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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45241	An exposition of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to John by Geo. Hutcheson.	Hutcheson, George, 1615-1674.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3826; ESTC R11373	940,105	442

6. When other means faile Christ can use violent remedies and by plagues put sinners from their courses Yea when he cometh to reforme he may see it just to smite the very creatures for sinners cause So are we here taught in that by force be drave them all out of the Temple and the sheep and the oxen 7. Our Lords face is very terrible when he is angry even in his abasement and a weak mean of Reformation in his hand and assisted with his power and terrour will serve the turn for when he had made a scourge of small cords more fit in appearance for affrighting children then for this work he drave them all out and none durst resist him 8. It is the duty of all such as are employed in a work of Reformation to testifie their zeal and integrity by not minding or seeking their own things under pretext thereof so much doth Christ practice teach who poured out the changers money and overthrew the Tables but put none of it up 9. There ought to be no tryfling nor composition in the matter of corruptions in the House of God no lesse must satisfie then putting them out at doors as here Christ doth 10. Corruptions even after they have been cast out by Christs own hand may yet creep in again into the House of God in which case Christ will deal more severely for Christ having purged the Temple in this first year of his Ministry hath it again to purge of the same evils Matth. 21.12 13. in the last yeare where in stead of an house of Merchandize he chargeth them with making it a den of thieves 11. Reformation will not be through when only force and violent remedies are applied to purge unlesse instruction be joyned with it to take out the roots of corruptions out of mens mindes and to make them willing to concurre and reforme themselves for Christ joyneth his Word here bidding some take these things hence and warning all not to abuse his house 12. As Christ is Lord and heire of his Fathers house the Church Heb. 3.6 and therefore careth for it so all who have relation to God as their Father their heart will rise in his quarrel when his honour house or service are wronged nor can they endure the presence of what desireth his house Make not saith he my Fathers house an house of merchandize 13. Albeit men would passe over faults done to Gods house and beare with them yet Christ will not but in due time will see to the redressing of them as here we see in this instance 14. Things lawful being done in a wrong time and place become sin as it is also unlawful to spend what is dedicated to God in common or prophane uses both which are reproved in this Make not my fathers house dedicated to him an house of Merchandize though Merchandize be lawful in its own time and place Verse 17. And his disciples remembred that it was written The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up Unto this is subjoyned the observation and use the disciples got of it The Spirit suggested to them that passage Psal 69.9 at that time or afterward and let them see it was then accomplished in Christ though it had its own verity in David the type Whence learn 1. It is the propertie of disciples to construct well of Christs working and get a right sight thereof how rude and tumultuous soever it seem to others for so do the disciples here 2. Christs working will be well constructed and tend to edification when his Word and working are compared together as the disciples are led to do 3. Such as are faithful disciples and conscientious hearers have the promise of a sanctified memory by the Spirits bringing Scriptures to their remembrance as they need for thus it was that his disciples remembred that it was written c. Yet we ought in this to guard against neglect of searching Scripture expecting somewhat to be suggested against leaning to the suggesting of it as the reason why we fasten faith on it rather then if we found it by search agreeing with our need which were to make it no divine Scripture to us but when it is suggested and against Satans delusions who may suggest Scriptures unto soules taken with this way under false glosses 4. Much is spoken of Christ in the Old Testament under types and it should be our care in reading it to understand these types well and see Christ the truth in them for so do the disciples see a Prophecie of Christ held forth in the profession and practice of David the type 5. Zeale providing it be according to knowledge Rom. 10.2 is a commendable grace when men are employed about right things not negligently and for the fashion but affectionately As herein Christ hath given us a patterne who excelled in all graces and particularly that of zeale 6. As Gods house and the matter of his Kingdome and Ordinances are the chief object of zeale which should be ballanced with meeknesse in our own matters so true zeal is the only right and acceptable principle of Reformation and men will go no further in the study of Reformation then there is zeal or indignation against what dishonoureth God and love to that which honoureth him for upon this principle did Christ reforme and he was affected with the zeal of Gods house 7. Albeit true zeal do trust God with caring for his own affaires and so is neither diffident nor hastie yet the nature of it is to be a spending grace and it will affect the person with pain till what is amisse in Gods house be rectified And it will encline a man having Gods call to stoop to meanest employments and to feare no hazards in carrying on Gods work for The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and Christ evidenced how much his zeal affected both body and minde by abasing himself to this mean emploiment of scourging out beasts and men and by exposing himselfe to their fury if he had not been armed with divine terrour 8. Albeit that zealous instruments were removed and love and zeal among men should decay and they neglect and become carelesse of the matters of God yet Christ never wanteth zeal to resent and redresse the wrongs done to Gods house for of him it is still true The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up Verse 18. Then answered the Jewes and said unto him What signe shewest thou unto us seeing that thou doest these things 19. Jesus answered and said unto them Destroy this Temple and in three dayes I will raise it up Followeth in the second branch of this part of the chapters Christs conference with the contentious Jewes even these it seems who were driven out who being put to the door and he drawing back his terrour they in these verses begin to question his authority to do as he had done For seeing these that were in power did tolerate these things they reckon that it was boldnesse in

Courts and Ministers do ministerially in his Name send them out they must not run unsent they who want them and would have them blessed to them should seek them of him They who are lawfully called are to act in his Name and Authority which is to be acknowledged by people in their discharge of their trust and such messengers are to be looked on as a great and special gift bestowed on the Church by her exalted Lord. All this is imported in this I send you now when he is risen from the dead in his begun exaltation See Eph. 4.8 11. 7. This proportion and comparison institute betwixt Christs sending and theirs As my Father hath sent me even so send I you is not to be understood universally as to all the works and ends for which Christ was sent for he was sent to satisfie divine justice and to do the work of Redemption which they were not But it is to be understood of the work of the Ministry and preaching of the Gospel Nor yet is there an equality to be urged here but the proportion and distance is still to be observed and kept betwixt the Lord and his servants and the Bridegroom and his friends Nor is the resemblance only in this that as Christ was immediately sent by the Father so were they as Apostles immediately sent by him But Christs being sent by his Father and their being sent by him do agree 1. In the strictnesse of the Commission that as Christ did alwayes the Will of the Father so they must not dispense with what is committed to their trust nor be the servants of men 2. They agree in having the same promise of successe blessing in their labours as the Apostles richly found 3. They do agree in the matter of their authority so far as however he be the Lord and they servants yet they come cloathed with the same authority being in Christs stead to the people of God 2 Cor. 5.20 and Christ and God in Christ being despised in the affronts put upon them in the exercise of their Ministry Matth. 10.42 Verse 22. And when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them Receive ye the Holy Ghost In the next place Christ who sends them doth also furnish them with the gifts of the Spirit for that office some fruits whereof before that full measure was let out upon them Acts 2. doth appear in what is recorded of them Acts 1.15 c. Whence learn 1. Where Christ doth employ and send out any about his work their call from him being embraced and followed in obedience thereunto and with dependance upon him who hath sent them doth assure them of furniture for their calling also for they are conjoyned here I send you v. 21. And when he had said this he breathed on them c. 2. The furniture of Ministers for discharge of their calling must be the Spirit of God communicate unto them by Christ in his gifts and qualifications sutable and requisite to their work and who must be daily sought for quickening and keeping fresh that furniture which floweth from him and for making the exercise of these gifts effectual for it is the Holy Ghost who furnisheth the Apostles in their measure and station and so also other Ministers They were indeed extraordinarily gifted without any previous study and acquired abilities and other Ministers albeit they ought to make conscience of ordinary means for enabling them to that work 1 Tim. 4.13 yet it is from the Spirit of God that they must be gifted with the Spirit of that emploiment and with common and ordinary gifts for it and it is he who must accompany them in that work and make it lively and effectual 3. The Holy Ghost cometh upon every Professour and particularly Ministers by free donation and gift from Christ He is the acquiter of that furniture unto them and their great work is to receive it of his liberality for saith he Receive ye the Holy Ghost 4. This breathing on them when he communicate this furniture being an extraordinary signe of his communicating this extraordinary furniture it is therefore not to be imitate by any in ordinary who have not the dispensing of these endowments Only Christs making use thereof may serve partly to point out some resemblance betwixt this signe of breathing and the inspirations and refreshful breathings of this Spirit upon them and their gifts who receive it and as the Spirits descending at the signe of fiery cloven tongues Acts 2.3 served to point out their being furnished to speak divers languages so his being communicate by the signe of breathing holds out that where he cometh he quickens and puts life in mens spirits as by Gods breathing the first man was made a living soul Gen. 2.7 and doth refresh and make them fruitful as Caut. 4.16 partly it serveth to point out Christs God-head who hath the gifting of the Spirit in his hand and who can easily as by a breathing furnish the most rude and unlearned and make them extraordinarily able according as the soul of the first man was easily created Verse 23. Whose soever sinnes ye remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained In the last place Christ asserts their authority in the discharge of their Commission and in governing his house and remitting or retaining of sins whether by the Key of knowledge or doctrine in preaching or of order and discipline and he declareth that what they act this way ministerially according to their Commission is ratified in heaven as being but the declaration and intimation of the sentence already passed there This power is elsewhere called the Keyes of the Kingdome of heaven Matth. 16.19 and the power of binding and ●loosing Matth. 18.18 Doct. 1. Christs house is not a den of confusion but an house of order wherein he hath a Camp of doctrine whereby he doth doctrinally declare his minde concerning his subjects and their duty and a rod of discipline whereby he judicially deals with them as their case requireth for so is here imported that there is a power of remitting and retaining sins both doctrinally and by judicial procedure 2. This power in the house of God is committed to Christs own Officers and Ministers sent by him unto his Church so that however private persons may declare the minde of God concerning the sin of others yea and reprove exhort or comfort out of charity yet his Ministers are to do it by office and with authority for it is ye whom I send v. 21. who are to remit and retain sins 3. This power in the house of God is committed equally and in common to all Ministers so that one doth not share in it more then another for here it is given to the apostles in common whose soever sins ye remit c. And thus the Keyes of the Kingdome are not given to Peter only but here expressely to all 4. All the members of the