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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

Aaron and her name was Elizabeth In this and the following Verses the Holy Ghost gives us a Description of John the Baptist who was the Harbinger and Fore-runner of our Saviour Christ he is described first by his Parentage being the Son of Zacharias and Elizabeth This Zacharias was a Priest who had a Course in the Temple or a right to officiate there when it came to his turn for we read in 1 Chron. 24.10 That David appointed the Priests the Sons of Aaron to minister by Turns and divided them into four and Twenty Courses Every one Ministring in the Temple by their Weeks Here Note That Zacharias a Priest and attending the Service of the Temple was a married Person having one of the Daughters of Aaron to Wife according to the command of God Levit. 21.14 where the Priest is required to marry one of his own Tribe Learn hence That neither the Priests under the Law did nor the Ministers of Christ under the Gospel ought to abhor the Marriage-Bed nor judge themselves too pure for an Institution of their Maker The Doctrine of the Church of Rome which forbiddeth to marry St. Paul calls a Doctrine of Devils 6 And they were both righteous before God walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless Obs here 1. The sweet harmony of this Religious Couple in the ways of God They both walked in the commandments of God It is an happy match when Husband and Wife are one not only in themselves but in the Lord. Obs 2. the Universality of their Holiness and Obedience they walked not in some but in all the Ordinances and Commandments of the Lord. Such as will approve themselves to be sincerely religious must make Conscience of every known Duty and endeavour to obey every Precept and Command of God Obs 3. The high Commendation which the Holy Spirit of God gives of this their Religious Course of Holiness and Obedience They are pronounced Blameless He that liveth without gross Sin in a Gospel Sense liveth blameless and without Sin To live without gross Sin is our Holiness on Earth to be without any sin will be our Happiness in Heaven Many sins may be in him that has true Grace but he that has Truth of Grace cannot allow himself in any Sin Such are the Condescensions of the Covenant of Grace that sincere Obedience is called Perfection Truth of Grace is our perfection on Earth but in Heaven we shall have Perfection as well as Truth Obs Lastly a pattern for their imitation who wait at God's Altar and are imployed in and about Holy Things such ought all the Ministers of the Gospel and their Wives to be what Zachary and Elizabeth are here said to be namely Blameless that is very innocent and inoffensive in their daily Conversation 7 And they had no child because that Elizabeth was barren and they both were now well stricken in years Observe here 1. This Holy pair Zachary and Elizabeth were fruitful in Holy Obedience but Barren in Children a Fruitful Soul and a Barren Womb are Consistent and do oft-times meet together This Religious Couple made no less progress in Virtue then in Age and yet their Virtue could not make their Age Fruitful Obs 2. Elizabeth was barren in the Flower of her Age but much more so in old Age. Here was a double obstacle and consequently a double instance of Divine Power in the Birth of John the Baptist shewing him to be a Prophet very extraordinary and miraculously sent by God Obs 3. That when Almighty God in old Times did long delay to give in the Blessing of Children to Holy Women he rewarded their Expectation with the Birth of some Eminent and Extraordinary Person Thus Sarah after long Barrenness brought forth an Isaac Rebeccah a Jacob Rachel a Joseph Hannah a Samuel and Elizabeth St. John the Baptist When God makes his People wait long for a particular Mercy if he sees it good for them he gives it in at last with a double Reward for their Expectation 8 And it came to pass that while he executed the Priests office before God in the order of his course 9 According to the custom of the Priests office his lot was to burn incense when he went into the Temple of the Lord. Here Note 1. That none but a Son of Aaron might offer Incense to God in the Temple and not every Son of Aaron neither nay not any of them at all Seasons God is a God of Order and hates Confusion no less than Irreligion And as under the Law of old so under the Gospel at this Day no man ought to take this honour upon him but he that is called of God as was Aaron Obs 2. That there were Courses of Ministration in the Legal Services in which the Priests did relieve one another weekly God never purposed to burthen any of his Servants with Devotion nor is he pleased when his Service is made burthensome either to or by his Ministers Many of the Sons of Aaron served together in the Temple according to the variety of their Imployments which were assigned them by Lot and accordingly it fell out at this time that Zachary was chosen by Lot to burn Incense Obs 3. That Morning and Evening twice a day the Priests offered up their Incense to God that both parts of the day might be Consecrated to him who was the Maker and Giver of their Time This Incense offered up under the Law represents our Prayers offered to God under the Gospel These Almighty God expects that we should all his Church over send up to him Morning and Evening The Ejaculatory Elevations of our Hearts should be perpetual but if Twice a day we do not present God with our Solemn Invocations we make the Gospel less officious then the Law and can we reasonably think that Almighty God will accept of less now then would content him then 10 And the whole Multitude of the people were praying without at the time of Incense Observe here 1. While the Incense was burning the People were Praying whilst the Priest sends up his Incense in the Temple within the People send up their Prayers in the Court without The Incense of the Priest and the Prayers of the People meet and go up to Heaven together Hence Learn That it is a Blessed thing when both Minister and People jointly offer up their Prayers for each other at the same Throne of Grace and mutually strive together in their S●pplications one with and one for another Obs 2. How both Priest and People keep their place and Station the Priest Burns Incense in the Holy place and the People offer up their Prayers in the outward Court The people might no more go into the Holy place to offer up their Prayers then Zachary might go into the Holy of Holies to burn Incense Whilst the Partition-Wall stood betwixt Jew and Gentile there was also a partition betwixt the Jews and themselves But now under the Gospel every Man

of God the Father pronouncing 1. The Nearness of Christ's Relation to himself This is my Son 2. The Endearedness of his Person This is my Beloved Son 3. The Fruit and Benefit of this near and dear Relation unto us In him I am well pleased Note 1. That there is no possibility for any Person to please God out of Christ both our Persons and our Performances find Acceptance only for His sake 2. That in and through Christ God is well-pleased with all Believers This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased c. CHAP. IV. The former part of this Chapter acquaints us with our Blessed Saviour's Combat with and Conquest over Satan and the first Verse informs us of the Time when and Place where the Combat was fought 1 THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil Observe here 1. The Time when Christ entred the Lists with Satan implied in the word Then that is First Immediately after his Baptism he is no sooner out of the Water of Baptism but he is in the Fire of Temptation Secondly Immediately after the Spirit descended upon him and the Father had by a Voice from Heaven manifested his Complacency and Satisfaction in him This is my Beloved Son c. Note thence That great Manifestations of Love from God are usually followed with great Temptations from Satan Observe 2. The Place where this Combat was fought and that is in the Wilderness Learn thence That no Place can priviledge us from Temptation or be a Sanctuary from Satan's Assaults the solitary Wilderness has a Tempter in it yea Satan sometimes makes use of Mens Solitariness to farther his Temptations a Cell a Nunnery or a Cloister are as open to Satan as the open Fields and the Persons that live in them have a Tempter without and an Enticer within as well as other Men. Obs 3. The Efficient Cause of Christ's going into the Wilderness to be Tempted by Satan He was led up of the Spirit says St. Matthew The Spirit drove him says St. Mark That is the Holy Spirit of God not Satan the Unclean Spirit for the Devil is seldom if ever called The Spirit but usually some Brand of Reproach is annexed as the Evil Spirit or the Vnclean Spirit Christ was Led by the Spirit that is he was carried by a strong Impulse of the Spirit of God into the Wilderness to be Tempted by Satan Learn hence 1. That none of the Children of God ought to expect a Freedom from Temptations seeing Christ himself in the Days of his Flesh was strongly solicited by Satan unto Sin 2. That all the Temptations wherewith the Children of God are assaulted are ordered by Divine and Special Dispensation Satan could not assault our Saviour till he was Led by the Spirit into the Wilderness for that End and he shall not assault any of his Members but by Divine Permission and special Dispensation 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights he was afterward an hungred Obs here 1. How the Divine Power upheld the Human Nature of Christ without Food What Moses did at the Giving of the Law Christ doth at the Beginning of the Gospel namely Fast Forty Days and Forty Nights Christ hereby intended our Admiration not our Imitation or if our Imitation of the Action only not of the Time Christ teaches us by Fasting and Prayer to prepare our selves for a Conflict with our Spiritual Enemies as he prepared himself by Fasting to grapple with the Tempter so should we 3 And when the tempter came to him he said If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread Observe here 1. The Occasion of the Temptation 2. The Temptation it self The Occasion was our Saviour's Hunger and want of Bread Learn thence That when God suffers any of his Dear Children to fall into Want and to be streightned for Outward Things Satan takes a mighty Advantage thereupon to Tempt and Assault them But what doth he Tempt our Saviour to To the Sin of Distrust to question his Sonship If thou be the Son of God And next to distrust his Father's Providence and Care Command that these Stones be made Bread Learn hence 1. That Satan's grand Design is first to tempt the Children of God to doubt of their Adoption and next to Distrust God's Fatherly Care over them and Provision for them and last of all to use Unwarrantable Means to help themselves Thus Satan dealt with Christ and thus he deals with Christians For to work a Miracle at Satan's Direction was not a Lawful Means of providing Food for himself 4 But he answered and said It is written Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Observe here The Weapon which our Saviour made use of to repell the Temptation and to vanquish the Tempter and that is the Word of God It is written Learn That the Scriptures or the Written Word of God is the only sure Weapon wherewith to vanquish Satan and to beat back all his Fiery Temptations 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city and setteth him on a pinacle of the temple That is Satan by God's permission took up his Body and carried it in the Air and set it upon one of the Battlements of the Temple Learn hence 1. What a mighty Power Evil Spirits have over our Bodies if God permits them to execute and exercise their Power upon them 2. That it is owing to the gracious Care and watchful Providence of God over us that we are not hurried away bodily by Satan Thanks be to God tho' the Devil's Malice be infinite yet his Power is limited and bounded as he cannot do all the Mischief he would to the Bodies and Souls of Men so he shall not do all he can 6 And saith unto him If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down for it is written He shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone Here we have Observable First the Sin which Satan tempts Christ unto and next the Argument which he tempts him from The Sin tempted to is the Sin of Self-Murther Cast thy self down Whence we Learn That Self-Murther is a Sin which Christ himself was and the best of Saints may by Satan be tempted to the Commission of But forasmuch as Satan tempted Christ to murther himself but had not power to do it himself do thou cast thy self down We Learn That tho' Satan may tempt yet he cannot compel he may entice but cannot enforce any to Sin against their own Consent Obs 2. The Argument which Satan uses it is a Scripture-Argument he quotes the Promise of God He shall give his Angels charge over thee What a Marvel is here to find Satan with a Bible under his Arm and a Text of Scripture in his Mouth Christ