Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1164

ill of D4 D. Fd O H N, CliaD.: Way hap £ Yo ; | ) 21, Ar heard, falth, ver. 2. 79% ade? we Lelde the fit waters, Chrifi | the care and condu ofthe Ciurci of God. they do ir with nn £0: I here ſpeaxe:h of himielf under the Notion cf 2 Shepherd thar went j.Defign ro the Souls of Peoples nor. our of any care cop reſp & unco to by n ce his Sicep, and whom the Sheep followed 3 and thereby lers | cheir 800d ; bur n:eexly thar they may ferve themſc/ves jn he ruin of tt. wg Sees the duty of all faithful Paors'in the Church, fo to ive, that | of my Peoples Souls. Dur: tha: 5; For my ena, In comino into the ve 04 Fo _ Flocks may follow them With lafery; Wi:1ch carnor be, unleſs World : I am NOr come to deitroy them, yr eo fave chem : I am ing of Ds tO Chriſt, 1 Cor, 31, I. 7 For faith cur Savic Ur, Thoſe thas cone, - char ney irhe have a Tpiri-ugl Life, and 2 aft, Erernz] there _ rene Sheep, they knnw y VICE; thereby Fgnifying, thar| Life ; tharthey mlgit live the Li'c of Grace nere, ard ror f:11 ofthe ul, » ei diſcerning berwixe Truth and damnahle Errors, which the | Life of Glory hereafrer,, and not only char they. m.'y FME1y live br may Le unro all rue Believers, 1 Zohn 2.'27, that their Life may abourd, through the Pt olfjng. Br, vgrhnings, ir. 5 Anda ſtranger will they not follow, but will lice | quicknings, ard - ortirgs of my holy 2nd 874-1015 Spirie, Th, ms 'rom him : for they know not the voice of ſtrangers4. | my 4c1oved may nor only drink but drink abundencty, nt only Titi from 1M : 1 : : | live, but live avundently turniſked ith a! the atfucrc, « and 4" þ This he further 1nargech npon, telling x Im, That his Sheep modations of a & ritual Lie. #C.S and 2cco- pa ould not foilow thoſe thar did not lead them Into his Truth, ang * Jpirir <"_ . In the _ his ways, for they underſtood not ſach Voices, Here atiſcth a. 15 4 am tne good Shepherd : 7 he gocd Shepherd "Ezeſ,4. Gog Queſtion ; Whether the Elef of God, or luch as being truly called, |Elveth his life for the ſheept. 5 23. ""_ and believe in Chriſt, are the Sheep of Chriſt in the moſt tric and PrO-j t That g00d Shepherd, Prophecied of, T/a, 40.11. Tcannor a2oree X 3" 24. ©, and per ſenſe, may not be ſeduced Into Errors, and led away by Strangers 2 with thoſe who think, thac Chriſt hece 'rezketh nor of himf«1; © Heb. 13 25 b and Arſw, We mult diſtinguiſh hrſt,, berwixe ſingle Perſons, and the Be-|the good Shepherd, With reference to his Office, as he 2; the Meſſeah ; \ Fer. 5.4 f Pex. nerality of Believers : As jn + Flock, the &cocrality keep together, | bur obly in Oppciition ro the Hiriings after mationeg, a1 a. 1 the following the Voice of the true Shepherd; tho ſome particular Shee low, that he tus calleth himſelf, both in the one reſpeR, ang the Clare may wander : So the generality of Believers will be found-keepj other; but # cannot allow the latrer (enſe excluſively to the former a trys cloſe ro rhe Truth and Dodtrin of Chri » tho amongſt them ſome for what followeth, 1s peculiar to the Keſſiah, of w Om it was Pro- Pod, (ag articular Perſons may. be leduced, and led away by Seducers, Se- phecied, Day. 9.25, That he [nol be (us off, but ror for him/elf: and uilton, an We muſt diſtioguiſh betwixt Errors, and 422unable Errors, a Mcugh ir be true, Thar the tr ye Smeplerd will hazard his Lite for hi; ected, ertinacious adherence to Which, will divide the Scul from Chritt, Sheep, as Davis did, whey, he eNcountred the Lion, ard the Bear, Wit oy end in che ruin of Souls Chriſt's Sheep may follow Strangers, | 1 Sam. 17. 34» 35. yer jt cannor be fad robe the duty of the b: ſt Nurch, diſembling the Spiricual Voice of the true Shepherd alittle Way, but Shepherd, to lay down his Lite for the Sep 3 for the Life of a Man after, they will not follow them into fuch Errors as will plunge their Souls |'is much more Vaſubje than the ie of any Feaſt, Our Saviour there it n io Erernal Ruſo and Deſtrudtion. Thirdly, T CY May hear even fore doubtleſs io this place ſhewerh wherein he Was the mor excel ently this Voice of Strangers ſpeaking to them perverſe 2d damnable lenc Shepherd, far excelling the bf Shepherds in the World, becauſe nary things : but ic will be bur for 2 ſhore time, God will reduce nd} he was come, nor only to expoſe, Fazard, and adventu'e hjs Liſe, bill a Part brivg them back again, « ex, 28. They ſhall never periſh but actually, Wiilingly, and freely ro Ray it down, alt bb df the 6 This parable ipake Jeſs unto them : but they un-] 12 ut he that is an bireling, and not the ſhepherd; 14; on derflood not what things they were which he ſpake un-| hoſe own the ſheep are not , ſecth the wolf coming, 0: 28 ets of to them /. : | ; ald -* leaveth the ſheep, and ficeth : and the wolf *zcch. 15, 0 1 aring / Our Saviour was wont to inſtru them in the Myſteries of the [catcheth them, and [cattereth the ſheep. I6, 17, = ji God kingdom of God by Parables 3 that is, Similityges taken from "#7 » This mh deal in Sheep, either keep tt em theraſelves, or by wy, ſonable actions of men, which m1ght be, and.were proper Oo Exprets | their near Relations, as F.c1bs Sons, an & Davids ang Lakr thin k was Splricual things by : wherefore he uſeth this Methcd in Teaching, we | rers did ; or elle they hire Perſons to keep them for them. There is y de- are toid, Mar, 30+ IO, 11, 12, 13. They well Enough underſtood | , grear deal of ditterence derwixe the care of ar oWwrer, and the care into the Words jn which thoſe Parables were delivered 3 bur the Jaward of an hired Servant in any thing - Tte owner taketh 4 More Na. the Senſe, the Spiritual Myſteries ſhadowed our In thoſe Similirudes > | ral diligent Care, becauſe the Whole profir ofthe Sheep, «| riving hoſe theſe they underſtood not, neither the common fort of his Dilcj on and doing well, returnerh unto himſelf, 7 e hired S: rv2ne ma ds underſtood them, nor did the better ſorr of his Diſciples Oe be careful 1n hjs mesſure ard degree; bur no tuch Servanr will take - wy them, without a further explicatien of them, ur Lord therefore | the care that an Owner Will take; nor un the hazards ; Fat he will ug 10 the following Verles, comes to give them a large CXplication of run, becauſe he knoweth, that let the Fiocks thrive Never 1g well, ke "IO | ; h ſhall have no more +) an i.e Wages he is hired for: therefore, whar 7 Then faid Jeſus unto them dgaln, Verily, verily I | our Saviour faith, is true, COEcerning the &Crrality of ſuch hires 8. p. p 4/ unto you, I am the door of the Shee CAnts, they will take ſome care of the Flocks © heep in th<j; 17m, e, ® Our Savigur had before been ſpeaking ot the Door in another | ſo long as there 4PFeareth no danger, bur If any danger 2Prarert, Notion ; there he ſpake of the door of the Shepherd, here of the. door | they leave the Sheep, ard tlce, and the Wolf cometh, and (c: fterceh 5 of the. $þ4p ; there of the Door (that is ) the true and regular way of | the Sheep. IFRS = s Encrance into the Care, Condu&, and Overninent of the Church I3 The hireling fleeth, becauſe he js ap hirelins, here, of the true way of Entrance, not into the Church Militane| and careth not for the Sheep wp, | BY \ oy, bur jnco che Chureh Triumphant, Tr may'be alſo underſtood » The reafon Why, he that js 4 meer hired Servant, and tarh ng / le® Door, or ws narggA and Admiffion : Into the Church Property in the Shae Þ, tleeth, Is, becauſe he is an H.reling, and det ; Fe here upon t e Earc Czrcumeifeon; Baptiſm, External Pro. what te doch MEerly for his Wages ; ard when 3 Eange: Liſeeh Jin, are the Doors into the YV;/ble Church; but none unleſs by | which his Wages will ro: ballance, he wil; Ne VEr encoutter jr ke | iritt, thar js, by a true ang lively Falth wron he by the Spirit of hath no Property in the Shicep, nor 40y love to them, LOr care of | briſt in the Soul, can be 2 true Member of Chriſt's Inviſible Charch them. Ae po the Earth, much _ 2 Member of hj« Glorious Church In 14 I am the good Shepherd, and know * my / _ Tims 5 All that ever.came before me, are thieves and roh- _ = known of mine m 10 Hircling, the Shee bers: but the ſheep did not hear them 7. 3 This mutt nor