LOOKING UNTO J .ESUS In his Life. Book IV. Part Il. CHAP. I. ~ Joh. 1. 2. For the Life was maniftfled, and we have feen it. 5 ECT. r. Ofthe beginni11g of the Gofpel. N this piece as in the former, we muft firft lay down the object • and then direct you how to look_upon it. The Objed: is Jefus carrying on the work of mans falvation during the time ofhis 'Life. Now in all the tranfactions of this time, we !hall obferve them as they were carried on fncceffively in thofe three years and an half of his minifterial office , or if youwill in thofe four corn– pleat years!iJefore his paffion and death. For thefirfiyear, and his actings therein, the Evangelift Mark_begins thus, The Mark,,,: b•ginningofthe Go(pel of 'fefu; Chrijfthe Son of God; q. d. the beginning of that age of the world, which the Prophets pointed our for the time ofgood things to come; or the beginning of the exhibition and completion of that Gofpel, which in refped: of the promife, figures, and figoification was from the beginning of the world. This beginning of the Gofpel, the Prophets fomrtimes expreffed by the rearm of the !aft dayes, and it If•. '' z, ., Jhallcometopafs in thda.ftdayes: fometimes by the term of the acceptable year of the . . , ~ord, the Spinto{the Lord is upon me, t•proc/aim the acceptable ye..-r of the Lord : fome- l'l,llca 4· 1• umesbythetmnof tl)e Ktngd-om of God. ..Andinthedayes ofthefe Kin$s, Jha/1. the lfo. 6t. 1, 2 , God of heaven [et "P a Kingdom, which jhall mver be dejlroyed. Someumes by the Dan~ '· 44·"-1 .term ofanew beav·en, and anew earth, behold J create new heavens, and a new ·earth, lfo. 65. '7• and the former jl'"ll not 'be remembred, nor come in mind. Howfoeverit is called, this is co!lcluded that the beginning of the Gofpel is not to be reckoned from the birth of Chnft, bur fronnhe beginning of the minif\ry and preaching of r·hn the Baptift; from Mat.u;·z,I3 the Jayes of[ohn the B<<ptijl until now (faid Chrifl) the Kingdomofheaven {ujferethviolence; for all the Prophets and the Lawprophrfted l<ntil [ohn ; and when the Apof\les were ready m_the room ofJuda<ro choofe a new Apoftle, it is faid that of thofe men which companicd AE!n. ,,,.; Wtth them a!! the time that the Lord [efuswent in and out amongft them, beginning from the . ' haptifm •f John, unto theday that he.,..,.., tak;n up, muft one be ordained to be awirnefs.And Peter preachmg tO Cornr!iu' and his friends, he tells them that the Word (or Gofpel) w.u Mls IO, 37; pub/ijhed
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