cranzelleth cowards Judea, 79—10, But in ihe mean time Lazarus dietl), 1i——I16. Chriſt goth to Bethany, 119—19, Whom Mar- the meeteth; and taiks of th: R. ſurrefion, 24 — 27. Chriſt weep- ing cometh i0 the Grave, 22——38. Where he findeth Lazarus four dares buried, 39, 43. And praying raiſeth him, 41— 44+ Whercjore many believe in him, 4s. Others take counſel againſt him, 46—$3- He departe:h to Ephraim, 54—56, The Chief Prief!: command congernimeg Chriſt, $7,
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not wholly ar ro rriles diltance from it : bur our Saviour was not at this time in 7rdea, for ver, 7. he ſaith to his Diſciples, Ler ws go into Jud:a. Again, he was at this time in Galilee, or in Perea : and we ſhall find wer. 17. that Lazarry had been in his grave four days, b-fore our Saviour got thither : $0 as we muſt allow art leaft fix or ſeven days betwixt the time when Chriſt heard of Lazarw his Sick- neſs, and the time when our Saviour cam= to Bethany. t This Be: #hany 1s here only deſcribed ro us, as the place where Mar:ha and Mary lived, or at leaſt u here they were þorn : Some think that Be- t/.21,y was only a part 'of the Mount Olive: ; but others more pro- bably, rhink that it was ſome little Town or City, ſtanding within that part of che Mount O/zver ; for it is here called a Town , and
oy 10. 38, 39. the place where theſe two Siſters lived, is called a Haze.
2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with
ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair «, whoſe brother Lazarus was fick. )
\not unto death x, * but for the glory of God, that the'g,, 'Son of God might be glorified thereby y. Ve.
x God hath not ſent this Sickneſs upon Lazarus to determine hi being upon the Earth ; or for ſuch a ſeparation of the Soul of Lzz4 7145 from his Body, as there ſhall be no reunion of it before the neral Reſurrection, (which is our ordinary Notion of Death : ) Go bath not ſenr this Sickneſs for that purpoſe, » but that he mipht be glorified by his Son raiſing him from the dead : God is glorified, wha his Son is glorified ; and Chriſt is glorified, when his Divine Power is manifeſted, ſo as men acknowledge him to be what indeed he js,
5 Now Jeſus loved Martha, and her ſiſter, and.
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2 He doubtleſs loved them with a ſpecial diſtinguiſhing love, is perfons choſe in him to Eternal Life before the foundation of the World, given unto him by an Eterna] Donation, called by him with an efeQuual calling, to own and receive him as their Saviour; hit this Text ſeemeth to ſpeak of him as loving this family with an hy man love, which inclineth man to a complacency 1n an obje(t bele- ved; he had a kindneſs for the whole Family ; They had ſhened him kindneſs in his ſtate of humjliation ; and he loved thoſe that fo loved him, Prov. 8. 17.
6 When he had heard therefore that he was ſick, he abode two days ſtill in the ſame place where he
was 4.
a Though he loved him and his Siſters, with a tender love, yet he did not preſently go to them, to comfort Mary and Marth4 in their ſorrow ;z nor yet to cure Lazarus, and prevent his Death ; but fjaid ſtill ewo days in the place where he was. He loved May,
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7 7 ken after that ſaith he to hs diſciples, Letus 89 into Judea again b.
b This lets us know, that Chriſt was not in J«dca, when he tt
bur he preſently upon it, takes up thoughts of returning again 1t0 that Province ; and indeed he was now Preparing for h:s laſt journey thither 3 however the Sickneſs of Lazaris, and his raiſing himfron the dead, was one occaſion of his ſo ſoon going up ; from which bis Diſciples would have diſcouraged him, as followeth.
8 His diſciples ſay unto him, Maſter, the Jews0! 12:
ſought to ſtone thee; and goeſt thou thither again c: S apſed, ſince c See Chap. 10. 30. There were not three months claplet, the Fews had ſo ſought to have ſtoned him ; and there was notes on for him to think, that their fury was in any whit abated. m_ in the other Evangeliſts, March. 16. 22, of other words they U ( Peter eſpecially) ro diſfuade our Savionr from this journey ©2 = ſalem. They were afraid for their Maftery, and they were afraida ſo for chemſclves.
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