---------· - -- -------------------- Leo king ttn! o 7 ej?u. Book. fV. 4 57 ~nFe ofChrift is that whereby he conti~uc~ in all tiJ~ng~.~·itteJ~--- ~ ln 'the book of the law to do them: C.~bkrve, Chrifts frJc was a vijible comment .try on qods law. For proo,fe, thin/{ ;zN that Imn come t-odrftroy the l"w, or the ProphetJ (fatth Clmft) bm to (Hiji!l ,0 . them, And thcFathtr hathnotleftmeahne (faithChriH)for J 1' ' 1 3tth 8·5· 17 • . ' h ,/. l. l-l Cl ' 11. • o In . 29· ~0 alwaies thofe thillgs t at plea1emm. ence 1rta tn Snipt1.1re Act 3 , 1'-t· tscalled holy andJitft, and the holy one, Ad.2 . 27. themojtboly Dan. 9· 24. by his adual holinefs Chrift fulfilled in ad every branch of the law ofGod· he walked in all the commandments of God. he performed p;rfedly both il'l thought, word and deed wh~tfoever the law of the Lord required . _,_ I do not,' cannot limit this obedience ofChrift to this laft yeare of his miniftry, for his whole life was~ perpetual courfe of obed~ence, he was o- , bedientunto death,fatth the Apoille P.''X.f1 .Jrt.v<t.Tg even unrill.hu Tb"l 8 death; and yet becaufe we read moft of his holy adings this 1 .:. • year~, and that this was the yeare wherein both his active .and paffi ve obedience did moft eminently fhine, and break forth, the ' yeare wherein he drew up all the difperfionsof h;sprecepts, and cafl them into aetions, as int0 fummes total, therefore now I handle it , and I fhall make it out by the paffages following,only in thts one yeare. As-- • I. Now he difcovered his charity in feeding the hungry, as at once five thoufand men with five loaves and two fifhes, 'fch. 6. 9, J 1 6 1 1 • d h · c h r d . h r. o 1. ·9> o, r, ro, I r. an at anot er ttme 1oure t olllan men wtt 1eaven , loaves and a few fmall fifhes, Mar,. r 5. 32. Mmh. 1 r. 3 ~~ 2. Now he difcovered his felfe-denyal, and contempt of the · world, in flying the offers of aKingdome; when the people were convinc't that he was the Meffiah from that 111iracle of feeding five thoufand men with five loaves, prefently they would needs make him aKing; but he that left his Fathers Kingdome for liS, • he fled from theofferrs ofacrown and Kingdome from them, a$ from an enemy; rvhm 'fefus perceived that they would come and utks him by frr,-ce, to PMks him a King, he departed 11gaine into a • mountaine himfllfe a/one, . · . Joi:J. 6. I f• Now he difcovered his mercy, in healing the womans daughter that h.ad an unc\eane fpirit; the woman was aGreek, a Syrophenician by nr1tiun; and in tha~ refped Chrift called her a dag , and M!r,7, ~6, t7t yet Chri{r gave her the defire of her foul; 0 the rich mercy of Chrift, that he would admit a dog to his Kingdome! 0 grace ! Nnn 0
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