9 And they which heard #, bzing convicted by their own conſcience, went out one by one, b2ginning at the eldeſt, ewe unto the laſtoz and Jelus was left alone, and the woman ſtanding in the midit p.
0 This was an Ape of very great Corruption as to mens . Lives and manners, as well as to Doctrine and Worſhip 5 and as others enormiries of Life were very common and ordinary amongſt them, ſoit is very probable were Adulteries; and that their Rulers and Teachers were not witkout great Guilt, Now, ſee the Power of Conſcience when fer on work by God ; theſe Accuſers Conſciences wereto them as a thouſand Witneſles ; they were reproved _— victed by them, and nor able ro ttand under the reflections of them, or to ſay any rhing in Anfwer to what our Saviour bad ſaid : They went away one aftcr another ; and potlibly it is particularly nnred, that they beg an at rhe Eldeft, becauſe the Conſcience of the Eldett of them, charged them more deeply for wore and greater Sins. p Jeſus was left not wholly alone, for the nexr Words tells us, that the Wo. manwas it1ll lett itanding in the midit ; and nu doubt bur his Apo liles were there, for they contiantly attended him 3 and no doubr Uivcrs others were allo there: But the meaning is, that he was by this means quit of the Screbes and Phariſees Company, who were Qt out of Shame, being thus Convicted by rheir own Conſciences, | which told them, that whatſoever this Woman was, they were no fit Accuſcrs.
lo W::ea Jeſus had life up himſelf, and ſaw none but the woman P, he ſaid unto her, Woman, where
= thoſe thine Accuſers? Harh no man condemned thee q ?
Þ Thecloſe of the former Verſe told us, that though the Scribes and Phariſces were gone, yet the Woman was left in the midit, ex- pedting Chritts Seatence : q Chriit knew well enough that the Scr:bes and Pharzfees, this poor Womans Atcuſers, were gone, bur yet he Acterh warily, and calls tor her Acculers, and asks, 1f no man had Condemned ner 2 Thereby intimating, that the Law againſt Adultery 48 a Juit Law ; and it the Crime were proved againſt her, ſhe deſer- ved to Die; bur the mutt firit be Convicted and Condemried: He
2uks her, it ſhe were Condemned ? For then he had nothing te ſay. She tells him, none had.
his Fathers entire Approbarion of his Office, and Fideliry in the dif- charge of it ; and the concurrent Tettimony of the Father with him: Therefore his Record was authentick and true. but they did not be- lieyve his Mitſion feom Heaven, nor that he was to aſcend thither and accordingly diſvalued his Teſtimony.
I5 Ye judge after the fleſh b, ® I judge no man c.
me 3 or, according to your own Paſſions and Corrupt Affections, c1 judze no man in that manner, or jadge no man alone, as it follow- ethin rhe next Verſe.
16 And yetif I judge, my judgment is true, for *I am not alone, but I and the Father that ſent me d.
d My Teitimony isnot to be looked upon as a ſingle Teſtimony
for my ſelf ; rho' I do judge, yet wy Judgment is true, for no At
of mine-is a ſingle At : I and my Father are one, and what I do, my Father alſo doth, thar ſent me into the World as his Ambaſſadour:
So as if the Judgment of God be true, which you all own, grant, and acknowledge ; then my Judgment is true, becauſe ir is not mine only, bur the Judgmenr alſo of that God whom you own, acknow-
ledge, and worſhip, and who ſent me inro the World.
I7 * Itis alſo written in your Law, that the teſti- mony of two men is true e. .
e It is written, Devts 17. 6. and 19. 15. God fo ordered itby his Divine Law, that every thing ſhould be cftabliſhed by rhe Teftimony
of two Witneſles. 18 I am one that bear witneſs of my ſelf, and the
Father that ſent me beareth witneſs of me f.
F 1 (faith one Saviour ) bave rwo Wirnefſes ; I am one, I bear Witneſs of my ſelf : My Father is another, for he bearcth Witneſs of me. Our Saviours Argumencation ſeemerh weak, unleſs we look up- on him as exempr from the condition of ordinary men, and no mcer man, by reaſon of the Perſonal Union of the Divine and Humane Nature in his Perſon. Nor mutt our Saviour be underſtood here to
diſtinguiſh himſelf from his Father, in reſpect of his Divine Being ;
for ſo he and his Father are one, bur in reſpe of his Office, as he was ſent, and his Father was he wbo ſent him. And indeed in the whole, he ſeemerh ro accommodate himſelf ro the Peoples Appre»
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henfions of him.
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fear the greater judgment of God, if thou goeſt on in a courſe of
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S.F O my Pather, * it ye had Known me, Je ſhould have known my Father alto 5,
Thou talke't munch of thy Father, where is he? We know no Either which thou hait bur the Carpenter, .Jo/eph 3 we do not look n;51 him as fo crevible a Witneſs ;nthe Caſe, as tro take his Teſtt- mony in ſuch a matter as this 3s : þ Chritt tells them, thar rhe reaſon why they did not know the Father, was becauſe they did not know and acknowledge, receive and belicve him ; for if they had received and belic:cd him, they would not then have been at ſuch a loſs | have known witere is Father was, or who he was. The Eternal Fa- ther is 1:01 to be known, but in, and by, and through the Son.
20 Theſe words fpake Jeſus in- the Treaſury as he
him &, tor his hour was not yet come /. :