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A50050	Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1650 (1650)	Wing L986; ESTC R20337	837,685	476

in his sight The Greek is All flesh shall not be justified in thy sight by the deeds of the Law The meaning is none shall The word all joyned with the negative is often according to the Hebrew phrase put for none No flesh Flesh by double figure is put for man flesh for the body it being the matter of it and that again as a part for the whole man Vers. 21. The righteousnesse of God Either because he is the founder and contriver of it or because he bestowes it and gives it unto men or because it is the righteousnesse onely that will stand and hold out before God or by way of opposition to the righteousnesse of the Law which may well be called the righteousnesse of men Vers. 23. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God All That is all Nations Jewes and Gentiles that the Gentiles sinned against the Law written in their hearts the Apostles proved in the first Chapter that the Jewes sinned against the Law written in the Book he proves in the second Chapter so in this Chapter v. 9. Secondly all that is all persons young and old 5. Chap. 12.14 verses have sinned the Greeke word signifies to misse the mark and come short Greek faln back left behind the word signifies them which are left behind in the race and are not able to rune to the mark the glory that is the glorious Image which God stamped on man at the Creation which consisted in knowledge righteousnesse and true holinesse and dominion over the creatures or the glory of heaven which should have been the end of their obedience Vers. 24. In this and the next verse is described the great benefit of justification in all the causes of it Being justified That is declared to be just or absolved before God The whole Act of our Justification is described in Law Termes the sinner is the guilty person the plaintiffe or accuser the Devill the witnesse conscience the advocate Christ the Judge God This Justification is described 1. From the efficient cause by his Grace by grace here is not meant a meere outward proposing of the word of God as Pelagians say nor any inward work of holinesse in us as the Papists but the goodnesse and love of God without us 2. Impulsive either 1. Internall implyed in the word freely it is oppossed to merit or dignitie here 2. Externall the redemption of Jesus Christ. 3. The instrumentall cause through faith in his bloud 4. The finall cause to declare his righteousnesse for the remission of sinnes past freely First without cause or merit so Iohn 15.25 Secondly without price 10. Matth. 8. vide Gerh. in loc by his grace that is the free favour of God Vers. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud 1. God hath made Christ the mercy ●eat 2. Under the Law it was but the type figure of him they that would obtaine any mercy from God must seeke it in and through him onely Secondly now by the ministry of the Gospell the Lord hath set forth this mercy seat openly to the v●ew of all men all men may have accesse unto it in the Law it stood in the holy of holies within the vaile and the High Priest onely had accesse unto it and but once a yeare 3. No man may come to the mercy seat nor hope to hude mercy with God through Christ but onely by faith in his bloud as Levit. 16.17 Mr. Hildersam on Psal. 51.7 vide Bezam A Propitiation So we read it but rather a Propitiatory the same Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Septuagint used for the Jewes Propitiatory See 25. Exod. 22. Vers. 31. We establish the Law The Law is established by the Gospell 1. By apprehending Christs righteousnesse for the perfect obedience unto it and fulfilling of it by our surety He hath fufilled the precept and satisfied the curse 2. By our own inchoate obedience unto it which by meanes of the Gospell being a quickning Spirit we are enabled unto CHAP. IV. THe Papists oppose the imputation of Christs righteousnesse to us and cavill at the very word imputation calling of it justiriam putativam and a new no righteousnesse yet Paul useth the word ten times in this Chapter and in the same sense that we take it verses 3.4.5.6 8.11.22 23 24. Vers. 5. That justifieth the ungodly Not in their sins but from their sins through Christ God doth justifie the ungodly as Christ doth save sinners in sensu diviso that is not while they are ungodly no● while they are sinners but when they have forsaken their wicked wayes and turned to the Lord by true and sound repentance This place must not be understood simply of such one that doth nothing at all but respectively of such a one as doth not rest upon his workes nor rely upon his righteousnesse but renouncing his own workes doth cast himselfe upon the free grace of God 2. Ungodly is not used in the common sense for one that hath no goodnesse in him at all but in a limited sense viz. for one that wantteh such perfection of goodnesse as on which he may build the hopes of his justification the proposition is drawn from the instance of Abraham a man not altogether void of workes and righteousnesse His faith is counted for righteousnesse Faith is accounted for righteousnesse without our merite for the merites of Christ which are not inherent in us but are communicated unto us by his Spirit whereby we are made members of his body and partakers of his righteousnesse Vers. 11. A seale of the righteousnesse of faith Circumcision is a signe in regard of the thing signified a seal in regard of the Covenant made betwixt God and man of righteousnesse not our own but that of Christ both active and passive faith as the instrument makes the righteousnesse of Christ ours by imputation Vers. 15. The Law worketh wrath That is manifests it and so when it brings it unto light it semes to have effected it Verse 18. Against hope Of sense and reason beleeved in hope of Gods word that is he conceived firme confidence in heart of the truth and power of God which is manifest by the Antithesis Vers. 19. And being not weake in faith be considered nor his own body now dead when be was about an hundred yeeres old Vers. 20. He staggered not The Greek word in other places is translated doubting nothing doubting but the same word is also translated discerning 1 Cor. 11.29 Vers. 21. Being fully perswaded There may be a full assurance of faith respectu objecti viz. the goodnesse truth and power of God but not respectu subjecti as it is in us in regard of our corruption It is a metaphore taken from ships that come into harbour with full saile Vers. 25. Was raised againe for our justification Christ paid our debt when he

taken Matth. 24.32 Marke 3.23 It is used for any thing uttered more obscurely and figuratively Matth. 15.15 For a proverb Luke 4.23 For a type of the Old Testament prefiguring something in the New Testament Heb. 9.9 and 11.19 But properly and strictly it is taken for the artificiall narration of a thing as it were done to signifie another thing so it is taken here Our Saviour used Parables and similitudes Matth. 13.3.24.31.33.41.45 Marke 4.33.34 Christ alwayes observed this in Parables saith Chemnitius either he himselfe interpreted them or at least in the beginning or end of the Parable he added some sentence which is as a key to open the true sense of the Parable that thence the genuine interpretation may be taken There are many reasons given why Christ speakes so often in similitudes either because the people of the East were accustomed of old to propound their doctrine under such representations as we see in many passages of the Old Testament or because the divine oracles had foretold that the Messiah should open his mouth in Parables or because supernaturall objects insinuate themselves more easily into the Spirit and make more lively impressions there being conveighed by those things which are obvious to the senses Vers. 13. To catch him in his words In Greeke a metaphore from hunters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sicut scilicet venator captat feram Piscat Matthew useth another metaphore from the hunting after birds Vide Bezam Vers. 14. For thou regardest not the person of men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Regarding of mens persons is where we more favour this man than another not for difference in the cause but of the person I am the God I am that God ego sum Deus ille it is an emphaticall article noting an excellent thing and known to the common people as if he should say that God which appeared to those holy Fathers and gave them certaine promises making a Covenant of grace with them Piscat Vers. 29. The first of all the commandements is The first not of order in the Decalogue but by reason of weight and dignity because it is the speciall commandement and most momentous Capell Spicileg Vers. 34. Discreetly The word is significant as one having a reasonable soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi dicas Habendo mentem id est cum mente Piscat Vide Bezam Vers. 37. And the common people heard him gladly Libenter willingly Beza and the Vulgar Because that which is done with pleasure is done willingly Vers. 44. Even all her being When a poore man offers any thing hee seemes to offer his soule or certainely it is as gratefull to God as if he offered his soule that is his life Life is put for foode 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all her life so Luke 8.43 CHAP. XIII Vers. 1. WHat manner of stones Interrogatio admirantis as if he should say these stones viz. of the Temple what and how great are they how faire and how great Luke expresly mentions their fairenesse Marke their greatnesse in the answer of Christ. Vers. 11. Take no thought before hand what ye shall speake neither do ye premeditate Our Saviour forbiddeth his Apostles both to take care and to take thought before hand when they were to appeare before great persons both to forecast with themselves what to speak when they come before them and to forethink how that they shall speak will be taken when they have spoken it Vers. 30. This generation shall not passe The word signifieth the space of an hundred yeares albeit this came to passe before fifty yeares Vers. 32. But of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angels which are in heaven neither the Son but the Father To know here is the same with to teach what soever things he might teach he did but it did not agree to his office to declare the day of his comming as 1 Cor. 2.2 to know is taken for to teach as it is commonly said in French Vn ministre ne doit scavoir que sa Bible He knew it not as he was man or in his state of humiliation he did not precisely know it although he knew it as he was God or he knoweth for himself although he will not reveale it unto us CHAP. XIV Verse 5. IT might have been sold for more than three hundred pence Which amounts to above nine pounds seven shillings and sixe pence of our money Mary Magdalene saith à Lapide was more liberall in annointing Christ than Judas in betraying him Vers 8. She is come before hand to annoint my body to the burying The Greeke word signifieth to annoint with sweet aromaticall ointments Kings bodies were annointed with pretious oyntments the piety of Mary Magdalene perswaded her to annoint Christ with such who was more worthy than all Kings Vers. 21. The Son of man indeed goeth as it is written of him The Greeke word rendred goeth signifies properly se subducere to withdraw himself Christ used the same word John 8.22 when he spake of his going to heaven as if the Crosse was as much desired by Christ as heaven it selfe Vers. 23. When he had given thankes The Greeke word is to blesse which is here taken only to give thanks as Luke and Paul interpret it and Marke also speaking of the Cup. Vers. 24. And he said unto them This is my bloud of the new Testament which is shed for many That is a sign and seale of it to all penitent Beleevers The word Testament signifieth properly the last will of a man by which he disposeth of his estate It is used here to signifie the Covenant of God made with mankind in Christ concerning the remission of their sins sanctifying of their hearts and saving of their soules for his sake which is called a Testament because it was made good ratified and confirmed by the death of Jesus Christ and a new Testament in opposition to the old Covenant of workes made with Adam or to the old Covenant shadowed with Ceremonies unto the Jewes for God made two Covenants with men one with Adam in his Innocency in which he required of him perfect obedience to all his Commandements and promised him life everlasting as a reward of his obedience This is called the Covenant of works The other was made with Adam faln in Christ wherein God undertooke to give unto Adam for Christs sake the pardon of his sins and life eternall notwithstanding his sins and required of him faith in Christ and repentance for his sins consisting in sorrow for them and carefull amendment of them This was delivered to the Fathers with divers Ceremonies of the bloud of Bulls and Goates signifying Christs Bloud and this is called the old Covenant It is delivered to us without shadow and sealed by the bloud of Christ which all those Sacrifices represented and it is called the new Covenant Vers. 33. And began to be sore amazed That