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£9. _ 4 The people anſwered him *, we have heard out
- of the law, that Chriſt abideth for ever : and how faiſt
, [/ o . . 4 aghr— again the Law is taken in a larger ſenſe than in ſome places,
.- :« only ſignificant of the Books of Moſes, in oppoſition _ "ak gry other Holy Writings, as we had it before, to t "0. 34. for the places of Scripture which the people ſeem to =_ ſeem to be Pſal 110. 4. where Chriſt is called a Prieft for o os elſe to Dan. 7. 14. where the Kingdom of the Meſſiah is {aid
to be
obo mars of the Meſſiah, the people could not reconcile to
phat our Saviour here told them of his Death 3 the reaſon was,
| their not underſtanding the trueNotion of the Me/ſiahjand of his King- 4m, which they fancied not to be a Spiritual and an Eternal King- Jom, but a Temporal Kingdom here on Earth. This made them ask, how (that is, with what conſiſtency to thoſe Prophecies) if he indeed were the Meſiasy he ſaid, The Son of man ſhould gie, (for thar they underſtood by the term lifted up) which maketh it very plain, that ir was a phraſe they uſed to expreſs that kind of Death by. They ask who he meant by the Son of Mari.
light,
8. eth/. th Our Saviour thinketh not fit further to open himſelf as to that
*1t concerning the Meſiah, and his Divine Nature ; into a dire& iffertion of which he muſt have entred, had he given a dire&t anſwe; to their queſtions ; ocherwiſe what they had objefted, might eaſily have been anſwered by our Saviour, by diſtinguiſhing berwixt the exo Natures in his own Perſon ; according to his Divine Nature he «35 not to die, tho' he died according to his human Nature; and after his ſuffering and ReſurreQion, his whole Perſon, in which both the Divine and human Nature were United, were to indure for ever tut he thinks not fit to diſcourſe this point, bur return ro what Jim had told them, John 1. 9. and what he himſelf had ſaid, Chap. 9.54 That he was the light of the World, tho' poſſibly by light, he here underſtandeth thoſe beams of Goſpel DoQtrine, which ifſued our from him as the fountain of light. Yer a lictle while, 1 who am the great light, and the true light of the World, am with you: or yer 2 little while, the Goſpel which is light, and direRs you in the way to Heaven, is with you, for within a few years (under forty) after this, their City was deſtroyed, and their Nation ruined, and before that time the Apoſtles were turned away from the generality of that Nation to the Gentiles, A, 13. 45. and 19. 9. 1 He in the next Verſe expoundeth himſelf as to what he meant by walking, wiz. be- lieving : make uſe of the /ight, both to guide your underſtandings :nd judgments, and alſo to dire& your feet: for look on men in the World, while they have the guidance of the light of the Sun, know how to order their ſteps. and to dire& their feet ; bur if once it be dark, they know not how to direCt their feet in their way 3 but err, and ſtumble, and fall. So it will be with you, when I ſhall be gone (who am the great /ight of the World, while I am in the World, as he ſpake, Chap. 9.5.) and not only I gone, but the Goſpel, which is that light which I ſhall leave behind me, be gone, by my Apoſtles turning to the Genziles, through your perverſe refu- ſal of the Salvation of it, (as 4#s 13. 46. and 19. 9.) When you ſhall be utterly ruined, (as it will be at the deſtruftion of your City) then you will walk in darkneſs, having no means of Salvation left you,
\ 36 While ye have light, believe in the light m, that ye may be * the children of light ». Theſe things ſpake Jeſus, and departed o, and * did hide
himſelf from them p. ” » He either expounds what he meant before, by his calling to them to walk in the light, viz. Believing in him who is the true and great light of the World, Or elſe he declares Faith in him to be their duty, as well as Obedience, which is a point our Savionr had Often before preſſed : While 1 am amongſt you, and when I ſhall be gone from you, and the light of the Goſpel yet ſtayeth behind amongſt you ; imbrace me, and receive me as your Saviour, and yield all Obedience to the preſcriptions of my Goſpel. » Thar you may be children of the light ; this the Apoſtle expounds and inlarg- eh upon Eph. 5.8, 9.10, 11. o Affer Chriſt had ſpoken thele things in Jeruſalem, he departed to Bethany, p where he obſcured timſelf from his Enemies.
37 But though he had done ſo many miracles before
tiem, yet they believed not on him 9.
9 The Miracles of Chriſt did not work faith in any, yet they had atendency both to prepare Souls for an affent to the propoſition of the Goſpel, and alſo for the receiving Chriſt as the true Meſſiah, and Sviour of the World ; as they evidenced a Divine Power in him by which he wronght thoſe mighty Works ; bur yet they had nor this elleft upon the generality of the Jews.
©. 38 That the ſaying of Eſaias the prophet might be fulfilled which he ſpake, * Lord, who hath believed "ur report ? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord
Y revealed r ?
7.20 3s that which 1/a:aþ Propheſied, 1a. 53. 1. appeared to be fulfilled in them; for fo rerm = ET doth > n Scripture always denote the final cauſe, with reſpe& to the