4nd Saviour of the World, and committeth himſelf, and-all the con- 61:14 of this Soul to me, hall never die, Rem. 8. 18. Tho his vody #4 Mr bene of Sin, yet his Spirit ſhall live becauſe of Righteout- neſs; in God ſhall in the great Day quicken again his mortal Bo- dy wurongh the holy Spirit which dw=leth in him, and is united fo im. < He asketh Aur if ſhe believed thiss We ſhall obſerve, char our Saviour, not here only, but Marth. g. 22, 28. before he wrought his Miraculous Operations, required Peoples Fa;7h as a pre- requifire. And Ma::5. 13.58. He could not do many mighty Works in his own Country, becauſe of their unbelief. And far. H-= tells his diſciplzs, that the reaſon why they could not cure the min Poſſeſſed with the Devil, was, becauſe of their nnbe- tief: ſogreat an honour hath God given to the exerciſe of Faith.
2> She ſaith unto him, Yea Lord * I believe that
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into the world e. © This is the neareſt to the Confeſſion of Peter, Matth. 16. 16-
S. FOHN.
EL” k ; , allows, many rather give the rains to their Paſjimns, thou art the Chriſt the Son of God which ſhould come
| much plaincr and ſimpſer jcnje of rhis Seripters, if we Jay; Th: +: | Son of God, taling rpm him our Nature, did 2//) free!; with ;. © 031 017 Aff Aon; (v lich are our IN rural [nfirmities } - Py oa rot hing ai] e rea from Kſy ut tn this, that he pad 9 Sin ; he nt, *his 18 a: rognted from the Gicry of Chris” ; fer he w1mtgrily tcd to tak» our Nature up92 h; Mc: by which (2 Dec ame bbs 9. FHumane Aſſections, Ana we 3071157 720e think, tut after foo FF; tarily ſubmitted ro tak» _— perfeit ; ap SFO 2, 8:7at he wah. {rom the Pajjions and Affedions of it ; in this (e proved himeir +.: our Brother, that we migit know that he is n Medi arg fo. can eafily pardon our Infirmities, ard is ready tg help 6 S;
. . o . i . . . o > POR 7 P,'7 Infirmities which he hath experienced in his awn Ver ſq, IF 2x object, That ſreing our Paſſions are Sinfl, it doth nat agree to the ww, ture of him who was the Son of God,to jhare with us inthyom Il in nt * s nl . ' n " . IF = 3 ” ] Wer ſaith he, There i4 o great acai of difference { as totheſe Pafſions } ;.' rwirt us, and Chritl ; for Dtey Aj ectio1.7 are * horefore faulty, becau” :). are intemperate, and inorainate, ana he Ho barns ; but in Foes ho they be, yet they are Compoſea,aud modernte,annd in Obeatgncs es
” : : NES "5 Ss 6 +0 Ugg, The Paſſions of MN are faulty por £p0 = anbaaion bo 1. As they are Tir. bulent, and nor Governed by the Rule of Moderation, 2. As they of
ys- @ . . {[* ten riſe without any due gronnd or foundation, or are 9; dire&g ;
t * . 7 . » hs. a right end. They are in us a diſeaſe, becauje we neither price, > refoyce Un meaſure, arud to that dexvee alonr, whit Gor Permits and ; 11 uh it the Vanity of our minas, that we aregrieved ani trouble; little i no cauſes, being too much additled, and clexnving rs the World, 7,
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was no ſuch thing in Chriſt, no Paſſion in him tver exceeded j+; 1.1 c * ot . FOR -x
lounds, or was exerciſed, but upon a jui? and reaſonable cauſe. 1;
Which our Szviour calleth, The Rock wpon which he would build his Church, of any that we have in Scripture ; yea, and more full than | that; for thoſe words, which ſhould come into the world, are not 1n | Peter's Confeſſion. The ſum of this is, Martha doth here profels a full aflent to our Saviour as the Meſias, the Son of God; he who was Prefigurated, Propheſied of, Promiſed, as he who ſhould come into | the World.
28 And when ſhe had ſo ſaid, ſhe went her way, and called Mary her ſiſter ſecretly, ſaying, The Maſter
1s come and calleth for thee 7.
f Mary was left ar home, while Mareha, went out of the Townro meet Chriſt : Ir ſeemeth by this verſe, Chriſt had asked for her, ( tho that be not mentioned before ) Martha goeth ſecretly to her and tells her, that the Maſter was come : ( It was a Name they uſu- ally called their moſt famous Teachers by. )
29 Aſſbon as ſhe heard thar, ſhe aroſe quickly, and
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g Marics love and readineſs to attend upon Chriſt appeareth by a former ſtory concerning her and her Siſter Marrha, Recorded Luke 10.38, 39, 49 Bur the preſent ſorrow ſhe was in for her dead Brs- ther, together With the hopes ſhe conceived of having him reſtored to Life by Chriſt's coming, added wings ro her motion ; therefore the Evangeliſt faith, ſhe aroſe quickly, and came to him.
30 Now Jeſus was not yet come into the town, but was In that place where Martha met him.
31 The Jews then which were with her in the houſe, and comforted her, when they ſaw Mary that ſhe roſe up haſtily and went forth, followed her, ſaying, She go- eth unto the grave, to weep there.
32 Then when Mary was come where Jeſus was, and ſaw him, ſhe fell down at his feet b, ſaying unto him, Lord, if thou had(t been here, my brother had ' not died z.,
Coming, +þ the fa#s aown at his feet, which was a poſture, (as we have heard before) very uſual in thoſe Countries, by which they; te!tned, both their civil Reſpe&s to Princes, and Great Perſons, and alſo which they uſed in the Worſhip of God, Marth. 2. 11. Whce- cher Mary did it upon the one account orthe other, dependerh upon ' what we cannot know ; wiz. Whether ſhe at this time was fully per- | ſwaded of his Divine Nature ? of which the beſt of che Diſciples till ; Chrilt's Reſurreftion, had but a faint and uncertain perſwafion- z The words which ſhe u{eth ro him, are the ſame, which Martha aſed, wer. 21. (See the Notes there, )
33 When Jeſus therefore ſaw her weeping, and the Jews alſo weeping which came with her, he groaned in the ſpirit, and -| was troubled &.