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A29671	The sacred and most mysterious history of mans redemption wherein is set forth the gracious administration of Gods covenant with man-kind, at all times, from the beginning of the world unto the end : historically digested into three books : the first setteth down the history from Adam to the blessed incarnation of Christ, the second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his baptisme ..., the third, from thence till his glorious coming to judgement / by Matthew Brookes ...	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4918; ESTC R11708	321,484	292

been done by him at that feast in Hierusalem Our blessed Lord did his miracles more sparingly at Hierusalem then in other places in Galilee he healed all manner of sickness S. Mat. 4.23 S. Mat. 8.16 and all manner of disease among the people In Capernaum he healed all that were sick At the pool of Bethesda lay a great multitude of impotent folk and he healed but one of them although it must not be denyed but that he could have healed them all with a word of his mouth The reason was known only to himself S. Mat. 13.58 but where they would not believe there he did not many mighty works The solemnity of the feast being ended he went into Galilee and went into a Synagogue and there cured a man that had a withered hand but the story is diversly reported by the Evangelists The history of the man that had the withered hand For although all of them do say that his enemies the Scribes and the Pharisees sought occasion against him to accuse him of cruelty or imbecillity as S. Hierome observeth if he should not cure him of breach and violation of the sabbath S. Mat. 12.10 if he should cure him yet St. Matthew saith that they asked him saying Is it lawfull to heale on the sabbath dayes But St. Marke and St. Luke do say S. Mar. 3 4 S. Luc. 6.9 that he asked them Is it lawfull to do good on the sabbath dayes or to do evill to save life or to kill In this there is no contrariety if as St. Augustine saith it be understood that they first asked him and that he understanding their thoughts and that they sought matter of accusation against him commanded the man to stand forth and then he asked them and when they held their peace that then he proposed the similitude of the sheep fallen into a pit on the sabbath day De cons Evang. It is very pertinent to the story and likely to be true which St. Hierome hath observed out of that apocryphal Gospel which the Nazarites a sect of Heretiques among the Iewes and the Ebioni●es a judaizing sect among the Christians did use called by them the authentick Gospel of St. Matthew Wherein it is written that this man whose right hand was withered was a Playsterer or rough Mason who got his living by his painfull labour and that he made supplication unto Christ in this manner I was a Playsterer I got my living with my hands I beseech thee Iesus to make me whole that I may not shamefully begge my food Not unlikely and then the story must be thus And he entred again into the Synagogue and there was a man there which had a withered hand whose right hand was withered S. Mar. 3.1 S. Luc. 6.6 And the Scribes and Pharisees watched him whether he would heal him Mar. 3.2 on the sabbath day that they might find an accusation against him And they asked him saying Is it lawfull to heale on the sabbath day that they might accuse him And he said unto them 7. What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep S. Mat. 12 10 and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day will he not lay hold on it and lift it out How much then is a man bet er then a sheepe Wherefore it is lawfull to do well on the sabbath dayes He stateth the question 11 and condemneth them also of covetousness as St. Hierome rightly observeth If you 12. saith he upon the sabbath day make all haste to pull out a sheep or some other beast fallen into a pit yet not for the beast's sake but therein serving your own covetousness and least you should sustain the loss of the beast by how much more ought I to cure a man upon the sabbath day who is much better then a sheep The man hearing this probably cryeth out saying I was a Playsterer I got my living with my hands I beseech thee O Jesus to make me whole that I may not shamefully begge my food But he knew their thoughts and said to the man which had the withered hand Rise up S. Luc. 6.8 and stand forth in the midst And he arose and stood forth Then said Jesus unto them I will aske you one thing Is it lawfull on the sabbath dayes to do good or to do evill to save life or to destroy it but they held their peace as Saint Marke saith And when he had looked round about on them 9. with anger being grieved for the hardness of their hearts he saith unto the man stretch forth thine hand and he stretched it out S. Mar. 3.5 and his hand was restored whole as the other And the Pharisees wen● forth and straight way took counsell with the Herodians against him 6. how they might destroy him But he withdrew himself with his Disciples from their rage and fury being attended with great multitudes who followed him and came unto him for his miracles sake and as many as had infirmities and were all healed And it came to pass in those dayes while he went about attended with such great multitudes doing all sorts of miracles and having a small ship which waited on him S. Mar. 3.9 S. Luc. 6.12 13. because of the multitude lest they should throng him That he went into a mountaine to pray and continued all night in prayer to God And when it was day he called unto him his Disciples and of them he chose twelve whom also he named Apostles He ordained twelve saith St. Marke that they should be with him S. Mar. 3.14 and that he might send them forth to preach And to have power to heale sicknesses 15. and to cast out Devils He called them Apostles because he made them his legates or Ambassadors The Apostles ordained and why so called whom he would presently send to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and after his ascension to preach the Gospell unto all nations for the verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to send And the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is amandatus one sent away with commission or command generally in any business and with any ones commission or command But Christ his Apostles were sent by his commission and command immediately and therefore by the Evangelists and Ecclesiasticall Writers Heb. 3.1 S. Joh. 20.21 are understood specially by that name Christ himself was an Apostle and as he was sent by the Father even so sent he his Apostles He sent them even so but their Sicut doth infer no more but similitude in legation not parity or equality they were not therefore equall and one with him as he was equall and one with the Father He was sent by the Father in that he was made of a woman and made under the law to redeem them that were under the law They were not sent in such a legation howsoever they were sent in the greatest trust that

proper It is he who forgiveth all thine iniquities Psal 103.3 who healeth all thy diseases 2ly To the end that if any man would have a strong faith not to faint or waver in the day of temptation if he would believe all the articles of the faith and all the mysteries of christian religion faithfully he should then come to the miracles of Christ He hath wrought all his miracles for the glory of God By these he was manifested to be the son of God and the promised Messiah By these the doctrine of the gospell is confirmed By these the kingdome of Sathan is destroyed Who shall doubt who shall waver who shall faint having his faith confirmed by so many wonderfull miracles 3ly To the end that if any man would clense his waies as holy David counselleth his young man to do by taking heed thereto according to the word of God he should then have before his eyes the miracles of Christ To pray to him that opened the blinde eyes that he would open the eyes of his understanding to behold the wonderfull things of his law that he may see his own sinfull condition which is by nature the mercie of God and the merits of Christ to the end that he may know him Phil. 3.10 and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death For the excellency of which knowledge-sake Saint Paul accounted all things but losse To pray to him that restored feet to the lame that he would turn his feet out of every evill way lest he walk in the counsell of the ungodly to tread in the paths of pride with the proud of covetousnesse and voluptuousnesse with the covetous and voluptuous To pray to him that opened the deafe ears thar he would open his ears so as that he may hear and be obedient unto his most holy and most blessed word Seeing not the hearers only Rom. 2.13 but they that hear it and do it shall be justified To pray to him that cast out devills that he would cast out the suggestions and first motions of sin whereby the devill is in every one of us for that all they who receive those first motions and suggestions with delight and consent unto them and reduce them into act and persevere in the act without repentance have fulfilled the lusts of the flesh having nothing else to expect in their hardness and impenitent heart but that dreadfull doom denounced by Saint Paul Gal. 5.21 They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God Finally to pray to him that raised the dead to life again S. Joh. 11.43 and called Lazarus out of his grave saying Lazarus come forth that he would so raise him from the death of sin unto a life of righteousness in this world that when the trump shall blow and the graves shall open and the earth surrender and the vast and huge seas yield forth those whom they have devoured he may then see God in the land of the living being raised to life immortall by him S. Joh. 11.25 who is the resurrection and the life This great miracle so wrought in Cana of Galilee and the nuptiall solemnities being ended Jesus went directly to Capernaum Jesus goeth to Capernaum It was a great mart town pleasantly scituated by the sea of Tiberias and was the metropolis of Galilee having commerce with Tyrus and Zidon which were distant from it about forty and foure miles and Capernaum it selfe was from Hierusalem about fifty and six miles in the tribe of Issachar being supposed to be the meditullium of the twelve tribes S. Mat. 9.1 and is said to be his owne city because he came often thither preached and did many great works there Hither he came accompanyed with his mother his brethren and his disciples And because the feast of the passeover drew near and he himselfe intended to go up to Hierusalem and to be there at that feast to the end that he might manifest himselfe there by his divine doctrine and by his miracles he stayed not many daies in Capernaum at that time but departed from thence with his disciples They were yet his disciples but by agnition and familiarity he intended to have them to be his disciples by vocation and by adhaesion A three-fold adm●ssion of the disciples and then to go up to Hierusalem attended by them The order of the Evangelists therefore must be observed Saint John saith After this this his first miracle so wrought and the nuptiall solemnities ended he went down to Capernaum he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples who were admitted to be his disciples by knowledge of him and by acquaintance and familiarity with him and they continued there not many daies And the Jewes passeover was at hand and Jesus went up to Hierusalem S. Joh. 2.12 13. But first his disciples were gone to employ themselves in their own profession for they were fishers S. Mar. 1.16 17 18 19 20. S. Mat. 1.18 19 20 21 Therefore Jesus as Saint Matthew saith and with him Saint Mark almost totidem verbis walking by the sea of Galilee saw two brethren Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers And he saith unto them Follow me and I will make you fishers of men And they straight-way left their nets and followed him And going on from thence he saw other two brethren James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in a ship with Zebedee their father mending their nets and he called them And they immediately left the ship 22. and their father and followed him They followed him yet not so but that they returned again to their ships and nets to fish and to acquire a livelyhood for themselves and for their families though he had called them to be his disciples S. Luc. 5 1 And it came to passe after this that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God he stood by the lake of Genezareth 2 And saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets 3 And he entred into one of the ships which was Simons whom before he had called to the discipleship and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land and he sat downe and taught the people out of the ship Now when he had left speaking 4 he said unto Simon Lanch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught And Simon answering said unto him Master 5 we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing neverthelesse at thy word I will let down the net And when they had this done they inclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net brake 6 And they beckoned unto their partners which were in the other ship that they should come and help them 7 8 And