! As they alfo did, Ch. 10. 31. Ir is in vain toenquire, where they nad Stones in the Temple ; rhey might be repairing ſome par ot it, or ſome parts of it paved with Stones might be looſe, &:; It is enough, thar we are a{{ured, that ſome they found. m He (id not go thro” the midft of them that were in this Uproar, but fri; thratt himſelf into the more innocent Crond, then paſſed thro? the midit of them. Some make a Queſtion here, how he could pi rhro? the midit of them: Whether he made his Body invifiole? (fo the Lutherans think) or whether he ſtruck his Enemics with Blindne's, or thickned the Air befove their Eyes. But what needs that Diſpute ? Admit ſome few of the Rabble to be in a Razz, the greateit part Innocent, it 1s no hard thing for us to conceive, how a Perſon diſcerning the Diſorder, may thruſt himſelf into the more In nocent Croud, and paſs by, eſcaping the Rage of his Encmics,
CHAP. IX
Chraft openeth the eyes of one that i born blind, 1-.-12. Which ti: brought hefore the Phariſees, to whom he relates theſame, 13-15 They reprove Chrift as a Sabbath-breaker, 16--17. They ſend jo the Parents of the Child, who referreth it to their Sons Teſto, 13--23.. ho was called and examined, 24--26. Who an[were:" and telleth them, that Chrift i no Sinner but of God, »27--34%- Wherefore he i excomunicated, 34. Chrift inſtruQeth the 01 1 man, who believeth in him, 35--39. And ſheweth the Phari<'s their ſpirstual Blindneſſ, 40--41,
AN as Feſus paſſed by, he ſaw a man which was blind from his Birth 4. X
4-The Evangeliſt doth nor tell us where our Saviour was Þ4.4i'5 by ; bur the word ſeemeth ro import, a palling by the High-2) ade, when he ſaw this poor man, who was born Blind; whic?!s particularly noted, becauſe ſuch Blindneſs is judged incurable as © the Art of Man.
2 And his Diſciples, asked him, ſaying, Mater who
did ſin, this man or his parents, that he was born
blind 6 ?
b The DiſciMes Queſtion ſuppos'd rwo thipgs for Truth; x« Thi
all Bodily Puniſhments and Aflictions come upon men for 910. Ei That as ſome come upon them for Perſonal fins, ſo others Come "t
on them for the fins of their Parents. The latter 1s nrgnelionae'f true ; lo is the former, but not univerſally, as there are OY are 0
; : al nor 3 Jeſs anſwered, Neither hath this man ſinned, NN
nis parents c, * but that the works of God ſhout 9
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m:de manifeſt in him 4. Inn c Our Saviour muſt not be underfiood here, 38 mn; ON oem the Blind man or his Parents free from Sin; and a degre” = oO wa
, , , wo ©. Cage yl ring ſuch a Punithment ; but as ſpeaking ro 313 D.fcip!: We BOLD ON 149
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58 Jc1us {aid unto them, Verily, verily, I ſay un you, before Abraham was, I am &-
brahams time conititutred Mediator. As he 1s ſaid ro be the Lany ſlain from the Foundation of the World, Rev. 1 3. 8. So 1Pce. 1.29,
57 Then faid the Jews, thou art not yet fifty year:
þ Chritt was at this time bur Three and thirty Years od, and v9.
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19, Fo 17+ 4» f}1s general work was, To glorite God upon the Th 25 by working out the Redemption of Man, fo by revealing his 4111 ro the Sons of Men.and working Miracles for the gtoriying «he nam? of God : faith Chritt, 7 -.zve a ſet trme to work, 23, Met 13, "hat which he here calleth day, the rime wherein Chriſt was to Ive _—_ the Earth. e Lam not to be here always, there will come a ime when 1 mult be abſent from the Earth, then none of this work -11 he done. A good Argument to pertuade every Chritttan to work while the time of tins Lite Jalterh ; for che Night of Death will cone, V hen no Man can any longer work out tus S4yation :
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o:y;our meant by zhe day, mentioned zer. 4. v3. The rime he ſhould be *n the World : (faith he.) So /ong a 1am in the World it 35 a 1+ of my work to ſhe light to the world. Chrift indecd, though be fad let the World, is yer tlie light of the World ; bur he was the Lipht of the World, that part of the World, eſpecially where hc was in a impre eminent ſenſe ſo long as the World cnjoyed his bodily pre- ence 1n It :
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” :-round, and made clay of the fpirtle, and he f| anointed
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tad þ Several myRerics Allzgories are found out by inen of [uxuriant fancies with reference to the manner gf our Sayiours curing Unis blind
f man ; asif our Saviour had made choice of clay, to ſhew, that as he
p/n ar firſt made man of the dutt of the Earth,ſo he could again cure him