Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1119

rn ta Pais of 17:0! and Tydah. and) now come, when the tive Worſkippers of Gol ſhall offer vp to him Senebes 29-1 Prare/res Ine WICKESF FRces O; 1/7dct ane TS zore Spiritual Horſt, not that Carnal Worfhip; and a w. Hiod 66 : Neither Goth the go about ro excuſe or mitigate her Sin, JA More P20 3 old Was + bo Got ary Fartier foot 4 Wore 0s ticth her felt to Chritt as 2 Propies, toteach her what to true and real ang Tone CSS Hy Parner iecceth ſuch fivt 2pIPHEL NEE 109% TO Garnet . 56 ; tar nſe weſto Worthiphim, - as thall not Worſhip him with a meer bodily laloup . 296 Grands Gia 7 ow Þy 47® ar un 4 a par Gich- and Homage, bur with-their Hearrs and Spirits ; nor with tho! c. ol 4 bn ou mode = wha ad Hd —_s -emonial performances now in uſe by Gods Preſcripr at Hieruſulm, oO aCqiunt ms With the Vi 11 Of 70s . but without them, I being come, whom all thoſe Services gig es Zur Fathers worlhipped in THOET a, | preſigure and point unts. 6: ye fay that in * Hizralalem is the piace wagre meDP Og on lpirit r, and they that worſhip him,, > worlhip 6 4. mult worſhip himin ſpirit, and in truth "Gy Mount Gerigim, Which was an exceecing I:g1 _— 7 God is not a corporcal Being, made -of Blood and Fleſh, ang" nat $:chem, Faces mage an Altar thercabouts, greg Bones, having Senſes as Bodtes have, to be pleaſed with ſenlivte 3 /obe Iirac!, Gen. 32. 20. Some fay, that it was Upon rhat i bur he is a ſpiritual Being.the Farher of Spirits.and Seer ntainthat abrabem would have offercd up 1/.1:c, Gen. 22. __ a piritual Service proportioned to his Being /, and and therefore ch,;, {2a'! another came, Certain it is, thar trom that Mountain ne that pay a Religious Homage to him, muit do it with their Spirits '-5 pronounced the Bleſſings, Dene27, 12. But it is very 40959 c = and according ro the Rule that he hath preſcribed in truth and reality, the Woman had reſpect to none of thele, bu: to tie common wagela. £1 thewill of God ; and tho? he required of his People un. of theSymaritans.to Worſhip in a Temple built pon this Mountatn, der the Law a more Ritual Figurative Service yet that isnow to > in oppoſition to that at Hieraſalet 7 Te liory of which will be = and therefore the Woman of Samaria needed not trouble her * proper here to relate, forthe {ul unueritanumsg of this Text. men "| hich was the trueſt Worſhip, that at Morn: Gerizim, or My: «at Was OOyYernour Or S41N1774, C oniuitited by Darius 5 of this your? S101, for both of them were very ſuddenly to determine, and a new balat weread in Never ic who tvils us that ON of the Sons of End 2 Gobſtantial Spiritual Worſhip was to ſucceed, ro the learn, finb the Fith Priecl was Sn in lay tothis Sanbalat the Horonee, ing of the way and method of which ſhe was more ro attend, and wierefore 4 chaſed bin frem me, Ne h. 13. 28, "This Son 1n Jaws not to ſpend her thoughts abour theſe things, which were of no. Neme { as Foep/us tells us) Was Manaſſese He was driven out of nificancy, and tended only to minitter Queittions of auto * "3 -4 44 wp EE =) 100 kn (6 5 pantry hg =o 25 The Woman faith unto him, I know the Mey; | JO0Ie WAO HIaTiLtE al; L ays _s - . - iN : ; c, - Story here leaflogtns, we mul ſupply ir our of Foſepþus,who, cometh, which is called Chriſt :, when he is comehs | 22ti9. l. 11. Cop. 8.rellsus, that he being thus driven from the Sa- will tell us all chings #. We _ | | ciilice, applied himfelf ro Sanballat, and would have pur his Wite| z The Woman by this reply, tho Ro - _ ſhewerh : away, which was Sanba/lzts Daughter, bur Sanballat promiſed him, | herſelf ro be a Few, for ſhe was one of them " o lived in an expect, l that if he would keep his Daughter as his Wife, he would nor only | tion of one whom the Zems called the Mcſſiah,Prophecied of by Ds I continue him in the Priettkood, bur make bin an High-Prieft, niel under this Notion, Dan.9. 25. 25, and by the PſalmF, P/alan, t ind build him a Temp!e, like that at Hieruſalem, upon Mount Gerz- which term Meſſiah figntties Chris, (that + inn ) inthe Greej; a 21, With rhe leave of Dari ; upon this, Manaſſes itaid with San- | zz ſhe hada further Notion, That this Meſjiab ſhould be a great Pro at ballat, and there alſoreforted many to him whom Nehemiah had | pher. Deut.1 8. 15. yea ſhe appears ro have had a further Notion oi the rurned out of the Prie:thood at Hieruſalem for Marrying ſtrange | Meſſiah,viz. that when he came he ſhould reveal to them the whol c Wives. Sanballat was very near lofing his Opportunity through the | will of God as tothe Salvation of Man, and the Worſhip of Gd; F tzvour of Darius, by the Conquelt of Darius by Alexander the Great. | this Iets us know, that ſhe was one of the A/ſyr:an part of the hh _ But iz was regain'd by his Brother Faddus his ftubborneſs, who was| habitanrs of Samaria. If any ask how ſhe, being a Samaritan, ſhoul High-Prieft in Ferijalem, and refuſed ro own the new Conqueror, | know any thing of the Meſſiah, the Samaritans receiving only the x wich advantage Sanvailat rook,and offered Alexander the ſurrender | five Books of Moſes ? Ir is eaſily anſwered, That even the five Book f or all Places in his truſt to him ; and being by that means ingratiated | of Moſes make mention of the Meſſias under the Notion of the Seed > with Alexander the Great, he thereby obtained leave of him ro baild | of th Woman, Gen. 3. 15. the Seed of Abraham, Gen. 12. 3 5Sjjl a Temple in Mount Ger:7im,where his Son in law Manaſſes ſhould be| Gene 49. 10. The Prophet like to Moſes, Deur. 8. 15. And for the the H1:b-Priet, promiting Aiexander, that by this means the force | Meſſiah, ſhe might eafily learn ir from other Jews, chat the Perſon Y of the Fews would be broken, fo as there would be no danger of their | called Shiloh, and the Prophet, was called by Daniel the Mii, th Con{piring. Accordingly he preſently built this Temple, and ſoon as © Jeſus faich unto her, I that ipeak unto thee ys uf atter dyed, leaving his Son in law Manaſſes, Brother to Faddws the | yg oy, _ High-Prest, in Hreruſalem, High-Priejt in this new Temple which| ,, Thar ſameMe//iah,of whom thou declareſt thy felf to hare ſome co afterwards proved an 4/y/zm or Santtuary for any who were accuſed expe&ation, and from whom thou expecteſt ro hear all things ne. Ci amongit the Jews at Hreruſalem, Thus theſe rwo Temples ſtood for ceflary to Salvation. Some here enquire, why our Saviour rake Fic about 220 Years; then Hr canus anHigh-Prieft of re Fews at Hie-| tg this Woman ſuch a plain Diſcovery of himſelf, when as ve fn boy r1/aiem, deitroyed it ; but (till they looked upon the Ground as holy, | py; in the Goſpel ſo cautious,and ſo often charging his Diſciples: Sor and came thither to »pertorm. their Devotions. With reference 19 ro make him known. Some think our Saviour thus gratitied the par this {uperſtirious Practice, the Woman of Samaria faith, OurFather s Honeſty and Simplicity which he diſcerned in this Woman.notcom: ho iT'orſ/pped, (that is,have uſed time our of mind tro Worſhip) in this ing to catch him, bur to be inſtructed from him ; bur poſſiblyif ve befo Mountain. And + the Jews hold that none migat Worſhip God by: wiltly conſider thoſe Texts wherein he charged his Diſciples no: ty latte *acritice any where but at Hreryſalem, according to the Law, Devz.| nuke him known, we ſhall find that the rhing which he ciutioned wheat 12. 14-266 ; them againft, was their publiſhing of him as the Son of God, which ; 21 Jeſus faith unto her, Woman, believe me, the| our Saviour defired ſhould be concealed, till he ſhould be fo 2:c!uret fs hour comethz when you ſhall neither in thisMountaink, | with power by bi Reſurre&ion from the dead, Rom. 1. 4, thit tis þ 1107 Yer at Hizruſalem worſhip the Father /, Enemies by a charge of Blaſphemy againſt —_—_ OY Y ; Weman thou owneſt me as a Prophet, whoſe Office it is to re- | before his Hour was come, Now we ſhall obſerve that the 7:0:;h0 of 0! veal the Will of God uato men; 1t is therefore thy Duty to give Cre- they expected a Meſjtah, yer had no ſuch Notion of him. "i Cit to what 1 N33! reveal to thee abour the trueand right way off 27 And upon this came his Diſciples x, and mar- it fk; Vo:ſiiping God. The time is coming, yea at hand, when you | velled that he talked with the woman y ; yet no man gs ia!l neither in this Mount Gerz3zm, ( where your Fathers have fo| ſajq,what ſeekeſt thou? or why talkeſt thou with hers! the Þ long Worikiped God ſaperſtitiouſly, without any direction from him)] They, as we heard before, were gone into the City Sichemw vel, 2 { nor yer ar Hieruſalem, Which is the place which the Lord made buy Food, a kepr there by the Providence of God till our ſow, choice of for his Worſhip, Worſhip my Father,or your Father. God| g,yiour had finiſhed this Diſcourſe with the Woman of Samarza, but The Þ is potting an end to both theſe places, and ro all that Worſhip which came after the Diſcourſe was done ; y they marvelled polibl; at ti hows (hall nor inſtitute. under the Goſpel. talking with a Woman in the Road { a thing forbidden by thei Trz great 22 Ye worſhip * ye know not what mz,we know what ditions) eſpecially a Woman of Samaria, with whom the Fw: hal the \ we worſhip »; * for Salvation is of the Jews 0. no Commerce x- Bur yer they had ſo much Reverence and Reſpst it ma; m You have no certain Rule for your Worſhip, but only do things | for their Mafter, that they enquired not curiouſly into the matte a faith 3 which your Fathers did without any Revelation of the divine Wil!,| or reaſon of his Diſcourſe. No but uy by which you may be afſured,rhat what you do is acceptable ro Gody. 28 The woman then left her water pot, and we! anoth Ve know that God hath revealed hisWill,that his People ſhould wor-[ her way into the City s, and ſaith unto the men b, Te0ye flip him at Hieruſalem by ſuch Rites and Performances, ashe him-| 1, She had no ſooner taſted of the Living Water ſpoken of 5 37 felt hath in *1ruted in kts Word, fo as we are cerrain that what we do Chriſt, bur ſhe left her Water-pnt : Thus Peter rells our Saviour, anoth 15 accepizbleto God, For unto the Fes of 01d were committed | thar they had left all and followed him. She gocth into the City 3 9 It the Oracles of God, rhe ordinary means of Salvation, Out of Zong] chem ( no doubt ) or $5char, memioned ver. 5+ b and doth not her ference went forth rhe Law,and the word of the Lord from Hieruſalem, Iſa. ſelf enter int0 a long Diſcourſe with the Citizens, only Iuviter te Other 8-3 Citizens ro come and fee Chriſt, that rhey might judge from rhe acat- dence 23 Bur the hour is coming, and now 1s, when the|.ing of their own'Ears, and the {ighr of their own - - "ers that > n true worſhippers ſhall worſhip the Father in fpiric,| 59 Come ſze a man, which rold we all ching _ and in truth p 3 for the Father ſeeketh ſuch ro worſhip | VET I did ec. 15 not this the Chriſt 4: -- "tan; who hal T7 kim « She inves them him, woder the Noienos Mm nl, BN 1, p Under the G@pel, and rhe Ringdom of the Meſſiah, which is = read bp gia on 451m bath left us upon facrec Ir |; yer further coming, and is already begun in the World, the rrue Rec = ,- gh ben at p Frrcand EEE har all thinzs ( as oiten . T1 WWorſhippers of G3d ſha!l not Worthip him, as you Samarzrans, who lis ern things, a J G ſ! b thin $ as ſhe miglur know, 9! the P10, worltip you know not what, without any Ryle or Preſcripr of the gr pores tell To. rvrhars: Gy boy prey her al things if WY and by x Word ; nor yet as toe Hypocriucal ers, who reſt upon their Sa- nd b of rope rs wy Nav repeated" to her, as thoſe things Gn the crifices and Ritual performances, as if they would purge away their | 23% 1.0 2 hag dP Pr ro believe, that he v4 My tins Pſal.59o. 8. Iſa. 1. 11. and 66,3. Micah 6. 7. no, nor-yer as winch hv on = EI ge ion and Judgment. Na 4 x11 note lincere Fews, who indeed do truly and with their Hearts the M-ſ:ab, ſhe offered 1t-ro rheir k Pre” "Hil DS 1n1t0 © on t Worſhip God : But while the firit Tabernacle was yet ſtanding which Zo Then they wen: our oi che City and came un: He tol K*:t5 Figure for rhe preſent Ine, by Sacrifices that could Not mare him e F + Vol, I; Lim that di the Service perfect as pertaining to the Conſcience »—| 6 Sirting ſtill ar the Well, they (many of rem 3! ſeat } ol mY | by meats and drinks, and divers Ordinances, smpoſed on them until\ (gntemn the News. as the Relation of a Woman, bur went [40- 7c tiny of Reformation, Heb. 9. to. That tine of Peformatio: 55! 1, "Es