x They eaſily underſtood that our Saviour did not ſpeak of any Worldly Food, by his oppoſing the Labour he mentioneth, and per- ſ{wadeth unto, ro a Labour for the World ; bur ill they did not un- derſtand what Labour he ſpake of, bur dreamt of the works of the Law, knowing of no other work which God commanded, but whar was preſcribed in the Law ; and they probably being ſome, or ma- ny of them ſtrict Obſervers, eſpecially of the Law contained in Ordi- nances, and probably, many of them of the Moral Law alſo.,accord- ing to the ſenſe of ir given by their Teachers; in which ſenſe the young Man, Ma. 19.20. being bid by our Saviour, to keep the Law ; and naming moſt of the Precepts of the ſecond Table, told hum, Al theſe things have T kept from my youth, what lack T yet 2 They won- dred what works our Saviour meant ; what Labour, when he ſaid; Labour for that bread, or that meat which endureth to eternal Life. Thinking that thoſe which kept the Law (in the ſenſe before expreſ- ſed ) had no more to do,
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» Our Lord calleththem to a Work they never thought of : The owning and acknowledgment of him to be the true Meſſiah ; the embracing and receiving himas ſuch, and truſting in him with all the concerns of their Souls ; which was neceſſary notwithitanding all their Acts of Obedience to the Law, tho moſt certainly productive alſo of rhar Obedience, and inſeparable from ir. This our Saviour calleth Tbe workof God, in anſwer to what they had faid about working the Works of God. Yet this will not prove that we are juſtified by Works, becauſe we are juſtified by Faith ; for here is no Diſcourſe concerning the caufation of Faith in the Juſtification of a Soul, bur only concerning what is the Will of God, as to all thoſe that ſhall be ſaved.
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x They thought ir reaſonable, that he who brought forth a new Doctrine into the World (ſuch as Faith in him was, they having ne- ver beard any ſuch thing from their Doctors the Pharsſzes ) ſhould confirm his Mifſion by ſome Miraculous Operation. But this was a ſtrange Stupidity, conſidering the Sign he had ſo lately ſhewed them, of feeding Five thouſand with fiveLoaves and two Fiſhes. So it was manifeſt they ſought for a Sign, not to promote or confirm their Faith, bur meerly ro feed their Curioſity ; and what our Sa- viour ſaid, Mat. 12. 39. A wicked and Adulterou Generation ſceketh after a Sign, was truly applicable torhem, andthoſe words, believe thee, erranently confirm ir ; for the aforeſaid Miracle ſpeaking in him a Creatsve Power, and being ſuch as was never wrought by any Creature, they were obliged to believe him, withour any further Sign. God ought to be believed upon his bare Word.
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a Here they magnifie Moſes ; he did not bring them a Law only, bur confirmed it by Signs from Heaven, to be the Will of God,by ob- taining for them Bread to be rained from Heaven to ſatisfie their Hunger, Exod, 16. 15. Naw. 11. 7. which is alſo confirmed by the P(almit, Plal.78. 25. This Moſes did for the whole Congregation of 1/rael forty Years together. From hence they would ſeem to conclude That they had more ground to believe Moſes than Chriſt; who, tho? he had indeed lately fed five thouſand with five Loaves, yet had done no ſuch thing. Nor conſidering that Moſes, in what he did, was bur an Inſtrument ro obtain of God by Prayer ſuch aMiracle for ſupporr- ing his People in the Wilderneſs, and that what Chriſt had done was done by a Creating Power inherent in himſelf, by which he multi- plyed rhar little proportion of Bread which they had, to make ir ſuf. cient to feed ſuch a quantity as five thouſand, beſides» Women and Children ; to which effect ic bare no proportion.
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