4 If 1 do ſuch works & can be done by no Jeſs than a Divine Power, being beyond the Power and ability of all Creatures ; then, though you will not give credit to any bare affirmations of my ſelf, becauſe I fay I am the Son of God ; yer believe the thing for the Teftimony that my Works give unto it. Proper effcHts give Teſtimo- ny to the proper cauſe : He who doth thoſe things which none but God can do, muſt needs be God, or impowred by God to do them. þ This is the way for you to know, be perſuaded,and to believe, That the Father is in me by his mighty Divine working Power, C/. 14-10. The Fath-r that awelle:h in me, he doth the works; and I work in,and rugether with him. This Phraſe, The Father i in me, and] in him ; teacherh us three things concerning Chriſt. 1. His Oneneſs in Nature and Efence with the Father. 2. His Perſonal diſtintion from his Father ; here zre two mentioned, The Fa:her and Me. None can pro: perly be ſaid to be in himſelf. 3- The moſt perfe&, and intimate, in dwelling of on: of the Perſons in the Holy Trinity, 1N the other.
39 * Therefore they ſought again to take him /: but
/ Becauſe he (aid, that the Father was in Him, and He in the Fa- ther, by which they well enough underſtood, that he afſerted an union with the Father ; rhey did not again go about to ſtone him, as they did before ; he had ſufficiently ſtopped cheir mouths,as to their importation o© Blaſphemy ; bur they ſeek to apprehend him, with a deſign ( no doubt ) to carry him before the Sanhedrim, ( their great Cou:t, which had Cogniſance of thoſe things. ) »» Bur as he had once and again b-fore. ſo he now agatn eſcapeth out of their hands : whetber bv darkning the Air before their Eyes, or (as ſome would have it } making his Body inviſiule, by his Divine Power ; or what other way, the Scripture tells us not, and it is great raſhneſs co de-
9. 7 0, H N. . Chap, 7 ha
, We read of a Woman, Luke 7. 29. that came behing one © viour while he was at dinner, in the Houſe of $:»1% the Phariſe. brought an Alabaſter box of Ointment, ſtood at his Fcer behin] hi? weeping, waſhing his Feet with her tears,and wiping them wich, - hair; bur it appears by the ſtory, ſhe had been before 2 ” Sinner. We read of another Woman, Matthew 26.5, ,, 1, 14. 3. that poured a box of Ointment on our Saviours heaq Mm: %s was at dinner in the Houſe of Simon the Leper : Bur we in tho: wy Evangeliſts, read nothing of her waſhing his feer with her tears 0 wiping them with her hair ; but in the next Chapter of this Goſpel ver. 3- we have a ſtory, which ( whether it be the fame with o%, other or no, I cannot tell ) is that doubtleſs to which this Verſe wy ferreth : The Names and circumſtances much agree. There _ other Maries, ( for Mary was a very ordinary name among them but this was that Mary which is mentioned, Chap. 12. 3, that aointe] the Lord *'with Ointment, &c. It was her brother was Sick,
3 Therefore his ſiſters ſent unto him, ſaying, Lord,
behold, he whom thou loveſt, 1s ſick w.
w Chriſt ( as was faid before ) ſeemeth to have been very family at the Houſe of theſe two Siſters, and ofren to have made them his Hoſtefſes ; and if it ſhould appear by this Verſe, that in thoſe vigt; he had ſhewed particular kindneſſes to this their brother Lazy, who was now Sick, this makes them ſtile their Brother, kim 2j,,. thou loveſt, They plead no merits either of their own or his, ty only plead with him for his own goodneſs and love. Nor do ths expreſs in particular, what they deſired for their Brother, though ir 15eaſily underſtood by their repreſentation of his ſtate and op. ition.
4 When Jeſus heard that, he ſaid, This ſicknefis
notorious
termine. . : 40 And went away again beyond Jordan, into the.
place where John at firſt baptized - : and there he a- bode 0.
# Chriſts time was not yet come when he ſhould be berrayed,and Crucified ; it was yet three months and more toit ; He ſaw the Jews at Jeruſalem were in ſuch a rage and fury, that there was no ſtaying in that Place : He goes beyond Jordan to Bethabara, where he found 7ohn at firſt Biptizing, John 1. 28. before he Baptized in Enun near Salim, Chap. 3. 23. See the Notes on John 1. 28. Poffibly he choſe thar place, as being a place where 704, had been preparing a way for him, by turning mens hearts in ſome meaſvtre for receiving the Goſpel, and pointing out Chriſt to his Diſciples, as the Lamb of God who taketh away the fins of the World. » How long he abode there, we cannot tell; probably, till he took his laſt journey from Galilce to Jeruſalem, of which the other Evangeliſts ſpake , Marth. 20. 17, Mark to. 32, Inte 18, 31+. What he did in Galilee during theſe thre» months, jon reports not, only ſaith,
41 And many reſorted unto him, and ſaid, John did no miracle p : but all things that John ſpake of this man
were true 9.
p God fo ordered it in the Wiſdom of his Providence, that though Elijah and Eliſha vnder the Law wronght Miracles, by which they confirmed their Divine Miſſion ; yet John coming immediately be- fore Chriſt, as his Meſſcnger and Forerunner, wrought none ; that fo the Glory of Chriſt in working Miracles when he came, might be more clear and evident. This made the People, that came to Chriſt while he was in Galilee, ſay thus amongſt themſelves, We pid a
not unto death x, * but for the glory of God; that the, 'Son of God might be glorified thereby y. "Ws
x God hath nor ſent this Sickneſs upon Lazar to determine his being upon the Earth ; or for ſuch a ſeparation of the Soul of Liz, 7144 from his Body, as there ſhall be no reunion of it before the neral Reſurre&ion, (which is our ordinary Notion of Death : ) Gy hath not ſenr this Sickneſs for that purpoſe, y but that he mipht be glorified by his £on raiſing him from the dead : God is glorified, wha
great Veneration to Fohn the Baptiſt, yet he never did thoſe things
which Chrift hath done. 9 And whatſoever John told us of this Per-
ſon, hath proved true; Re hath done,and doth greater things than ever 7okn did, and is in the Judgment of ſenſe to be preferred before him : ſhould we not now believe in him ? John toid us he was the
Lamb of God, who takes away the fins of the World, and told us
much more concerning him, which our Eyes ſee is true.
42 And many believed on him there r.