſhall fee it with :nd the motions of that, ſaith of him, Behold, one who 1s not only "iſ Eyes. Others Interpret it more generally, v7. You ſhall bornan J{rae!rte, bur 1s a true I/7ael:te, like his Father Facob, a plain — 4 —_ Miracles, as it you ſaw the Heavens opened, and rae Man, G:n. 25. 27+ q In whom there is no deceze, no doubleneſs of c ang" A _—_ and Deſcending. Others think 1t reterreth O heart; fuch oughr Chriltiars to be, no crafty, deceitful, double | ME us er appearances of the Ange:s ro Chrilt in their Mini':ra- minded men, but men of grear fincerity, and plainneſs of hearr, /ay- | 122.0 nm, than the Scripture records. Chriſt doth nor ſay, You
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