Ch. z . The Parable St. Mark. of thefouler. Ch: 4.. gainfl himfelf, and be divided, he great comfortto every true Chriffian, that thej cannot Hand, but hath an end. are dearer to Chri(r, than Mother, Brother, or 2 No man can enter into a ilron Sifter, as loch, would have been, had they man's houle, and fpoil his goods, been holy) except he will firfe bind the Prong man, and then he will fpoil his honk. CHAP. IV. 27, &e, It is not by the Devil's own confent that he is caft out, but by overcoming him. 38. Verily I fay unto you, All fins (hall be forgiven unto therfons ofmen, and blafphemies wherewith foever they (hall blafpheme : 29. But he that (hall blafpheme againl the holy Ghofi, bath never forgive- nefs, but is in danger of eternal dam- natiòn: 3o. Becaufe they Paid, He hash an unclean fpirit 23, etc. All other fin and blafphemy is cu- rable and pardonable: But ifmen will take all the miracles, gifts, and graces of the holy Ghoft, by which I and my fervants prove me to be lent from God, to be all done by the Devil to deceive them : there is no greater e- vidence nfGod's atteftation left to convince them s and therefore their blafphemous unbe- lief is uncutable and unpardonable. 3 r. There came thenhis brethren T. A Nd he began again to teach by the lea -fide : and there was gathered unto him a great mill.- titude, fo that he entred into a (hip, and fat in the fea, and the whole multitude was by the fea, on the land. a. And he taught themma- ny things by parables, and Paid un- to them in his doarine, 3. Hear- ken, Behold, there went out a fow- er to low : 4. And it came to pats as he fowed, fòme fell by the way- fide, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. ç. And fome fell on flony ground,, where it had not much earth, and immediately it (prang up, becaufe it had no depth ofearth. 6. But when the fun was and his mother, and Handing with- it shad noaroot, it ewithered' away. out, fent unto him, calling him. . 32. And the multitude fat about and thedthortns grew up, and him, and they laid unto him, Be- ked ir, and it yielded no fruit. 8. hold thy mother and thy brethren Andother fell on good ground, and without leek for thee. 33. And he did yield fruit that fprang up and anfwered them, Paying, Who is my increafed, and brought forth force mother, or my brethren , 34. And thirty, and fòme fixty, and force he looked round about on them an hundred. which fat about him, and faid, Be- 9. And ears laid unto Il hold my mother and my brethren, them, He that hath to hear, let 3 5 For whofoever íhall do the will him !near. of God, the fame is my brother, See Paraphrafe r ;. and my filler, and mother. I a And when he was alone; they s t, 6T, ifyou would know me, you mnft that wereabout him with the twelve, look b.yondmy Belly Kindred and Relati asked of him the parable. ons : As I am of an higber Offspring, fo I t o. He is laid to be alone, when the multi- have higher works to do, than to pleafe natu- tude were gone. ral Kindred. (I draw you not from due re- r r. And he latid unto them, Unto gard to your natural kindred : God command- you it is given to ltnow the m y fier ethyou to honour Parents. But) Spiritual Re- lations y to me as (ach, are more amiable and of the kingdom of God : but unto happy than racer natural Relations as filch.' them that are without , all there It isa more amiable thing to be a Lover of things are done in parables : r a. God, and to obey him, than to be my Mo- That feeing they may fee, and not ther, Sifter ,or Brother: Ifthey had no better, they would perüh for ever. But all that lave perceive , and bearing they may God and obey him, (hail be laved. (This is hear, and not underftand , left at
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