Bridges Lieutenant of the Tower mistrusting false play presently made haste to the Queen who renounced and reverst it And yet of her that was true that Josephus writeth of Alexandra Ipsa solem nomen regium ferebat caeterum omnem regni potestatem Pharisaei possidebant Verse 21. Sir we would see Jesus That is We would have private conference with him for they had seen him likely as he came riding into the City Our Saviour seems not to have yet admitted them because the time appointed for their calling was not yet come Every thing is beautifull in its time Eccles 3.11 but as fish and flesh so other things too are naught out of season Verse 23. That the Son of man should be glorified That is crucified but he looked thorow death and saw Heaven beyond it so must we then shall we say Surely the bitternesse of death is past This made Simeon sing out his soul Hilarion chide it out 1 Sam 15. Egredere ô anima mea Taylour fetch a frisk when he was come near the place where he was burned Bradford put off his cap and thanke God when the keepers wife brougth him word he was to be burned on the morrow Act. and Mon. Roper stand in the fire with his armes stretched out like a rood Hawkes clap his hands over his head three times when they were all on a light fire c. Verse 24. Ne Iesum quidem audias glorioâ—um nisi videris prius cruc fixum Luch epist ad Melanct Except a corne of wheat c. The Apostles thought Christ should have been presently glorified He lets them here know that he must first suffer before he enter into his glory bear the crosse before he wear the Crown passe the stroke of deaths flaming sword before he come into Paradise Verse 25. He that loveth his life As Christ loved not his life to the death for us so neither must we for him If every hair of my head were a man Act. and Mon. fol. 1438. I would suffer death in the opinion and faith that I am now in said John Ardely Martyr to Bonner God be praised said D. Taylour since my condemnation I was never afraid to die Gods will be done If I shrinke from Gods truth I am sure of another manner of death then had Judge Hales Ibid. 1382. c. Verse 26. If any man serve me let c. Art thou not glad to fare as Phocion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plut said he to one that was to die with him How much more to die with and for Christ Verse 27. Now is my soul troubled Christi perturbatio nos tranquillat infirmitas firmat saith Augustine Father save me from this hour As man he naturally feared and deprecated death such a dreadfull death especially as he was to suffer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greek Letany by thine unknown sufferings Good Lord deliver us Howbeit this was but with his sensitive will for his rationall will was ever the same with that of his Father Verse 28. Then came there a voice from Heaven God sometimes gives a sensible answer to the prayers of his people as they are praying or immediately after as Dan. 9.21 Acts 4 31. And Luther praying for the good successe of Gods cause in Germany came leaping out of his study with Vicimus vicimus in his mouth Verse 29. Fuerunt praeter Apostotos etiam aliqui minas sinistri interpretes Calvin That it thundered others said An Angel c. But the Apostles and some few others understood that it was neither thunder nor an Angel but God that spake In like sort nowadayes God speaks by his word but few hear him in it The word of God saith Forbes on Rev. 14. hath three degrees of operation in the hearts of men First it falleth to mens ears as the sound of many waters a confused found which commonly bringeth neither terrour nor joy but yet a wondring and acknowledgment of a strange force and more then humane power Mark 1.22 29. Acts 13.41 The second effect is the voice of thunder which brings not only wonder but fear These two may be in the reprobate as Faelix and the multitude in our text The third effect proper to the elect is the sound of harping whiles the word not only ravisheth with admiration and striketh the conscience with terrour but also filleth it with sweet peace and joy Verse 30. But for your sakes That ye might beleeve which if ye do not how shall ye escape that neglect so great salvation such an heavenly preacher See then that ye refuse not that ye shift not off him that speaks from heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 11.15 16. see that ye turn not from him whose voice once shook the earth but now heaven too c. Verse 31. The Prince of this world Gratian saith Ignatius his Concl. 43. The devil is called Prince of this world as a King at chesse or as the Cardinall of Ravenna only by derision That power he hath is meerly usurped and because the world will have it so which even lyeth down in that wicked one as St John hath it that is 1 Joh. 5.10 Quomodò Plautus In fermento tota jacet uxor under the power and vassallage of the Devil It is wholly set upon wickednesse as Aaron saith of the people Exod. 32.22 Verse 32. And if I be lifted up c. Pope Vrban the sixth said that these words Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars were abolished when Christ was lifted up from the earth and drew all things to him Iacob Rev. de vit Pont. pag. 213. that is as he expounds it when Christ ascended he drew to the Popes Empire all Kings and their Kingdomes making him King of Kings and Lord of Lords Is not this a sweet Interpreter Verse 33. Signifying what death Absolom Marte fureus pensitis aâ—â—bre obit c. Be lifted up betwixt heaven and earth as Absolom was who therein saith Gretser the Jesuite became a lively figure of Christ crucified Sed ô mirum delirum figurativae crucis fabrum Verse 34. Quilibet nos flrum de lege interrogatus faciltùs quam nomen suum respondet Jos We have heard out of the Law But had they never heard out of the Law that Christ must first suffer and then enter into his glory Isa 53 2. Dan. 9.26 There 's none of us Jews saith Josephus but being asked of any point of the Law can answer to it more readily then tell his own name Is it then ignorance or malice that they thus cavill and quarrell our Saviour Verse 35. Yet a little while is the light c. The day of grace which is very clear and bright is usually a short one Therefore break off your sinnes by repentance be abrupt in the work for life is short opportunities headlong and once past irrecoverable He is the wise man that prefers
a witnesse verbis non solum disertis sed et exertis He witnessed plainly and plentifully with a clear and punctuall pronunciation profession indigitation vers 26 29 32 36. That all men through him might beleeve Our Saviour expected that men should have come as far to hear his fore-runner and him as the Queen of Sheba came to heare Solomon Mat. 12.42 But the one thing necessary lyes alasse neglected Men will run to Hell as fast as they can and if God cannot catch them saith one they care not M. Steph. they will not come to Christ that they might live John 5.40 Verse 8. He was not that light As some sinisterly conceited which therefore occasioned that most necessary digression verse 6. to 10. and drew afterwards from the Baptist himselfe that most vehement profession verse 20. He confessed and denied not but confessed c. He knew well the danger of detracting in the least degree from Gods glory To looke upon it only and lust after it is to commit spirituall fornication with it in our hearts for it is Gods beloved Spouse and he being jealous cannot bear a corrivall Looke upon it therefore but with a single eye Matth. 6.22 and in all addresses to God Illi da claritatem tibi bumilitatem Aug. ad Bonifas epist 205. give the honour to him take humility to thy selfe as Austin well adviseth let that be thy motto that was his propter te Domine propter te Study Gods ends and we may have any thing of him as Moses Exod. 32. Verse 9. Which lighteth every man c. Or that comming into the world lighteth every man All with the light of reason Job 35.11 his own with a supernall and supernaturall light To know heavenly things is to ascend into Heaven Prov. 30.3 4. an affecting transforming light 2 Cor. 3.18 such as maketh a man to be a childe of light Ephes 5.8 partaker of the inberitance of the Saints in light Colos 1.2 Verse 10. He was in the world Here the Evangelist goes on where he left resumes and proceeds in his former argument verse 5. And the world was made by him This is the second time here set forth and re-inforced that we may the better observe and improve it See the like Revel 4.11 For thou hast created all things and by thee they are and were created without help tool or tiresomnesse Esay 40.28 That one word of his fiat made all 's shall we not admire his Architecture And the world knew him not Man is here called the World and Mark. 16.15 he is called every Creature This little World knew not Christ for God had hid him under the Carpenters Son his glory was inward his Kingdome came not by observation And because the world knew not him therefore it knoweth not us 1. John 3.1 Princes the saints are in all Lands Psal 45 16. but they lye obscured as did Melchisedech The Moone say Astronomers hath at all times as much light as in the full but oft a great part of the bright side is turned to heaven and a lesser part to the earth So it is with the Church Verse 11. He came unto his own His peculiar pickt people as touching the election beloved for the Fathers sake Ownnesse makes love though the more he loved the lesse he was beloved Rom. 11.28 This may be the best mans case 2 Cor 12.15 Learn we to deserve well of the most undeserving God shines upon the unthankfull also Luk. 6.35 Christ came to the stiffe-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Act. 7.51 His comfort was and may be ours Though Israel be not gathered yet I shal be glorious c. Isa 49.5 And his own received him not Nay they peremptorily and pertinaciously denied the holy One and the Just and desired a murtherer to be given unto them For the which their inexpiable guilt Acts 31 14. they are as it were cast out of the world by a common consent of Nations being a dejected and despised people Howbeit we long and looke daily for their conversion their resurrection Rom. 11.15 as Saint Paul calleth it And Augustine argueth out of the words Abba Father that there shall one day be a consent of Jewes and Gentiles in the worship of one true God There are that say out of Daniel 12 11. That this will fall out Anno Dom. 1650. Mr. Hout Mr. Case Fiat Fiat Verse 12. To them he gave power Or priviledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non. preferment prerogative royall heavenly honour as Nonâ—us here rendereth it and fitly For if sons then heirs Rom. 8.17 Hence that Ecce admirantis 1 John 3.1 and that Who am I 2 Sam. 7.18 with 14. Kings can make their first-born onely heires as Jehoshaphat 2 Chron. 21.3 But here all are heires of God and co-heires with Christ. Even to them that beleeve in his name Though with never so weake a faith such as may seeme to be rather unbeliefe then faith Marke 9.24 The least bud drawes sap from the Root as well as the greatest Branch The weakest hand may receive a ring Credo languidâ fide sed tamen fide said Dr. Cruciger on his death bed Selneccer paedag Christ A weak faith is a joynt possessour though no faith can be a joynt purchaser of this precious priviledge here specified Verse 13. But of God Whose sons therefore they are and so higher then the Kings of the earth Psal 89.27 as those that prolong the dayes of Christ upon earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. being begotten by the travell of his soule Isai 53.10 11. Hence faith is said to adopt us verse 12. in like sort as it justifies us viz. by vertue of its object Christ Filiabitur nomine ejus Trem. Hence Psal 72.17 there is said to be a succession of Christs name it is begotten as one generation is begotten of another This is true nobility where God is the top of the Kin Religion the root Verse 14. And the Word was made flesh Put himselfe into a lowsie leprous suite of ours Nazianz. to expiate our pride and robbery in reaching after the Deity and to heale us of our spirituall leprosie for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if he had not assumed our flesh he had not saved us Verse 15. John cryed saying He entred upon his calling in the yeare of Jubilee which was wont to be published by the voice of a Crier Rolloc in loc with the sound of a Trumpet And hitherto allude the Prophets and Evangelists that say he cried and call him the voice of a Crier c. Verse 16. Of his fulnesse Which is both repletive and diffusive not only of plenty but of bounty not a fulnesse of abundance only D. Preston but of redundance too In Christians is plenitudo vasis but in Christ Fontis these differ say the Schoolmen ut ignis et ignita Take a drop from the Ocean and it is so much the lesse but
89.19 that our faith and hope may be in God 1 Pet. 1.21 Verse 36. Hath eternall life 1. In promisso 2. In pretio 3. In primitiis He stands already on the Battlements of heaven he hath one foot in the porch of Paradise He that beleeveth not There is a two-fold un-beleefe one in the understanding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 8.10 and is opposed to faith the other in the will and lives and is opposed to obedience For cure of both God hath promised to write his Lawes both in the mindes of his people and in their hearts too The wrath of God abides upon him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in its mansion-place as upon its basis tanquam trabali cbavo fixa saith one there it nestles settles and never will away The unbeleever can neither avoid it nor abide it CHAP. IIII. Verse 1. Baptized more Disciples BAptizing was used by the Jewes before John or Christ took it up Broughton on Dan. 9. from which custome though brought in without Commandement our Saviour authorizeth a seal of entring into his Rest using the Jewes weaknesse as an allurement thither Verse 2. Jesus himselfe baptized not A sweet comfort that Christ is said to baptize those whom the Disciples baptized The Sacraments administred by Ministers are no lesse effectuall then if we had recived the same from Christs own hands Verse 3. He left Iudaea God must be trusted not tempted Verse 4. He must needs go Happy for them that they lay in our Saviours way Masim prasente Christâ— esse in inserno quòm absente eo in calo Luth in Gen. c. 3â— Gen. 48.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proporttoratè ad miseriam condelere Heb. 5.2 Heb. 13.3 to be lookt upon his feet drop fatnesse Luther had rather be with Christ in hell then in Heaven without him Verse 5. Iacob gave to his son Ioseph Having first wone it with his sword and his bowe that is with his prayer and supplication saith the Chaldee paraphrast which as Sauls sword and Ionathans bowe never return empty 2 Sam. 1.22 Verse 6. Iesus therefore being wearied And in that he himself had suffered he was the more able and apt to help this poor Samaritesse So the Apostle bids us pity those in adversity as being our selves in the body i. e. in the body of flesh and frailty subject to like misery He that hath had the tooth-ake will pity those that have it Non ignara mali c. We are orphans all said Queen Elizabeth Englands Elizab. p. 186. in her speech to the children of Christs-Hospitall let me enjoy your prayers and ye shall be sure of mine assistance Verse 7. A woman of Samaria A poor Tankerd-bearer such as Festus cals Canalicolas quòd circa canalem fori consisterent Berman de Originib because they were much about the Conduits Verse 9. Askest drink of me The Samaritans knew that they were slighted of the Jewes and tooke it ill Gens haec saith Giraldus Cambrensis of the Irish sicut natio quaevis barbara quanquam honorem nesciant honorari tamen supra modum affectant No man would be slighted how mean soever For the Iewes have no dealings c. Iosephus writeth that at Samaria was a Sanctuary opened by Sanballat for all Renegado Jewes c. The Jewes therefore hated the presence the fire Antiq. lib 11. cap. 7.8 the fashion the books of a Samaritan Neither was their any hatred lost on the Samaritans part for if he had but touched a Jew he would have thrown himself into the next water clothes and all Epiphan both of them equally sick of a noli me tangere Verse 10. The gift of God That is Christ himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called by St. Paul the Benefit 1 Tim. 6.2 Let him not be to us as Iethers sword to him which he drew not used not but as Goliahs sword to David none to that None but Christ none but Christ said that Martyr Verse 11. Sir thou hast no Bucket See how witty we are naturally with our armed dilemma's to reject grace offered and with both hands as it were to thrust away from us eternall life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts. 13.46 Verse 12. Our father Iacob Iosephus tels us that these Samaritans whiles the Jewes prospered would needs be their deare Cousens but when they were in adversity as under Antiochus they would utterly dis-own and dis-avow them They wrote to Antiochus because he tormented the Jewes to excuse themselves as none such and they stiled Antiochus The mighty God Oh basenesse Verse 13. Shall thirst again So shall all they quibus avaritiae aut ambitionis salsugo bibulam animam possidet He that seeks to satisfie his lusts goes about an endlesse businesse Give give is the Horsleeches language The worldling hath enough to sinke him not to satisfie him Verse 14. Shall never thirst His lips water not after homely provision that hath lately tasted of delicate sustenance Clitorio quicunque sitim de fonte levanet Ovid Metamor lib. 15. Vina fugit gaudetque meris abstemius undis Verse 15. Sir give me this water We would all have immortality but here on earth Some think she jeers our Saviour here who therefore in the next words arowseth her conscience Verse 16. Go call thy husband It was a great favour in Christ to receive that sinfull woman that washed his feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair and not to kick her out of his presence as the Pharisees expected How much greater is this to fetch in an idolatrous harlotry that fled from him to entertain her that lad rejected him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 1.14 c. Well might St. Paul say that the grace of our Lord is exceeding abundant or doth abound to flowing over as the sea easily over-floweth mole-hils Verse 17. I have no husband Lucretius ait quasdam mulieres effugere unius viri torum Sphinx Philos ut omnium fiant torus Iesuitae etiam sunt Connubisanctifugae clammeretricitegae Verse 18. He whom thou now hast c. Here he comes home to her conscience so must all that will do good on it striving not so much to please as to profit Bees are killed with honey but quickned with vineger The Eagle though she love her young ones dearly yet she pricketh and beateth them out of the nest so must Preachers drive men out of the nest of pleasure Iohn Speiser preacher at Ausborough in Germany did his work so well at first that the common strumpets left the Brothel-houses then tolerated and betook themselves to a better course Scultee Annal 118. Anno 1523. Yet afterwards he revolted to the Papists and miserably perished Verse 19. 1 Pet 3. Sir I perceive that thou art a Prophet To the hid mâ—â—n of the heart the plain song ever makes the best musick The Corinthian idiot convinced of all and having the secrets of his heart ript up by
times Verse 5. Thirty and eight years A long while to be in misery but what is this to eternity of extremity Wee need have some thing to minde us of God to bring us to Christ King Alvered pray'd God to send him alwaies some sicknesse whereby his body might be tamed and he the better disposed and affectioned to God-ward Verse 6. Lam. 3. And knew that he had been c. Christs eye affected his heart he could not but sympathize and succour this poor creeple out of his meer Philanthropy which moveth him still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew mercy according to the measure of our misery whereof he bears a part Heb. 5.2 Verse 7. I have no man c. He looked that Christ should have done him that good office and could not think of any other way of cure How easie is it with us to measure God by our â—â—odell to cast him into our mould to think that he must needâ— go our way to work Verse 8. Rise take up thy bed c. A servile work upon the Sabbath-day This our Saviour here commands not as a servile work but for confirmation of the truth of a miracle greatly tending to Gods glory like as another time he bad them give meat to the Damosell he had raised not for any necessity but to ensure the cure Verse 9. Dei dicere est efficere Andimmediately the man Christs words are operative together with his commands there goes forth a power as Luk. 5.17 So they were in the Creation Gen. 1. So they are still in regeneration Isa 59.21 Verse 10. It is the Sabbath it is not lawfull c. Verè sed non sincerè It more troubled them that Christ had healed him then that the Sabbath had been broken by him The poorer Swedes alwaies break the Sabbath saying that its only for Gentlemen to keep that day Verse 11. He that made me whole c. So it seems Christ had healed him in part on the inside also and given him a ready heart to obey though it were contra gentes as they say Verse 12. What man is he Not that made thee whole but that bad thee take up thy bed c. They dissembled the former and insisted only upon the later which shews the naughtinesse of their hearts Verse 13. Had convey'd himself away Lest by his present that work should be hinder'd True goodnesse is publike spirited though to private disadvantage and works for most part unobserved as the engine that doth all in great businesses is oft inward hidden not taken notice of Verse 14. Findeth him in the Temple Praising God likely for his unexpected recovery So Hezekiah the first work he did when off his sick-bed Isa 38.22 Behold thou art made whole c. Hence is 1. Magdeburgens praef ad cent 5. Commemoratio beneficij 2. Commonitio offâ—eij 3. Comminatio supplicij Ingentia beneficia ingentia flagitia ingentia supplicia Verse 15. Told the Jews Of a good intent surely to honour Christ however it were taken by the spitefull Jews Probi ex suà naturâ caeteros fingunt The Disciples could not imagine so ill of Judas as it proved Mary Magdalen thought the Gardener who ever he were should have known as much and loved Jesus as well as she did Verse 16. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus This he foreknew would follow and yet he forbare not In the discharge of our consciences rightly informed and regulated we must not stand to cast perils but doe our duties zealously what ever come of it This courage in Christians Heathens counted obstinacy but they knew not the power of â—he Spirit 〈◊〉 the privie armour of prooff that Saints have about their 〈◊〉 Verse 17. My Father worketh Yet 〈◊〉 labour or lassitude in conserving the whole creature This he doth every day and yet breaketh not the Sabbath Erge nec ego Verse 18. The Jews sought the more Persecution is as Calvin wrote to the French King Evangelij genius the bad genius the devil that dogs the Gospel Ecclesia harts crucis saith Luther Veritas odiurn parit Ter. Truth breeds hatred saith the Heathen as the fair Nymphes did the ill-favoured Fauns and Satyrs Verse 19. The Sonne can doe nothing c. He denies not himself to be the Son though they quarrell'd him but sweetly sets forth the doctrine of his Deity which they so much stomacked and stumbled at Verse 20. For the Father loveth the Son This noteth that eternall power of doing miracles that is in Christ As that which follows He will shew him greater works c. is to be referred to the declaration of that his power That ye may wonder Though ye beleeve not for such was the hardnesse of their hearts grown as neither ministery misery miracle nor mercy could possibly mollifie Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish Acts 13.41 Verse 21. Raiseth up the dead Bringing them from the jawes of death to the joyes of eternall life which none can do but God alone Verse 22. The Father judgeth no man viz. The Father alone but by the Son to whom all judicatory power is committed Verse 23. He that honoureth not the Son As Jews and Turks do not Nor Papists that upon the matter despoile him of his threefold office and so deny the Lord that bought them Verse 24. He that heareth my Word As death came into the world by the door of the ear so doth life eternall Isa 55.3 God was in the still voice and the Oracle bad Hear ye 〈◊〉 Mat. 17. Verse 25. The dead shall hear the voice The 〈…〉 shall beleeve the promises and shall live the life of 〈…〉 and of glory in Heaven Verse 26. So hath he given to the Son What wonder then if faith apprehending the infinite fountain of life derive thence some rivelet of 〈◊〉 and apply the same to us for spirituall quickning Verse 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza Because he is the Son of man Or as he is the Son of man By vertue of the hypâ—st arâ—â—â—ll union his manhood came as neer to God as could be He had the best naturall parts both of minde Isa 11.2 3. and body Psal 45.2 and the best supernaturall whereby he found favour also with God Luk. 2.52 for he had more neer familiarity with the Godhead then ever had any creature together with a partner-agency with his Godhead in the works of mediation 1 Tim. 2.5 In the state of exaltation the Manhood hath 1. excesse of glory 2 the grace of adoration together with the Godhead 3. Judiciary power as here and Act. 17.30 Verse 28. Marvell not at this And yet who can but marvell at this great mystery of godlinesse whereat Angels stand amazed yea whereat he himselfe wonders and therefore calls his own Name Wonderfull Isa 9.6 It is truly affirmed of Christ Mirari decet non rimari that he is created and uncreated without beginning and yet
cannot beleeve yea they cannot but resist the externall offers of Gods grace The Word Sacraments and all Gods common temporall favours are in respect of externall participation communicated to them by way of concomitancy only because they are intermixed with the elect Verse 27. My sheep hear my voice Buxtorf in his Teberias noteth that the seventh verse of the one and twentieth of Jeremy Constat ex 42 vocibus literis 160. consisteth of two and fourty words and of an hundred and sixty letters I am not at leisure to count the words and letters of this and the following verses But it is easie to observe in them those five linkes of that golden chain of Gods grace in our salvation My sheep there 's Election hear my voice there 's Vocation And I know them there 's Justification And they follow me there 's Sanctification and I give unto them eternall life there 's Glorification Pastor over spon let se abso lutè servatu rum nunquid libcrabitsidem c. D. Pridiaux de Persev sancto Verse 28. They shall never perish This is the good shepherds promise Is he now as good as his word if he suffer his sheep to wander and perish whom by promise he was tyed so to keep as that they should not wander as they are naturally apt to do to their destruction Verse 29. No man is able to pluck them Impostours seek to thrust us from God Deut. 13.5 and to drag disciples after them With such violence as if they would pluck them lim-meal as the word signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 20.30 so to deceive if it were possible the very elect Mat. 24.24 A thing is said to be possible vel respectu Dei vel respectu Rei True grace in it selfe considered is easily separable from him that hath it who left to himself also would soon lose it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—â—â— l. 5. But with respect to God by whose power the Saints are kept as in a strong guard or garison through faith unto salvation it is impossible that any of his should finally miscarry Verse 30. I and my father are one Both for nature or effence and for one consent both in willing and working Out of the harbour of Goodwins sands the Pilot cannot make forth they say without sinking in those sands unlesse he so steer his ship that he bring two steeples which stand off so even in his sight that they may seem to be but one So is it here Verse 31. Then the Jews took up stones This is the worlds wages to faithfull Ministers Many conceit discharge of their duty without persecution they would pull a rose without pricks Non decet ut sub capite spinis coronato vivant membra in delicys Zarch Verse 32. From my Father i.e. Ejus authoritate fretus Bez. All our works must be done in God and for God then they are of the right stamp and carry Heaven in them Heb. 6.9 Besides that they are unanswerable syllogismes invincible demonstrations to confute and convert even Pagans saith Chrysostom Verse 33. Christianu â— son uirem D js victi ram esse â—ra essiman Ierâ—ul But for blasphemy These were holy persecutours in pretence at least So Maximinian thought the blood of Christians would be an acceptable sacrifice to his gods So Francis the second of France and Philip the second of Spain held the same opinion of the Lutherans in their dominions Zeal without knowledge is like mettle in a blind horse Verse 34. In your law So he calls it to shew that there was no necessity on his part to prove what he delivered by any Scripture sith he was to be beleeved on his bare word but for their sakes only he did it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verse 35. Vnto whom the word of God came That have their authority from God whose substitutes and vicegerents Princes are and of whom they have their Patent With what face then can the Schoolmen defend Thomas in that Paradox Dominium Pralatio introducta sunt ex jure humano Aquin. 2.2 q. 10. ar 10. Verse 36. Hath sanctified and sent Sanctified that is Anointed and that in both his natures as whole Christ For his anointing imported 1. His consecration or ordination to the office of a Mediatour and so the God-head also was anointed 2. Qualification or effusion of fullnesse of graces as the holy oyl was compounded of divers spices so the man-hood and that without measure as far as a finite nature was capable of Verse 37. If I do not the works of my father beleeve me not Thus said Christ but so saith not Christs Vicar as the Pope will needlesly be called His Placite must be obeyed not examined and though by his evil example he draw thousands to hell none must mute or say so much as what doest thou Verse 38. But if I do though ye c. q. d. Stumble not at the meannesse of my person condition followers c. When it was sometime disputed among the Romanes in the Councell using to deifie great men whether Christ having done many wounderfull works should be received into the number of the Gods it was at length concluded saith the Historian quod non deberet recipi inter Deos pro eo quod non haberet cultores propter hoc quod paupertatem praedicaret eligeret quam mundus contemnit Verse 39. Therefore they sought again to take him They could not answer his arguments they turn them therefore to a course of violence wherein they doubted not but to be too hard for him Thus they dealt with Ridley and Latimer at Oxford thus with other Martyrs who yet overcame them by the blood of the Lamb yea were more then conquerours Rom. 8. A fagot will make you recant saith the Bishop to Mr Hawkes Martyr No Act. and Mon. no said he a point for your fagot you shall do no more and your Master to help you then God permits you In the year 1166. the Synod at Oxford burned in the foreheads Alsted Chronol pag. 357. and afterwards banished out of the realme thirty Dutch doctours that taught here the right use of Wedlock and the Sacraments Verse 40. And went again beyond Jordan The further from Jerusalem the safer Jerusalem was then as Rome is now the Saints slaughter-house Roma radix omnium malorum Into the place where John first baptized As well for his own comfort for there he had heard at first from Heaven This is my beloved Sonne c. as for the peoples conversion and confirmation who there called to minde Johns testimony of Jesus and beleeved Verse 41. John did no miracle Lest he should be mistaken for the Messias But how got he then so much credit by his mortified conversation especially Holy and reverend is Gods Name saith the Psalmist therefore reverend because holy Holinesse hath honour in the consciences of the very worst But all things that John spake