z: Chrif did nor take all theſe ſeeming Believers uto bis Boſom | | 1 . ; | x;or call them after him, nor maintained any familiar Fellowſhip heearggerVs Gar woure thereby gbran Authority and Credle wht ang Communion with them 3 bur made haſt again into Galslee, rill -i$5tums was come, knowing that in fo publick a place of danger, |. 5408 | *xvenly De they were not 10 be truſted ; w ſor being God blefled for og. ders by the working of Satan, 2 Theſ. 2. 9. and the h:aven))
hid knowledge of the Hearts of all men.
25 And needed not that any ſhould teſtifie of man x,
* 1 $S:m for * he knew what was in man 7.
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Cha; $. 64 he knew what was in them, ſearching the He Act. 1. 24+ Which 1s the ptoperty of God alone, Rev. 2-23-15. Here whar we formerly obſerved, is again obſeſrable : Thar oit times 1n holy Writ, for the further Confirmation of a Propofiti- cn, loan univerſal Affirmative is added a contrary Negative. Here. ariteth a Queitlion, agitated berwixt the Lutherans and the Cal- wmaſts, Whether Chrift as man knew all things, and what x im the heart of man ; they affirm ir,becauſe of the perſonal Union of the Di-. vine and Himane Nature in Cbrift, We fay, that althongh there be ſuch a perſonal Union, yet the properties of each Nature remain 6i- fimct ; upon which account Chrilt denyeth that he, as the Son of Man, knew the Gay and hour of the end of the World. Befides by the ſame reafon, that Omnijſcience belongeth rothe Humane Nature and Omnipreſence alſo mitt : Ivchlaſt indeed they affirm, ſeeing that dre pag quad abie to defrnd their Doctrine of Con{ubſt antiation, or the Preſence 6f the Budy and ever the Sacrament of his'Sup- per 18 Adminiſtied ; bur this beiag a matter Polanicet, _ —_— Thoſe who would be farisfied as ro whar is ſat may hind enough in GerarZ, Hunniwy, and Farnovits,
x And needed not any Informancn concerning the Principles and. | ne perfectly knew men, not only from! faceir more external Acts and Behaviours; ( as we know them ) bur| he cannot ſee the Kingdom of God 7.
arts,and trying the Reins, f We obſerved before, that the term Anſwered dork no! alwaj3 1 Kings 8. 39. Pſal. 33. [
of Chriit ; Omnpotence, Infinitencſs,
the Budy and Blood of Chriſt, where
here diſcourſe it, on ether fide,
him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God f. 5 for* no man can do theſe miracle; that
e He came by nighr ro Chriſt, not as ſome-(too charitably) poſ. fibly may: think, rthar he might have the freer and leſs interrupted
Communion and-Difcourſe with him ; bur either through fear, 2" poflibly ſhame.: (being a Maſter ir J/rae! ) to be lookt upun a1 Scholar going to learn of another. - F He falureth him by the Nane they uſually .:gave to'their Teachers, (as we ſhewed Chap. 1.0 49) and ſaith, we know, by which he hinterh to us, that not only he, bt others > f the 'Pharrſees alſo knew thar he was a Teacher ſent from God in a more exrriaordinary matiner'; £ and he giveth the reaſon of this. ther: Knowledge, becauſe of thoſe miraculous Operttiors
be with him.' 'But he ſpeaks particularly and eminently of thoſe things. which Jeſus did;' they were ſo great in their Nature, foral and ſolid in their' Proof, ſq divine in the manner of performingttem by rhe Empire of his-Will ; fo. holy in their End, to confirm a Þv- crine moſt bedoming'the Wiſdom and other glorious Attributes of God.and thar where the verification of the Prophecies concerninz the Meſſiab, whoſe:coming was forerold ſhould be with miraculous heal ing benefits; that there was the greateſt aſſurance, that none vith-
the light of reaſon and Scripture, that God will not atfiſt by bis Al- mighty Power the 'Miniſters of Satan, to induce thoſe who fincerely
convince the Spectators, that he was ſent from a Power infinitel; (t- perior to thkt of evil Spirits. - Real Miracles that are contrary the order, .and exceed the power af Nature, can only be producedby creating Power, and are wrought to give credit to, thoſe who at ſent from God, and when God permits falſe Miracles to be done d)
trien, the deception is not invincible ; for 'ris forcrold expel, 0 give us warning, that the man of fin ſhall come with lying 9%"
Eine of the Goſpel has been confirmed, by real Miracles, 11comp#* bly greater rhan all the ſtrange things done to give credit 10 Dactrined oppoſite to It. ES |
n Jeſus anſwered +, and ſaid unto him, Verily, «” rily, I fay unto thee, * Except a man be born|| agu"
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