Chap.1. for as itwas a certain and received truth,among that peo- ple, that McJ.sh the Prince, Dan.9.26. fhould (portly comeOf that family. And this was that that heldup the fainting hearts of thegoodpeople ofthofe fad times, (when prophecie failed them, and profperity too,) they lookedfor the Defireof Nations, for theConfolation of Ifrael, having little elfe to releive them, for the externall means : Unleffe it were that '7lp 11,Z, that heard in the Temple, they tell us of, which Served them for an oracle And the miracle of the pool of Bethefda granted by God to firengthen them in the true wór(hip ofGod, under the perfecution of Antioch/4J and other tyrants, till thedates of 2ohn Baptifi, and the Lord Chrift. Verte i6. And laceb begat lefp,h,] .Whofe genealogie is here recorded,and not Marier : it being not the cuttom ,of that people *hen, toSet forth the genealogiesof women. As at this day, the Btunr voyage .Jews have anover -bate conceit ofthat fex ; fayingthat they have into :he Ye not fo divine a foul as men, but are oft lower crea.tion, &c. and vans, pair,. therefore they Puffer them not to enter the Synagogue,- but appoint them agallery without. The hufband ofMary, of Vehom'W.e.e born Iefue ] This is the fun-Hued all thegood news in theworld, inch as furpaflech thejoy ofconqueti,or of harveti, ./A9 3,,5,6. and thould therefore fwal- lowup all difcontents whattoever. who ucalled Chrift] The name of jefus is reel in ore, melds in Bern, Aure, jubilusn in cord' : as it was CO St Paul, who therefore names it nine feverall times in the ten fitti vertes of his finti Epiftle to the Corinthians, as loth to comeoff it. Yet is not the nameje- .fus alone half fo fweet,, as when Chrift isadded to it,as here. For lefiu Clerift betokeneth fuch a Saviour as is anointed and ap- pointed thereunto by God, confecrated to the office, according to his Godhead, and qualified for it,, according to his manhood : In both natures a Saviour, -and :that ex prof.[fo (asyou would fay ) andby content of all three perfons : The Son beinganointed. by the Father, with the Holy Ghofi : Andas Sample's whenclotbed.with . the fpirir, Saved the peóple : foChrift much more. Verfe 17. So all thegfneratf6ns,&c. are faurteengreneratiensJ Tefíärad6, For memory fake, Mar thetn fummeth _up the genealogyof our Sa- cades, viour into. three fourteens : likeas fome of the Ptalms.are,. for the fame reafòn, let down in order of theAlphabet. Difcere volait fl q &ecrates,nihil aliad efequ. -1t racordari.,faith.Tttlly.,Magis auteur Chri- acco rding to St M A T r H r v v. II
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