·' Chap. I .Se6t.6 'Looking u?Jto 1efm. Booic IV· fees them not: how many glorious objeCts do the unregenerate \.. flight? they fee no beau_ty in JefusChrift, they_feele no fweet in ordinances, the Sabbath ts a trouble, and no delight to them, and whence all this? it is becaufe there is no light, no manifeftation ofChrift within them ; the Spirit ofCh!ift hath not witneiTed ,_ Chrift,hath not manifefted Chrift within their fouls,and therefore ' th~;y remaine in darkndfe. ___ .,........ ___ _...,.,. __ ...-.---~---- 1 SECT. 6. ofChrifts whipping the buyers, and fellm out of the Temple. , 397 5. concerning Chrifts whipping the buyers and fellers out of the Temple; we read in the Gofpel, that the 'fews Joh r :pajJeover being at hnnd., [efm went up to Jerufalem; Thither if n 1 ' 1 ' we follow him, the fir{l: place that we finde him in, is the Temple, whereby the occaGon of the national affembly was an opportune fcene for Chrifts tranfactions of his Fathers buGneffe. In that Temple Chrift firft efpies a-m1rt; there were divers Merchants; _ and exchangers of mony, that brought beafts thither to be fould for facrifice againft that great folemnity;. at the Gght ofwhich Jefui being moved with z.ea-le and indignation, he makes a whip of cords, and according to the cuftome of the Zealots of the· nation, he takes upon him the office of a private infli~ion of punifument, he drives them all out of the ren-1ple, he overthrows the accounting tables,and commands them that fold the doves to take them from thence, and being required to give aGgne of this fad:, he only, foretells the rc:furrecbon of his body after three dayes death, -expreffing it in the metaphor of the Temple which was never rightly underftood till it was accom~ plifbed. In~his heroical aet, we may fee how Chrift is carryed on witfi a zeale for Gqd, infomuch as that it brings to minde that faying . · of the Pfalmifr, the z.eale of thine houfe hath eaten me up; ameta- PJa!m 69. 9; phor taken from men that receive nour.ifhment, which after its feveral. concoCtions is affimulated into the nature of them that --- · gee 3. receive I
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