6o ACommentary upon theGo¡pee' Chap. t t. Verle4 t . 7ohn did no miracle ] Left he fhouldbe miílaken for theMeffias. But how got he then fo much credit ? by his morti- fied converfation efpecially. Holy and reverend is Gods Name, faith the Pfalmift : therefore reverend, becaufe holy. Holinefle hath honour in the confciences of the very worft. But all things that 7 9h f'akç ] The word works not fome- times, till many years after it hath been preached, as here : and as they fay ofthe Elephant, that fhe goes with young thirteen years, after thehath conceived. Vcrfe 42. eflndmany beleeved on him there] Place isno pre- jadice to the powerfull operationof the word,when by the Spirit it is made prolificall and generative. CHAP. XI. Verfe a. Bethany the town ofMary, &c, 1\10t the tower of Mary andMartha, as forre Montres have IN doted ; digni fan é ya i ad Grammatices elementa remittal's- Calledam. tur, faith an Interpreter. Bethany was a fmall towns or village nigh to 7eruflem, wheredwelt thefe three, Lazarus and his two filters, all in one houle ( though fratrum concordia rara) to whom our Saviourjoyns himfelf a fourth in their friendfhip, Behold how good and how pleafant it is for brethren to dwell together in Pfa1.133. T,;, unity. Surely there the Lord commands the bleffing, even life for evermore. Cant.:. Verfe 2. It Was that Mary Which anointed] This makes her name as an ointment pouredfirth. And the (pared for no colt, be- Plaut, ing of her minde it feems,that faid, Ego fi bonam famamfervafo, fat ero diver. Verle 3. Behold, heWhom thou lovefl istick] This was enough phi1.4.6. to fay to a loving Saviour. We need not be carefull in any thing, more then tomake our-wants known to God, and let him alone to helpe us, how, and when he pleafeth. So, to minde and move God may give Chrìft for the labouringChurch, it (hall fuffice to fay, She whom the dearly be- thou loveft is tick, is in ill cafe, &c. But Sr Auflin asketh, Si ama- loved of his tur, reomodó in rmatur ? Oh,well enough : Afflic`lions are Chritls foul into the love-tokens. As many as I leve faith he 1 rebuke, and cha en.See hand of her e- y ' ' nemies,ler.itr. my Treatife upon that Text. 7. Merle 4. But fir the glory of God] Happy Lazarus, though tick
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