b which receive a honour one of another, and feek not the honour that cometh from God only. 45. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accufeth you, even Mofes in whom ye truft. 46. For had ye believed Mofes, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47. But if ye believe not his writings, how fhall ye believe my words. A CHA P. VI. Year of our Lord 32. с FTER these things Jefus went over the fea of Galilee, which is the fea of Tiberias. 2. And a great multitude followed him, because they faw his miracles which he did on them that were difeafed. 3. And Jefus went up into a mountain, and there he fat with his difciples. 4. And the f paffover, a feast of the Jews was nigh. 5. When Jefus then lift up his eyes, and faw a great company come unto him, he faith unto Philip, Whence fhall we buy bread that these may eat? 6. (And this he faid to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do) 7. Philip anfwered him, h Two hundred peny-worth of bread is not fufficient for them, that every one of them take a little. 8. One of his difciples, Andrew, Simon Peters brother, faith unto him, 9. There is a lad here, which another. Phil. 2. 3. Let nothing be done through Strife or Vainglory. * may hath the first Month at Even, is the Lord's Paffover. In the first Day ye fhall have an holy Convocation: ye fhall do no fervile Work there5 in. Deut. 16. 1. Obferve the Month of Abib, and keep the Palo ver unto the Lord thy God: for in the Month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Deut. 18. 15. 10 Egypt by Night. A&ts 26. 22. See on Luk. 24. 27. at Rom. 2. 29. Whofe Praise is not of Men, but of God. b † Rom. 2. 12. have finned in the judged by the Law. -As many as Gen. 3. 15. + Gen. 22. 18. Gen. 49. 10. d Luk. 16. 31. If they hear not Mofes and the Prophets, neither will they be perfwaded, though one rofe from the Dead. Mat. 14. 14. Jefus went forth, and faw a great Multitude, and was moved with Compaffion toward them, and he healed their 15 Sick. See on Mat. 14. 15. 20 See Numb. 11. 21, 22. Mofes faid, the People amongst whom I am, are fix hundred Thousand foot Men, and thou haft faid, I will give them Flesh that they may eat a whole Month. Shall the Flocks and the Herds be flain for them? Or i hath five barley-loaves, and two fmall fishes: but what are they among fo many? 10. And Jefus faid, Make the men fit down. Now there was much grafs in the place. So the men fat down, in number about five thousand. 11. And Jefus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he diftributed to the difciples, and the difciples to them that were fet down; and likewife of the fishes, as much as they would. 12. When they were filled, he faid unto his difciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be loft. 13. Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. 14. Then thofe men, when they had seen the miracle that Jefus did, faid, This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world. 15. When Jefus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. 16. And when Even was now come, his difciples went down unto the fea, 17. And entred into a fhip, and went over the fea towards Capernaum: and it was rov dark, and Jefus was not come to them. 18. And the fea arose, by reafon of a great wind that blew. 19. So when they had rowed about five and twenty, or thirty furlongs, they fee Jefus walking on the fea, and drawing nigh unto the fhip: and they were afraid. 20. But he faith unto them, It is I, be not afraid. 21. Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the fhip was at the land whither they went. 22. The day following, when the people. which stood on the other fide of the fea, faw that there was none other boat there, fave that one whereinto his difciples were entred, and that Jefus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his difciples were gone away a lore: and her Houfe, did eat many Days. And the Barrel of Meal wasted not, neither did the Cruife of Oil fail 21. n Deut. 18. 15, 18. † Joh. 1. See on Joh.7. 4°. * Mat. 14. 23. When the Evening was come, he was there alone. Mar. 6. 47. When Even was come, the Ship was in the midst of the Sea, and he alone on the land. a lone: 23. (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberius nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks.) 24. When the people therefore faw that Jefus was not there, neither his difciples, they alfo took fhipping, and came to Capernaum, feeking for Jefus. 25. And when they had found him on the other fide of the fea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when cameft thou hither? 26. Jefus anfwered them and faid, Verily verily I fay unto you, Ye feek me, not because ye faw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. 27. * Labour not [Or, work not] for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man fhall give unto you: for him hath God the Father fealed. 28. Then faid they unto him, what fhall we do, that we might work the Works of God. e a Ver. 11. 6. 19, - 2 29. This is my beloved Son: hear him. See the Note on Luk. 14 17. † Luk 3. 22. And the Holy Ghost Joh. 4, 14 Whofoever drink- defcended in a bodily Shape like a eth of the Water that I fhall give Dove upon him, and a Voice came him, fhall never thirst; but the 5 from Heaven, which faid, Thou Water that I fhall give him, fhall art my beloved Son, in thee I am be in him a Well of Water fpring well-pleafed. tuk. 9.35. There ing up into everlasting Life. Mat. came a Voice out of the Cloud, say20. Lay not up for your ing, This is my beloved Son, hear felves Treasures upon Earth, where to him. Joh. 1. 33 He that fent Moth and Ruft doth corrupt, and me to baptize with Water, the where Thieves break through fame faid unto me, Upon whom and Steal. But lay up for your thou fhalt fee the Spirit defcending felves Treasures in Heaven. 1 Cor. and remaining on him, the fame 6. 13. Meats for the Belly, and 15 is he which baptizeth with the Holy the Belly for Meats: but God fhall Ghoft. † Joh. 5. 37. The Father deftroy both it and them.Col. 3. himself which hath fent me, hath 2. Set your Affection on Things born witness of me. † Joh. 8.18. t above, rot on Things of the -The Father which fent me, Earth. 20 eth witness of me, Acts 2. 22. Je fus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you, by Miracles, and Wonders, and Signs, which Ged did by him in the midst of you, as 25 ye your felves alfo know. Acts 10. 38. God anointed Jefus of Na zareth with the Holy Ghost and with Power.† 2 Pet. s. 17. For he received of God the Fa ther Honour and Glory, when there came fuch a voice to him from the excellent Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. d † Ver. 54. Luk. 15. 42. One thing is needful. e Rom. 6. 23. The Gift of God is Eternal Life, through Jefus Christ our Lord. f Mat. 3. 17. Lo, a Voice from Heaven, faying, This is my belowed Son in whom I am well pleased. Mar. 1. 11. There came a Voice from Heaven, faying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I 30 am well pleafed. Mar. 9. 7. A Voice came out of the Cloud, laying, bear k i B 32. 29. Jefus anfwered and faid unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath fent. 30. They faid therefore unto him, What fign fhewest thou then, that we may fee, and believe thee? what doft thou work? 31. Our fathers did eat manna in the defert, as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jefus faid unto them, Verily verily I fay unto you, Mofes gave you not that bread from heaven: but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33. For the Bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth n life unto the world. 34. Then faid they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35. And Jefus faid unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, fhall never hunger; and he that believeth on me, fhall never thirst. 36. But I faid unto you, that ye alfo have feen me, and believe not. 37. All that the (1) Father I ** 1 Joh. 3. 23. This is his Commandment, that we fhould believe on the Name of his Son Jefus Chrift ht Mat. 16. 1. †1 Cor. 1. 22. See on Mat. 12. 38. 5 if Exod. 16. 15. When the Children of Ifrael faw it, they faid one to another it is Manna: for they wift not what it was. *Numb. 10 11. 7. And the Manna was as Coriander-Seed, and the Colour thereof as the Colour of Bdellium. + Wifd. 16. 20. Thou feddeft thine own People with Angels Food, and 15 didft fend them from Heaven Bread prepared without their Labour, able to content every Man's delight, and agreeing to every Tafte. 1 Cor. 10. 3. And did all 20 at the fame fpiritual Meat. ** Pfal. 78. 24, 25. Had rained down Manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the Corn of Heaven. Man did eat Angels Food: he fent them Meat to the full. Neh. 9. 15. And gaveft them Bread from Heaven for their Hunger, and broughteft forth Water for them out of the Rock. 25 m r Joh. 4. 15. Sir, give me this Water, that I Thirft not, neither come hither to draw. P Ver. 53, 56. Prov. 9. 5. Come, eat of my Bread, and drink of my Wine which I have mingled. 9 t Joh. 4. 14. Whofoever drinketh of the Water that I fhall give him,fhall never Thirst. Joh. 7. 37. In the laft Day, that great Day of the Feaft, Jefus ftood and cried, faying, If any Man Thirst, let him come unto me and drink. S Ver 26. $ Joh. 12. 37. Though he had done fo many Miracles before them, yet they believed not on 30 him. (1) To come to Chrift, and to believe in him, are Expreffions of the fame b 38. and a him that cometh to me, For I came down from hea с giveth me, fhall come to me; I will in no wife caft out. ven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that fent me. 39. And this is the Fathers will which hath fent me, d that of all which he hath given me, I fhould lofe nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40. And this is the will of him that fent me, that every one at Mat. 24 24. -Infomuch that (if it were poffible) they fhould deceive the very Ele&t. Joh.10. 5 28, 29. I give unto them Eternal 15 e which ther, if it be poffible, let this Cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. t Joh. 5. 30. I feek not mine own Will, but the Will of the Father which hath fent me. Joh.4.34.My Meat is to do the Will of him that fent me,and to finish his Work. d t Joh. 10. 28. The Words under Ver. 37. Joh. 17. 12. Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is loft but the Son of Perdition: that the Scripture might be fulfilled. Joh. 18.9. Of them which thou gavest me have I left none. + Ver. 27, 54. Joh. 3. 15. God fame Import: And the Reason why thofe to whom our Lord fpake did not come to him, is here faid to be, because they were not given him by the Father; that is, they were not fitted and prepared for receiving and believing in him by thofe Means the Father had afforded them. They refifted the Evidence our Lord gave them to prove that he was fent by the Father, to propofe the Terms on which they might be faved. Here is nothing in thefe Words which favours the Notion of an abfolute Decree, whereby fome few Perfons are elected to Eternal Life, and the much greater Part of Mankind reprobated. God would have taught them, and given them to his Son to be faved by him, but they would not learn of him: If this was not the Cafe, we muft fuppofe our Lord to be here excufing thofe that rejected him, and would not be prevailed with to come to him; for if they did not come to Chrift, because they could not; and the Reafon why they could not was, because they were not given him by the Father, in the Senfe fome understand thefe Words, they could not be blamed for not coming. But the Cafe was far other wife, for the Father would have given them, but they entertained unreafonable Prejudices against the Son of God, and would not fuffer them felves to be given to him: They hated the Light, and would not come to it, because their Deeds were evil, Joh. 3. 19, 20. Why, fays our Lord, Joh. 8 43. do ye not understand my Speech, because ye cannot hear my Words? And why could they not hear his Words? The following Verfe tells us, because they were of their Father the Devil, and the Lyfts of their Fa ther they would do. |