þ He who hath fo believed rhe Teſtimony of Chriſt, as to accept him, and ro believe in him as his Savipur, hath by that his believing, ſer io his Seal, that God in all lus Promiſes of the Meſſiah under the oid Tettamenr, 1s rrue,rhat a word hath nor failed of whatſcever God hati there ſpoken of that nature; according to this is thit 1Foh.5.10, He that beltevetb not God, hath made him a liar, becauſe he believeth 207 the Record that God gave of his ſon. This faying doth notably conumend Faith, and detame Unbelief. Faith in Caritt as the only true Mediator and Saviour, giveth reitimony to the truth of God and fealeth it, Uabeliet defamerh God, and doth in effect ſay, that God 15 a liar. |
24 Forhe whom Got] hath f=n: c ſpeaketh the words of God 4; tor God giveth not the Spirit by meaſure unto him e.
c He whom Gcd hath ſent our of Heaven, out of his Boſom, not meerly authorizing hm as a Minitter, as the Prophets, and as Fohn was ſent 4, ſpeaking nothing bur the words of God. The Pro phcis, and the Apoſtles were ſent of God, in a ſenſs, bur nor as Chriſt was tent ; they ſometimes ſpake the words of God, when the Spirit ot Go came up9n them; bur they ſometimes ſpake their own words, as Nathaz did David, when he encouraged his thoughts ro build an. Houſe tothe Lord. Bur whatſoever Chritt (pake, was the words of God e: For Gud dt nor give out the Spirit to him ſparingly (as our &t a Meaſure, as he Goth to his Mini:ters or Saints, who have bur their proportion of Revelations and Qraces,9s was requilite tor their Offices 1 which they were called;and the (ſeveral periods of time that were wracally illuminated. Bur in him the fulneſs of the Godhead dwelt POGtV, Ne Was auomted with the ol of gladucfs ibove his Felloys :
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worketh by Love, fo as there is an d7{i9:ia, a diſobedience in the Un- - terſtanding as well asin the Converſation; and he that fo belteret yy, ha 4s to obey ſhall never come into Heaven, which felicity is here expreſ- ” ſed by ſec:n2 Lif-; as nor ſeeing Death, is nor dying, fo nor [teiyp | i/, th is dying ke And as he was by nature a child of wrath FEph,”,_, w ſubject, and expoſed to tize wrath of God, fo rhat wrath abide: yy. wi on him, not being juſtified by Faith, be. hath not peace rith Gay Cif Rom, 5. Is : " bu CHAP. IV. Re Jeſus departeth from Fudea to Galilee, 1--3. Fie meeteth with ; = Woman of Samaria, with whom he talketh of the living Wate, - 3-15. and teileth her the actions of her fore-past life ; fromwhich my jhethinks ne's a Prophet, 16-19, He teaches her concerning tug : F Do ſhipping, 23-25. And telleth her that he s that Meſſiah tha; \ was to come 3 wherewith ſne acquaints the Inhabitants of the City.
26-30. Telleth hy Diſciples what 1s his pranciple of Food, 3 1-38 to | Many of the Samaritans beiteve on him, 39--42« And coming tg 0 Cana of Galiiee, he healeth the Son of a Kings Servant, 43-54, tis (7 Hen the Lord therefore knew a how the Phari- = fecs had heard that Jeſus made and * baptizel'® Savi
more dilciples than John 6. | _ tis, a Our Saviour knew as God, from that Onmiſciency whichis inſe- SavIC parable from the Divine Nature, or «s man by the relation of others Orca b,that the Phariſees (who had the the greateit ſtroke in the Sanle- 9 drim) and the Government of the Church of the Jews, had received Is it, an Information concerning him, that he bad by his Doctrine which Iam - he preached and confirmed by miraculous Operations, made, and by lea his Diſciples, baprized more Diſciples than Fohn, thereby intiaing gore them into a new Church. £44 - 2 ( Though Jeſus himſelf baptized not « but bs dif yon ciples) of - © For he himſelf did not perſonally baptize any, but left it to his the Sar Diſciples, himiſelt attending to the greater work of Preaching the or rece Goſpel, by which men and women were made fit for the Ordinance this Re of Bapriſm. his Ha 3 He left Judea 4, and departed again into Galilee. ſ-nſe 0 dHe left the Province of Fudea,which was near to Hzern/alem,where Cy, EX tne Phariſees had their chiefeſt Reſidence and greateſt Power. e And lo went the ſecond time into Galzlee, whither he went once before, eſt the Ch. 1. 43. where he found Ph:lip and Nathanael. Galilee was a Pro- Gire vince under the Juriſdiction of Herod. Luke 3. 1, This motion of Mm F our Saviours into Galziee, is reported by Mathew, Chap. 4+ 12. and 'and þ alſo by Mark Chap. 1. 14. and Luke. Chap. 4.11.4. The two for- 7 M: mer give another Reaſon of his motion, viz. his hearing thas to the Fohm was Cait into Priſon ; of which, and the caule of it, ſee Mat. gave tO 14. 3,4, 5, S Soas after that, he publickly Preached no i10re, the forr which might poſſibly augment the number of Chritt*s Diſciples. 59 | t Diſciples tollowing him : Both theſe cauſes probably concurred 10 ered In cauſe this motion. Fohn, who by preaching and bap:izing, had la Vaſherh the Foundation of a Goſpel Church in Ga i/ee, was impriſoned, an = mu our .Saviour knew, that the number of his Diſciples increaling upon I. Fohns continzment, an Information hd been carried againlt him thing te the Phariſees ; this made him, knowing that his time was nor yer then h:; come, withdraw himſelf our of the Province of Fudea into rhat 0. t Wh: Galilee, as well to ſupply the want there ( Fobn beingin Priſon | ls Spirir to provide for his own ſecurity. Woman y 4 And he mult needs go through Samar f. tep, (ſc
F Foſephus tells us, that Samarra is ſeated between Jude and G4- Provided lilee and beginneth at a Town called Ginea,Luke17- 11. and 9. 51: bence | 52+ There were two paſſages from Fudea into Galilee, the one Wi Nicodems through the midſt of Samaria, Luke 9. 51. The other hroug! ul they |
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