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A30303	Expository notes with practical observations on the Four Holy Evangelists, viz., St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John wherein the sacred text is at large recited ... and the instructive example of the holy Jesus to our imitation recommended ; designed for the instruction of private families ... / by William Burkitt.	Burkitt, William, 1650-1703.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5736; ESTC R29600	900,471	338

Member or as the Paper in the Printing-Press receives Letter for Letter and the Wax under the Seal receives print for print So in the Work of Regeneration whatever Grace is in Christ there is the like for Kind instampt upon the Christian's Soul All the Members of Christ being made plentiful Partakers of his Spiritual Endowments Learn hence That all fulness of Grace by way of Supply for Believers is treasured up in Christ and communicated by him as their Wants and Necessities do require His Fulness is inexhaustible it can never be drawn low much less drawn dry Of his Fulness do we receive Grace for Grace that is Grace freely Grace plentifully God grant that none of us may receive the Grace of Christ in vain 3. John prefers Christ before Moses whom the Jews doated so much upon The Law was given by Moses not as the Author but as the Dispenser of it Moses was God's Minister by whom the Law which reveals Wrath was given to the Jews but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ Grace in Opposition to the Condemnatory Curse and Sentence of the Law and Truth in Opposition to the Types Shadows and Ceremonies of the Legal Administration Learn hence That all Grace for Remission of Sin and for Performance of Duty is given from Christ the Fountain of Grace Grace came by Jesus Christ The Grace of Pardon and Reconciliation the Grace of Holiness and Sanctification the Grace of Love and Adoption even all that Grace that fits us for Service here and Glory hereafter Christ is both the Dispenser and the Author of it Grace came by Jesus Christ Again 4. John the Baptist here v. 18. doth not only prefer Christ before himself before Moses before all Believers but even before all Persons whatsoever in Point of Knowing and Revealing the Mind of God No Man hath seen God at any time that is no meer Man hath ever seen God in his Essence whilst he was in this mortal State Here God's Invisibility is asserted next Christ's Intimacy with the Father is declared The only begotten Son that is in the Bosom of the Father This Expression implies three Things 1. Unity of Natures the Bosom is the Child's Place who is part of our selves and of the same Nature with our selves 2. Dearness of Affection None lye in the Bosom but the Person that is very dear to us A Bosom Friend is the dearest of Friends 3. It implies Communication of Secrets Christ's lying in his Fathers Bosom intimates his being conscious to all his Father's Secrets to know all his Counsels and to understand his whole Will and Pleasure Now as Christ's lying in the Father's Bosom implies Unity of Nature it teacheth us to give the same Worship to Christ which we give to God the Father because he is of the same Nature with the Father as it implies Dearness of Affection betwixt the Father and the Son it teaches us to place our chief Love upon Christ the Son because God the Father doth so He who is the Son of God's Love should be the Object of our Love as God hath a Bosom for Christ so should we have also the noblest Object challenges the highest Affection Again as Christ's lying in the Father's Bosom implies the Knowledge of his Mind and Will it teaches us to apply our selves to Christ to his Word and Spirit for Illumination Whither should we go for Instruction but to this Great Prophet for Direction but to this wonderful Counsellor We can never be made wise unto Salvation if Christ the Wisdom of the Father doth not make us so ¶ 19 And this is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him Who art thou 20 And he confessed and denied not but confessed I am not the Christ 21 And they asked him What then Art thou Elias And he saith I am not Art thou that prophet And he answered No 22 Then said they unto him Who art thou that we may give an answer to them that sent us What sayest thou of thy self 23 He said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness Make straight the way of the Lord as said the prophet Esaias 24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees 25 And they asked him and said unto him Why baptizest thou then if thou be not that Christ nor Elias neither that prophet 26 John answered them saying I baptize with water but there standeth one among you whom ye know not 27 He it is who coming after me is preferred before me whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to unloose 28 These things were done in Beth-abara beyond Jordan where John was baptizing In these Verses we have a second Testimony which John the Baptist gave of our Saviour Jesus Christ The Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem saying Who art thou That is the Sanhedrim or Great Council at Jerusalem to whom it belonged to judge who were True Prophets sent Messengers to the Baptist to know whether he was the Messias or not John refuses to take this Honour to himself but tells them plainly He was his Harbinger and Forerunner and that the Messias himself was just at hand From hence Note how very cautious and exceeding careful this Messenger of Christ was and all the Ministers of Christ ought to be that they do not assume or arrogate to themselves any part of that Honour which is due to Christ but set the Crown of Praise upon Christ's own Head acknowledging him to be All in All 1 Cor. 3.5 Who then is Paul and who is Apollo but Ministers by whom ye believed Observe farther in this Testimony of John the Baptist these two Things 1. A Negative Declaration who he was not I am not says he the Messiah whom you look for nor Elias nor that Prophet you expect not Elias that is in your Sense not Elias the Tishbite not Elias for identity of Person but Elias for Similitude of Gifts Office and Calling John came though not in the Person yet in the Power and Spirit of Elias He farther denies that he was That Prophet that Prophet which Moses spake of Deut. 18.15 nor any of the old Prophets risen from the dead nay strictly speaking he was not any Prophet at all but more than a Prophet The Old Testament Prophets prophesied of Christ to come but John pointed at shewed and declared a Christ already come and in this Sense he was no meer Prophet but more than a Prophet 2. We have here the Baptist's positive Affirmation who he was namely Christ's Herauld in the Wilderness his Usher his Fore-runner to prepare the People for the receiving of the Messias and to make them ready for the Entertaining of the Gospel by preaching the Doctrine of Repentance to them From hence Learn That the preaching of the Doctrine of Repentance is indispensably necessary in order to the preparing of the Hearts of Sinners for the receiving of Jesus Christ Observe lastly The Great Exemplary

the head of the corner this is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder These Words are taken out of the 118th Psalm which the Jews understood to be a Prophecy of the Messiah and accordingly Christ applies them to himself The Church is the Building intended Christ himself the Stone rejected The Rejecters or the Builders Rejecting were the Heads of the Jewish Church that is the chief Priests and Pharisees God the great Master-Builder of his Church takes this precious Foundation Stone out of the Rubbish and sets it in the Head of the Corner Nevertheless there are some who stumble at this Stone Some thro' Ignorance others thro' Malice stumble at his Person at his Doctrine at his Institutions These shall be broken in pieces But on whomsoever this Stone shall fall it will grinde them to Powder That is Christ himself will fall as a burthensome Stone upon all those that knowingly and maliciously oppose him and particularly upon the Jews who not only rejected him but persecuted and destroyed him Thus Christ tells the chief Priests and Pharisees their own particular Doom and also declares what will be the fatal Issue of all that Opposition which is made against himself and his Church It will terminate in their inevitable and irreparable Destruction Whosoever shall fall on this Stone shall be broken and on whomsoever it shall fall it will grinde them to Powder 45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables they perceived that he spake of them 46 But when they sought to lay hands on him they feared the multitude because they took him for a prophet When the chief Priests came to understand that these Parables were all applied to them that they were the Murtherers of the King's Son That they were the Builders that rejected the chief Corner-stone they are enraged at the close Application made to themselves and had not Fear restrain'd them would have laid violent Hands upon him Learn thence That nothing doth more provoke and exasperate unsound Hypocrites than the particular Application and close coming home of the Word of God unto their Hearts and Consciences So long as the Truths of God are generally delivered Sinners are easie looking upon themselves as unconcern'd but when the Word of God comes close to them and says Thou art the Man This is thy Wickedness They are angry at the Message and rage at the Messenger CHAP. XXII 1 AND Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables and said 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his Son 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding and they would not come 4 Again he sent forth other servants saying Tell them which are bidden Behold I have prepared my dinner my oxen and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready come unto the marriage 5 But they made light of it and went their ways one to his farm another to his merchandise 6 And the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully and slew them 7 But when the king heard thereof he was wroth and he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burnt up their city 8 Then saith he to his servants The wedding is ready but they which were bidden were not worthy 9 Go ye therefore into the high ways and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage 10 So those servants went out into the high ways and gathered together all as many as they found both bad and good and the wedding was furnished with guests 11 And when the king came in to see the guests he saw there a man which had not a wedding garment 12 And he saith unto him Friend how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment and he was speechless 13 Then said the king to the servants Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into utter darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth The Design and Scope of this Parable of the Marriage-Supper is to set forth that Gracious Offer of Mercy and Salvation which was made by God in and thro' the preaching of the Gospel to the Church of the Jews The Gospel is here compared to a Feast because in a Feast there is Plenty Variety and Dainties Also to a Marriage-Feast being full of Joy Delight and Pleasure And to a Marriage Feast made by a King as being full of State Magnificence and Grandeur To this Marriage-Feast or Gospel-Supper Almighty God invited the Church of the Jews and the Servants sent forth to invite them were the Prophets and Apostles in general and John the Baptist in particular whom they entreated spitefully and slew The making light of the Invitation signifies the Generality of the Jews Refusal and careless Contempt of the Offers of Grace in the Gospel By the Armies which God sent forth to destroy those Murderers are meant the Roman Soldiers who spoiled and laid waste the City of Jerusalem and were the severe Executioners of God's Wrath and Judgment upon the wicked Jews The High Ways signifie the despised Gentiles who upon the Jews Refusal were invited to this Supper and prevailed with to come in The King 's coming in to see his Guests denotes that Inspection which Christ makes into his Church in the times of the Gospel By that Man without the Wedding-Garment understand such as are destitute of true Grace and real Holiness both in Heart and Life in the Examination of him Christ says Friend how camest thou in hither Not Friends why came you along with him Teaching us That if unholy Persons will press in to the Lord's Supper the Sin is theirs but if we come not because they will come the Sin is ours The Presence of an unholy Person at the Lord's Table ought not to discourage us from our Duty or cause us to turn our Back upon that Ordinance The Command to bind the unqualified Person Hand and Foot and to cast him into utter Darkness plainly intimates that the Condition of such Persons as live under the Light and enjoy the Liberty of the Gospel but walk not answerably to their Profession is deplorably sad and doleful They do not only incur Damnation but no Damnation like it Bind him Hand and Foot and cast him into utter Darkness From the whole Note 1. That the Gospel for its Freeness and Fulness for its Varieties and Delicacies is like a Marriage-Supper 2. That Gospel Invitations are mightily disesteem'd 3. That the Preference which the World has in Men's Esteem is the great cause of the Gospel's Contempt They went one to his Farm and the other to his Merchandise 4. That such as are Careless in the Day of Grace shall undoubtedly be Speechless in the Day of Judgment 5. That Christ takes a more particular Notice

bread with me hath lift up his heel against me If the chusing spoken of here be understood of Eternal Election a chusing to everlasting Life then it affords a strong Argument to prove Christ to be God Thus he that is the Author of Eternal Election is God but Christ is such I know whom I have chosen Consider Christ as God so we are chosen by him consider him as Mediatour and so we are chosen in him If the chusing here be meant of chusing to the work of the Apostleship then our Saviour tells his Disciples that it need not seem strange to them that he chose one to be an Apostle whom he knew would prove a Traitour for hereby that Scripture Prophesie Ps 41.9 would be fulfilled He that eateth Bread with me hath lift up the heel against me which tho' it was literally spoken of Achitophel's Treachery against David yet was it Prophetically spoken of Judas his Treason against Christ and the Expression of lifting up the heel is Metaphorical taken from a fed Beast that Kicks against his Master Learn hence That Christ did and his followers do daily suffer not only from open Enemies but from bosom and familiar Friends Lord How many are there in the World who by profession lift up their Hand unto thee who yet by Treason and Rebellion lift up their Heel against thee 19 Now I tell you before it come that when it is come to pass ye may believe that I am he Here another Argument occurs to prove the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour from his fore knowledge of Judas his Treason the person who the Time when and the Place where were all known to Christ I tell you before it come to pass The Argument lies thus He that foresaw the future Actions of Men and infallibly foreknew the future Events and Issues of things is certainly God But Christ did this therefore he is really God And he tells us here that for this very Reason he foretold now the Treason of Judas Now I tell you before that when it is come to pass ye may believe that I am He. What He doth he mean What He could foretel so many things to come which did not depend upon necessary but contingent causes onely This He was not a meer Man surely for he knows not what shall be on the morrow but must be real God because he knew all things not by Revelation as the Prophets knew things to come but by immediate inspection and simple intuition so that we may say with Peter Lord Thou knowest all things and because thou knowest all things thou art God 20 Verily verily I say unto you He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me Lest his Apostles should think that for the Treachery of one of them they shoul all become odious and abominable to the whole World our Saviour encourages them with this promise and assurance that there should be those that would receive them and he would take it as kindly as if they received himself He that receiveth you receiveth me Learn hence That it is a sweet encouragement to the Ministers of Christ unto the faithful discharge of their Duty that Christ and the Father account that the respect paid to the Ministers of the Gospel is paid to themselves and on the contrary that all the contempt cast upon them reflects upon themselves He that receiveth you receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me 21 When Jesus had thus said he was troubled in spirit and testified and said Verily verily I say unto you that one of you shall betray me 22 Then the disciples looked one on another doubting of whom he spake Oh what an astonishing word was this one shall betray me one of my Disciples shall betray me yea one of you my Disciples and Apostles shall do it well might they look one upon another with sorrow and amazement to hear that their Master should die that he should die by Treason and that the Traitours should be one of themselves yet do not they censure one another but suspect themselves saying Master is it I not Master is it Judas Learn hence 1. That it is possible for secret wickedness to lurk yea for the greatest villany to lodge in the hearts of Professors in whose Conversation appeareth nothing that may give a just suspicion to others Learn 2. That it is both the duty and property of the Disciples of Christ to have so much Candour and Brotherly Love as not rashly to censure and judge one another but to hope the best of others and to fear the worst of themselves 23 Now there was leaning on Jesus bosom one of his disciples whom Jesus loved 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake 25 He then lying on Jesus breast saith unto him Lord who is it 26 Jesus answered He it is to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped it And when he had dipped the sop he gave it to Judas Iscariot the son of Simon 27 And after the sop Satan entred into him Then said Jesus unto him That thou doest do quickly 28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him 29 For some of them thought because Judas had the bag that Jesus had said unto him Buy those things that we have need of against the feast or that he should give something to the poor 30 He then having received the sop went immediately out and it was night Observe here 1. The Character given of St. John the beloved Disciple he leaned on Christ's Bosom that is he had most intimate converse with Christ one whom Christ treated with greater freedom and familiarity than the rest and one that knew more of his Heart than most of his Disciples We commonly call a very near Friend a Bosom Friend Learn That altho' Christ had an endeared love for all his Disciples and followers yet there were degrees in Christ's own love and he had a familiarity with some Disciples beyond others whilest he was here upon Earth even as now in Heaven tho' his Heart be towards all his Children here on Earth yet he is pleased to let out more kind Manifestations of himself and more sensible Evidences of his love towards some than towards others John was the Disciple that lay in Jesus his Bosom Observe 2. The way which our Saviour took to discover Judas to the rest of his Disciples not by naming of him but by giving him a Sop partly because he would not give Judas any provocation by mentioning of his Name and partly because this sign of eating the Sop was most agreeable to the Prophetical Prediction Ps 41.9 Mine own familiar friend who did eat of my Bread hath lift up the heel against me Observe 3. The time when Judas received the Sop and the consequent that followed upon his receiving of it it was at