(>,*'5; (ety? Oc 73 t. Pluce, 222d | Many therefore of bis GHcpies ft, ren they had F--370d 4-76 (Lid, Thi is an hard fayt ig fo Can hear 1c #?! * {yliowers, not thoſe that were lis DActpics indecd, bur in - ir rant followed hun £:4dt 01:4 OL CE'ttyE mM IM 5 and (ing {ent ) begcoed, £9 whom he dil; nut commit bimfelt 3,24. Now many of theſe Diſciples, having heard tneſe 49 bing no way abls 10 compretend fo great Myeries, - jap ng ih Eves opencd Ly the +p.rit 0! fiumination, fail within memnſeives. # Theſe are ſayings harc 37 impo.1ihle, to be , ate 10 bear 12ein r ' 00 | (wr When jetas knew in himiclf, that his difciples Murimured atitzy he faid unto them, Dorn this ol-} {end you x 2 ; © Chril tho! clothed with our Fleſh, yet being alſo the Ecernal Cn of (G28, knew by vertne of his Divine Natrvre, Perfonaily Uni to the Humane Nature, what w:is in the ticart of Mie: : hence is this Phraſe, kocw 71 mane ; wiich 1s 0/pTſce 50 4 know icdge elncr trom the beartng of his own Ears, as ian heareth ; 1CLIIEF 1495 C mnmeGatcly from the found of their Words. (tor wr 2a U; wutnng they fpake audibly) or from the relation G& ohers. as v hat chey Had hard ; be knew in himſelf their Thiaghts by 015 Divine Pre v- vative and Property ci ſearching the Hoarts, and trylog te Retos and diſc2rning the Thoughts of men afar oIt, x Knowing their Thoughts, ke 1a:th, Doth this give ou OCcanon of itumbling © 62 Thhat and it ye {att {22 the Son of man aſcens up * where he was xloie 7 f _ - Our Svicur by theſe words may ſeem rather to increaſe than to abate their Otience. Thar which ſtumble them, was þ1s calling a1im- x {elf rhe vread of E200; his athrining, That be came down from H-aven, Tat iecare ine 70 the Woris, Thar the way to obtain this Lite Pen © = was caring his Fleſk and drinking his Blood : How doth what be nov tclis them any way tend to farisfie them 2 He now ſpeaks of ajcenc- ing up to Heaven and atterteth that he was there betore. ſw. The tor mer aficrtior's were no way to be juititied, but upon this Founda. tion, that rio ne 2ppear'd now in the form and ſhipe of a Man. and was indee: the Son of Man, yet he was alſo God, the Erernal <on of God ; he therefore here plainly afſerts thar, rhar he was in icaven beiore he appeared asthe Son of Man upon the Earth ; and deſcending trom thence, did aſſume rhe form of a Servant; and for : further Proot of this, he relerreth them to what they were to ſee ur hcar, (ro know ) within fome few Manths after this Diſcourſe ( tor this was after lis thzrd Paſſover, which was to be the lait Year ©; 4:35 Life ) v:z7. That he ſhonld afcend up to Heaven, which it is very probably that ſome of them did fee with their Bodily Eyes, for {12 was in Gattlee when he aſcended,and Capernaum was a City of that 110744.ce, and when he afcended,rhe men of Galz/ee ſtood gazing up 13 He.ven after him, as appeats from A&s 1. 11. and had a Revelatt- 11, 347 they ſhould fee him fo come again, and deſcend from Hea-
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lime Spiritual things; the reaſon is, beczule you beltere nor 1hv ame of them queitionleſs did rruly believe, yer the moſt 6g buy for weread, v. 66 That many of them wene back, ard wa. .? 1:78 mith him, d And though Faith be an inward fecrer Af oy Soul. yer Chritt knew, and from the begining, who were Beljegs. and who werenort ; nay he had a particular knowledze of tha: iy f ciple who was to tetray hum. : Wy 65 And he ſaid, Therefore ſaid I unto you, that yg, M313 Can Come unto. me, Cxcepr it be given unto tir of my Father e.
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66e] From that ttme many of his difcipies went hyoy and walked no more with him g. M F His Diſciples ar large, fo called, becauſe they followed him part. ly to hear what he would ay, partly to ſee his Miracles, follow him no more : Many Profetlors and feeming Diſciples of Chriit, draw back and fall from their Profeſſion, rtho* none thar truly receiy: Chriſt ſhall fall away, bur be by the Power of God preſerved through Faith unto Salyation. _ :
67 Then faid Jeſus unto the twelve, Will ye alſo rg 2way h?
h It is probable that ſome ſtayed beſides the Twelve; for it is\1;} only that many of his Diſciples turned back. Nor was our Siwjoy; { who knew the Hearts of all } ignorant whar they would do ; bur!;. had a mind both to try them by this Queſtion, and alſoro conving; them rhar there was a falſe Brother amonglt them whoſe Wickedn: (cho? ir lay hid from rhem) would in a ſhort time diſcover it ſelf 68 Then Simon Peter an{wered him,Lord, to whow