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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

Eternal All Believers have and shall experience the healing Power of our Redeemer's Death to the end of the World Lastly The Israelites that were cured by looking up to the brazen Serpent dyed afterwards some Distemper or other soon carried them to their Graves but the Soul of the Believer that is healed by Christ shall never dye more Whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have eternal Life 16 ¶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Here observe 1. The Orignal Source and Fountain of Man's Salvation and that is God's free and undeserved his great and wonderful Love God so loved the World he doth not say how much but leaves it to our most solemn raised Thoughts it is rather to be conceived than declared and admired rather than conceived God so loved the World Hence Note That the Original Spring and first Cause of our Salvation is the free Favour and meer Love of God Observe 2. The Greatness of the Gift by which God evidenced and demonstrated the Greatness of his Love to a lost World He gave his only begotten Son that is he deliver'd him up from out of his own Bosom and everlasting Embraces Now this will appear a stupendious Expression of God's Love if we consider that God gave Him for us who was not only the greatest but the dearest Person to him in the World even his own Son That he gave him for Sinners That he gave him for a World of Sinners That he gave him up to become a Man for Sinners That he gave him up to become a miserable Man for Sinners That he gave him up to be a Sacrifice for the Sin of Sinners Observe 3. The Gracious end for which God gave this great Gift of his Love to lost Sinners That whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have eternal Life Where Note 1. The gentle and merciful Condition upon which Salvation depends Whoever believeth on Christ shall not perish 2. The infinite Goodness of God in proposing such a vast Reward unto us upon our performing of this Condition He shall have everlasting Life Learn hence That Faith is the way which God hath appointed and the Condition which God has required in order to our obtaining Salvation by Jesus Christ This Faith consists in the assent of the Understanding That Jesus is the Saviour of the World In the Consent of the Will to accept of Jesus freely and voluntarily deliberately advisedly and resolvedly for our Saviour in accepting the Merit of his Blood and submitting to the Authority of his Laws it being in vain to expect Salvation by Christ if we do not yield Subjection to him He that thus believes on Christ that submits himself to his ruling Power as well as commits himself to his saving Mercy shall not perish but have everlasting Life 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved 18 ¶ He that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begoten Son of God Observe here That the Salvation of Sinners was the intentional End and the Condemnation of them only the accidental Event of Christ's coming into the World The Design of Christ's first coming into the World was to save it The End of his second coming will be to judge the unbelieving Part of it Observe Secondly That Unbelief is the formal Cause of the Sinner's Damnation it is that sin which doth bind all other sins upon the sinner and consign him over to Damnation it is that sin which doth not only procure Damnation but no Damnation like it which is intimated in the next Verse 19 And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil Observe here 1. The Worth and Dignity of a choice and invaluable Priviledge declared Light is come into the World A Personal Light Christ a Doctrinal Light the Gospel 2. Observe the Unworthiness Abuse and great Indignity which the World through Infidelity offers to this Benefit they reject it and love Darkness rather than Light Obs 3. The dreadful Sentence of Wrath which the Rejection of this Benefit and the Abuse of Christ brings upon the impenitent and unbelieving World It terminates in their full and final Condemnation This is the Condemnation That is 't is a just and righteous Condemnation 't is an inevitable and unavoidable Condemnation 't is an heightened and aggravated 't is an accelerated and hastned an irrevocable and eternal Condemnation Learn hence That the greater and clearer the Light is under which the unregenerate and impenitent do live in this World so much the heavier will their Condemnation and Misery be in the World to come if they wilfully and finally reject it 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God In these Words our Saviour acquaints us with the different Nature of Sin and Holiness It is the Nature of Sin and the Property of Sinners to hate the Light because it discovers the Evil and Sinfulness of their Ways unto them and condemns them for them as the Ethiopians are said to curse the Sun for its bright and hot shining whereas holy and gracious Persons that walk uprightly do love the Light that is they delight to have their Thoughts Words and Actions tried by the Light of the Word because they are wrought in God that is performed as in the sight of God According to the Direction of the VVord of God and with a single Eye and sincere Aim at the Glory of God Learn hence 1. That the Word of God or the Gospel of Jesus Christ it has all the Properties of a Great and True Light It is of a pure and purifying Nature it is manifestative and of a discovering Nature It has a piercing Power and penetrating Vertue It enters the darkest Recesses of the Soul and detects the Errors of Mens Judgments as well as discovers the Enormities of their Lives Learn 2. That nothing is so hateful to and hated by a wicked Man as the discovering and reproving Light of the Word of God for at the same time that it discovers the sin it condemns the Sinner Learn 3. That a truly gracious Person who acteth agreeably to the Will of God is not afraid to examine his Actions by the VVord of God but desires and delights that what he does may be made manifest both to God and Man He that doth Truth cometh to the Light and rejoyceth that his Deeds may be made manifest because they are wrought in God 22 ¶ After these things came Jesus and his

believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God 70 Jesus answered them have not I chosen you twelve and one of you is a devil 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon for he it was that should betray him being one of the twelve Our Saviour finding many of his nominal Disciples forsaking him and departing from him Asks his Apostles the Twelve whether they would also go away intimating that their Departure would go nearer to him than the departure of all the rest The nearer they are from whom we receive unkindnesses the nearer do those unkindnesses go to our Hearts Will you of the Twelve also go away Peter as the mouth and in the name of the Rest Answers That they knew none besides to whom they could go and expect that happiness which they did from him They that go from Christ can never hope to mend themselves let them go whither they will therefore 't is as irrational as it is sinful to depart from Christ who hath the words that is the promise of Eternal Life Observe Lastly St. Peter having made this profession for himself and the rest of the Twelve that they would not depart from Jesus whom they believed to be the True Messias the Son of God Christ intimates to Peter that his Charity was something too large in promising so much for them all for there was one Traytor among them whose heart was as open to Christ as his face was to them he meant it of Judas Iscariot of whose perfidiousness he gave them warning at this Time Learn hence That the better any Man is in himself the more charitable is the opinion which he has of others Charity inclines to believe others good till they discover themselves to be bad Learn 2. That Christ doth approve of our charitable judgment of others sincerity according to what we hope and believe tho' we happen to be mistaken and our judgment is not according to Truth Christ knew Judas to be an Hypocrite at this time but doth not Reprove Peter for having a better opinion of him than he deserved 'T is far better to Err on the Charitable than on the Censorious hand 't is less offensive to Christ and less Injurious to our selves CHAP. VII 1 AFter these things Jesus walked in Galilee for he would not walk in Jewry because the Jews sought to kill him Our Blessed Saviour knowing that the Rage of the Chief Priests and Pharisees in Judea and at Jerusalem was grown to that height that they were resolved to kill him to avoid their fury he resolves to continue in Galilee and would not come into Judea at present nor go up to Jerusalem into the mouth of his Enemies his hour not being yet come Learn hence That so long as it was necessary for Christ to save and preserve himself from danger he was pleased to use the ordinary means for his own preservation Namely Retirement and withdrawing himself Christ as God could have rid himself out of the hands of his Enemies by a miraculous preservation but he uses the ordinary means when they would serve the turn and as he would not decline danger when his hour was come so would he not run into danger before it was come but used all prudential means and methods for his own safety and preservation He would not come into Judea because the Jews sought to kill him 2 Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand There were Three great Feasts which the Jews celebrated every Year Namely The Feast of the Passover the feast of Pentecost and the feast of Tabernacles This last was observed in the Month of September after they had gathered in the Fruits of the Earth whence it was also called the Feast of Ingathering At this Feast they went out of their Houses and dwelt in Booths Seven Days in Remembrance of their living in Tents of Booths in the Wilderness for Forty Years together before they came to Canaan Now the Institution of this Feast being to call to the Israelites Remembrance their former condition in the Wilderness Teaches us how prone and ready we are to forget our Troubles and the Mercies wherewith our Troubles have been sweetned when once they are past and over The Jews when settled in Canaan going out of their Houses Yearly and dwelling in Booths did thereby testifie that present Mercies had not made them forget former Tryals and Troubles 3 His brethren therefore said unto him Depart hence and go into Judea that thy disciples also may see the works that thou dost 4 For there is no man that doth any thing in secret and he himself seeketh to be known openly If thou do these things shew thy self to the world 5 For neither did his brethren believe in him Observe here 1. The Advice which Christ's Brethren that is his Kindred gave him to render himself more famous and publickly known to the World they Advise him not to tarry any longer in Galilee an obscure place but go into the more Noble and Populous Country of Judea and work Miracles there But what high presumption was this in Creatures to prescribe to Christ and direct him whither to go and what to do Observe 2. The Reason they offer for their Advice for no Man that seeketh to be known openly will do any thing in secret that is if thou wilt be thought to be the Messias by thy working Miracles do them not in a Corner but go up to Jerusalem with us at this next Feast that the Great Men may take notice of them Such as hunt after Reputation themselves and are Ambitious of vain Glory and Commendation from Men they measure others even the most Holy and Religious by their own Inclinations and dispositions and wonder that others do not follow their measures for gaining Reputation and Respect Thus did our Lord's Brethren here but the Wonder ceases if we consult the following words Neither did his Brethren Believe in him It is no new Thing for the Holiest Servants of God to meet with great Trials from their graceless Friends Christ met with this before us his Kindred according to the Flesh not believing in him were a sore Trial and Temptation to him Some Martyrs have confest that the hardest works they have met withal have been to withstand the Temptations the Tears and Entreaties of their dearest and nearest Relations 6 Then Jesus said unto them My time is not yet come but your time is alway ready 7 The world cannot hate you but me it hateth because I testifie of it that the works thereof are evil 8 Go ye up unto this feast I go not up yet unto this feast for my time is not yet full come 9 When he had said these words unto them he aboad still in Galilee Here we have Christ's Answer and Refusal returned to his Brethrens desire he tells them they might go up to the Feast at Jerusalem when they pleased and as publickly but it was not