B~k.IV. LoQking unto 1t{us. Chap. r. Seer. 7 -------~~~~--------------------~--~ what they faw, and what they heard they could not but b~ dif· 'I ~ark6'.~ cracted, and amazed. But why did ye not (0 yc Jewifh teachers) remember now theStar, and the Sages, and the Angels, and . thefhep.herds ?. why did ye not now bethink your fdves of Herod, an<;l of hts enqmry , and ofyour anfwer, that in Bethlehem of {u-. dea {hrift fhould be born ? you cited the Prophets, aBd why did you not mind that prophefie now, that,unto us a child is bm1,r.nd unto HS ,1 Son is givrn, and his Name fha!l be called Wonderful, CoHnfe!lour, the· mighty God, the everlafting Father, the Prince of peace ? fruitlelfe is the wonder that endeth not in faith . no light is fufficient, where the eyes are held thruugh unbelief,' and prejudice. 6. After this,from twelve to the thirtieth year o.fhis age we read nothing ol the r,Ct; of Chrift , but that he went duwn with hi1 parents unto 1'\(fl'<- •> rrtf,,,md w<ts [ubj r[f t o them; as he went up to Jerttf.drm to worfhip God,and in fome fort to fhe~ himfelfGod, fo now he goe3 dawn toN a~areth to atrend h1s p-.rticuiar calling; This is the meaning of rhofe words, and he was fuhj efl to them ;' Chrifts fubjection ro his parents extcndsco the profeffion, ·and nwdfe of his life ; cenainly Chntl w~s tJOt all that time from_ rwdve to thirty years,idle ,as he ~~ai we! educated by his parents,fo ~fh.is reputed father he learnt to be a Carpenter ; this J taJ..e it is plain in thefe words, is not t hiJ the Carpenter .rhe S on ~J M trry? it aepearJ• (fay our Englifh Annotations) tht~~ t ch,ift txercifed that trade in his yr unger yeares J know Matthew renders it rhus , i1 nonhi.s.the CArpenters fomae? is not hiJ mother ctll!d Ultlary ? b:ut M11;·k_ thus, is nQt this the CarperJter, &c. Some comment thus, that while {o(tph was ali\·e Chnft wrotJght with him iu the ~rade ofaCarpenter , and when {ofeph died, which happened be.. fore the manifeRation-ofJefus unto Ifr,ul, he wrought alone • and was no more caJI:edtheCarpentersSon; , but the Carpenter bimfelf: here's cpmfort for men oft he mea nell: callings, as bufbandry was.honoured- in the perf on and condition of d1e firft Adam before his fall ; fo now the ha.ndycraft. 0 the poverty , humilry, feverity of{e(iu ' it appears at this time efpecially in bis labouring·, working , hewing· of wood ,or the like ; here's a fh.arp reproof to all thofe that fpend their time in idlenelfe; Qr without a partict:tlar calling ; •bat: !<ike no paines at all, [)ID!dfe. .iq purfuit after vain , foolifh , tuperfluous , ~nful dungs ;
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