Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1135

- Chav. 4-life #5 * He chat cometh to me, ſhall never hunger, | 11. 3.0 hall receive any benefit by the Reſurrection ; and there. _& 7eand he that belicverh on me ſhall never thirſt 8. tore they are called the Children of the Reſurrection ; and the Reſyr. = # The Bread that giverh Spiritual and Erernal Lite, and rhe Bread | r<ction,is ſomerimes ſpoken of in Scripture as if it were to be peculiar "i uphoiderh and maintaineth Spiritual Life. The Meſſiav,whom | ©© them, P/1/. 3. 11. By this the Certamty of the Reſurrection s Go: hath fentinro the World ro quicken thoſe that are dead in Tref: | ©{tabliſhed ; ir being afſerted, as the effect of the 7J/ill of God,which | paties and Sins, ib. 2.1. And 70 grve eternal Life to as many as the | 1One hath relitted ar any times tf % 4 Eotes bath green 2c: Purthoſe hat have this Life, muf? come untol 40 And this is the will of him that ſent me, that, | me; which he Ince: prets in the next Phraſe by beheving in LEN : every one which ſceth s the Son, and believeth on him, v _ A Thys he taketh then cit of all groſs and carnal Conceprions ofE1ting may have everlaſting life P3 and I will raiſe him up at &ws w and 3 rinking im @ carnal 5 1-105/ Frm cs pri ney ro —_— the laſt day 4. b y n any cate NOTED kind oz Life than tney dreamt of, By be- 0 Our Lord having aſſerted the Will of God, as to the final iſſn a FEE, 1 B31, we tave tormerly ſhewed yo be any Gr a = and happlnels of ar ers, goes on to aflert the means by aſng th Cciving of (1m as: he Mecizror and Saviour o Men, and cloſing wit whichin this Life they muſt obrain everlaſting Life; thoſe ar> ſieing 3 4 im, any - pwr; _ in - - ja SO x 4c" __ the Son.and be lieving in him ; ſeeing him nor with the Eyes of thei he im 5 2 and vo rhar do! h o (faith he) ſha a $5 pews ogy yy - ;| Bodies ; or ſeeing his Miraculous Operations, (both which theſe Ca. Tor t5, in FRET Vatzt any DNIng wp oy Bay way : Z nd pernaits did, one” yer did not believe, as he told them ». 36 ) bur eternal Happineſs, And for things of this Lite, he co _— OL; ſeeing them with the Eye of their minds, diſcerning him as the Mz _ comenient for im, ne ſhall be fed, Pal. 37. 3. See ſuch a Pronuſe ſich, and Saviour ofthe World : So fering him, as to believe eat Jt # 49 4 Os Rc Db have f him ; as to theſe, he confirmeth it again to be the Will of his Father 25 Pac T faid unto you, thar ye allo have ſeen me,] char they ſhould live eternally, 4 and that they ſhould be raiſed again ho and bolicve not 6. ar the laſt Day ; and that by him, whom God had ordained to e - [: You have ſeen me in the Fleſh. you have heatd my Doctrine, the Fudge both of the HERNE dead, Acts 10. 42, which agre our wy immer Fo ard 4 eth with what he had before ſaid, Chap. 5,28. vou have {een the Miracles which I have wronghr, confirming that d hi becauſe h Sou Poctrine,and meto be the true Meſſias, for I have done amongtt you] _ 41 The Jews then murmure at num 7, Decaule ng obt, thoſe Works which neverany Man _ oi you -» of tae _ ſaid, I am the bread which came down from Heaven, x 108 Of thoſe of whom 1t was propheſted, That zn ſeerr 7. you ſhou , . <> wh 'La: oh {ee, nor yet perceive Ch you have ſeen me wvith your]. 7 The F EPs WEre exceeding p _— this mm ce wg, rw { nM vv Eres. :nd could not but conclade by what Works I haye| ! a complaining either through Indignation, or Imparience of what for —_— wp TR . gin d ack men hear ſpoken, or ſee done ; the thing which offended, ſeemeth floſ Cone, tht Tam the rrne Meſſiah ; yet you do not. own and acknows- be his oatfins Lites ue broad and the bread of Life, bit © tedoe meas ſuch, nor will by Faith cloſe with me, and come unto| 7! 7 s calling himlelt rhe e74e = : H ; ' .4 m2 ior Lite and Happineſs. becaule he faid, that he _ down from Toſuc he Son of Jo-4 ung LL oreti ob; frat come. rol. 4 And they ſaid, * Is not this Jelus the Son of Jo-# 11,1 bao 27 rat : 1e FAatner give T '' v * ey” WO "—* ſeph, whoſe father and mother we know ? How 1s ty. word me, = hin that cometh to me; I will in no wiſe ca rhen that he ſaith, I came down from Heaven / : ; _ yo OLE K. ' Wy For Capernaum, where our Saviour now wag, was.not far irom att ; Here ariſerh a great Queſtion amongſt Interpreters of various Won mg he had been Educated, and Lived near hirry Years before Ferſwafions, What v7247g of the Father is ere meant ; whether an | rp Foſeph his reputed Farher. Underſtanding therefore nothing of that is ererna! Jefignation of Perſons to eternalLije, in order to the obtaining | 1, 6:17 Miraculous Conception, by the overſhadowing of the red : {1 8213-08 of «hich, the Perſons fo predeſiinated are given to Chriſt, as he Holy Ghoſt in the Womb of the Virgin, they were much offended cited, 02 who w3s 10 he the Meſſiah. Saviour and Redeemer of the World; or| .. his Diſcourſe, of his coming down from Heaven. | J2 | | the wit: fng the Habirsof ſpecial ſaving Grace, by which Perſons are Jeſis therefore anſwered and ſaid unto them, $9 layin ths en:lod atually to believe. If the former, rhe Words do nor only 43 ſ; ly _ Fi al Infer an tfallible Connexion betwixt Faith, and eternal Life and Murmure not among your IKeIves 'P f of his Divine Nas tis ha > C2jv.t:on z but alfo berwixr the Decree of EleCtion,and the Collation| # By this our Saviour gives them mw Thoa = fo though ving of ip:c:al Grace, by which men are enabled to believe,and believing | rure,vzz- In his knowing of their Hearts an ws hy ja = og of any but w| zre vel That whichſeemeth ro favour the latter Opinion, is, | they were inwardly Angry and tn a Rage, be? J not their Wordsto Temp; that tne 1-74 13 in the preſent Tenſe; itis nor, all that the Father Words ſpoken by rhem 3 bur our Saviour neede Or R Saviour bids forepr Por 25109, bat all that the Father gtveth,which would incline us to| tell him what was in the ſecret of their _ a on thistotell 52 thnk, thit though in other Texts the Fathers giving of Souls ro{ them not ro murmure at this, EINE Wen ore 4, Unto Ch:cjit. may tignihe his eternal Elefzon ; yet in this Text it rather] them, as followeth. to Fatherecai af 10 f 2:32 tne Donation, or giving the Habits of Special Grace. Bur] 44 * No man can come unto me, except . a G him all 2174 2:4 very Learned and Pious Interpreters of another mind, who| which hath ſent me draw him «, and I will raule Tee ; h T ti: by the Fathers giving, 1s meant the -Farhers ctuſing Souls in un at the laſt d ay. believir {i1, Free 1.4. Certain it 1s, that there are ſome choſen ro Lite, P : n d any co-aR10n, 0 man ha ard the cortuln means by which that Liſeis to be obtained, Eph. 1. # That by drawing here, isnot to be underſtoo wy bur whe- t0 eterr 4 5. A194 25 C571 1115, That Perſons fochoſen in him, ſhall nei-| force upon the Wl, 1s a thing on all hands out of ops ments What fo to) ifs 0 that Lite.nor yer of that effectual means by which it ſhall] ther by it be only robe underitood a ratzonal ar _—_— / oflnence Fire, fs be obta.getu, Whether that ezerna/ Elettion or Donation be here in | (uſed in the Miniſtry of the Goſpel) or a farther PN tha is the Thats; L.nCed ern9. is not fo rnaomentous to determine. For the Feſuits| upon the Soul, inclining it ro be willing and obe = whar is ſpiti- 'ormer Argumevt, That we underitand it of ſuch an eternal Gift,our Sa-| Quettion. The Patrons of a power in Mans Will to rp lo ation, uſt Nature HYA Bl Viour rather ex2umeth, tan accuſerth them for their Unbelief, by tell. | raally good and neceffary in order ro eternal Life _ —_— ture, It j (16 72 AM ng 16m Mey Cond not believe, becauſe they were nor given unto! derſtand it of the former only, of which the compe Ss the Goſpel live a t- EP oa, | x2 Ihe as frong again{t Specral Grace as againſt Particular| Luke 14.23. is to be underſtood, for the _—_ "Grawing ere May reac +) On” £00193 to as if that were true, 1t could be interpreted in neither| have no other Power to compel ; but 1n ___ b Maſters ; nl "Pa 5. © we Senivs, Put by their leaves, it doth nct ar all excuſe them, | mentioned is.the Acts not of the SErVants, but 0 Mt "—oncluded that Uier this; tit ry C1 whatinthem lay to come to Caritt, (bur this Que- | of the Matters, bur of the Father, it is more _—_ + of Man, by the fieſh, F104 belon2s rither to Poienueal Vriters, than Interpreters) Certain| it here ſignifies a Divine Power put forth upon the 50 Proreftan