ed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, a from Decapolis, and from Jerufalem, and from Judea, a from beyond Jordan. A C : a ND seeing the Multitude, he went up into Mountain: and when he was set, his Difcipl came unto him. 2. And he opened his mouth and taug them, faying, 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: f theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. 4. Blessed are the that mourn for they shall be comforted. 5. Bleff are the f meek: for they shall & inherit the eart 6. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst afte rig] u Mar. 3. 7. - And a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea. e Joy for mourning, the garment Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness.. † Luk. 6. 21. - Blessed are ye th weep now: for ye shall laugh. Jo And 5 16.20. Verily, verily, I say unt you, that ye shall weep and lamen but the world shall rejoyce: and shall be forrowful, but your forro shall be turned into joy. a. Mar. 3. 13, 20. And he goeth up into a Mountain. the multitude cometh together again. * Luk. 6. 20. Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. † Prov. 16. 19. Better it isto to be of an humble Spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. † Prov. 29. 23. A Man's Pride shall bring him low: e 2 Cor. 1. 4. Who comfortet us in all our Tribulation, that w may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfor wherewith we our selves are com but honour shall uphold the hum-15forted of God. Jam. 1. 12. Bleffer is the Man, that endureth tempta tion: for when he is tried, he shal receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that ble in Spirit. † Ifa. 57. 15. For thus faith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity, whose name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that20love him. Rev. 7. 17. - God shal is of a poor and humble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the Heart of the contrite ones. Ifa. 66. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite Spirit, and trembleth at my word. wipe away all tears from their eyes f Pf. 22. 6. I am a worm and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Pf. 149.4 25 He will beautifie the meek with Salvation. * Pf. 37. 11. The meek shall inherit the earth: and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. Matt. 19. 14. Suffer little Children, and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the 30 kingdom of heaven. (1 † Ifa. 61. 1, 3. The Lord hath anointed me to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the Oil of3 & † See Rom. 4. 13. The promise that he should be the Heir of the World, was not made to Abra ham, or to his Seed through the Law, but through the righteousness 50f Faith. i 411 h righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7. Bleffed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8. Bleffed are the k pure in Heart: for they shall fee God. 9. Bleffed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the Children of God. 10. Blessed are they perfecuted for righteoufnets fake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11. Bleffed are ye when men thall revile you, and perfecute you, and shall fay all manner of evil against you* falfly (Gr. Lying] for my which are 0 11 h† Ifai. 55. 1. Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the Waters, and he that hath no Money; come ye, buy and ear, C fake. eth uprightly, and worketh righ. teousness, and speaketh the Truth in his Heart. * Pf. 24. 4. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, *Ifa. 65. 13. Thus faith 5 and hath not lift up his Soul ta the Lord God, behold, my Ser- vanity, nor fworn deceitfully. Vants shall eat, but ye shall be † Heb. 12. 14. Follow peace with bungry: behold my Servants shall all Men, and Holiness, without drink, but ye shall be thirsty, Pf. 17. 15. As for me, I will behold thy Face in righteousness: I shall be fatisfied, when I awake with thy likeness. Joh. 6. 35. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. which no man shall fee the Lord.. 1 † 1 Cor. 13. 12. Now we 10fee through a glass darkly; but then face to face + 1 Joh. 3. 2. We shall fee him as he is. 111 I Cor. 14. 33. God is not the Author of confusion, but of peace, as in all Churches of the 15 Saints. 2 Cor. 13. II. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Rom. 16. 20. The God of Peace. Phil. 4. 9. † Mat. 6. 14. When ye ftand, praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any, that your Father alfo which is in Heaven may forg.ke your Trefpaffes. Mar. 11. † 2 Tim. 2.12. If we fuffer, 25.2 Tim.1.16. The Lord givezowe shall also reign with him: mercy to the House of Onesipho- if we deny him, he also will rus; for he oft refreshed me, and deny us. 1 Pet. 3. 14. But and was not ashamed of my Chain. if ye suffer for Righteousness fake, Jam. 2. 13. For he shall have happy are ye: and be not afraid judgment without mercy, that of their Terros, neither be trouhath thewed no mercy; and mercy25 bled. rejoiceth against judgment. Pí. he. time of P † Luk. 6. 32. Bleffed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Mans fake. 9 *1 Pet. 4. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Chrift, happy are ye; for the Spirit of *† Pf. 15. 2. He that walk-35glory and of God resteth upon you: on fake. 12. a Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so perfecuted they the prophets which were before you. 13. Ye are the C d falt of the earth: but if the falt have lost his favour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be troden under foot of men. 14. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill, cannot be hid. 15. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a (1) bushel: but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16. Let your f e light so shine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorifie your Father which is in hea ven the Sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. * Mar. 4. 21. Is a candle on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. Pf. 35. 11. False witnesses did rise up, they laid to my Charge things which I knew not. Luk. 7. 33, 34. John Baptist came neither eat-5 ing Bread, nor drinking Wine; and ye say he hath a Devil. The Son of Man is come eating and drinking; and ye ay, behold a gluttonous Man, and a Wine-bibber, aroor putteth it under a Bed: But fet friend of publicans and finners. 2 brought to be put under a Bushel or under a Bed? and not to be set on a candlestick ? *Luk, 8. 16 No Man when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a Vessel teth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may fee the light Luk. 11.33. No Man when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in * Jam. 1. 2. My Brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. Act. 5. 41. They departed from the pre-15to a fecret Place, neither under a fence of the Council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his Name. Rom. 5. 3. We glory in tribulations. 23.31. b† Act. 7. 52. See on Mat. * Luk. 14. 34. See on Mar. 9.50. 20 d Prov. 4. 18. The Path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto25 the perfect day. Joh. 12. 36. While ye have light, believe in the light. that ye may be the children of light. Phil. 2. 15. That ye may be blameless and harmless,30 bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may fee the light. 1 Cor. 12. 7. The manifeStation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit withal. f*1 Pet. 2. 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak a gainst you as evil doers, they may by your good Works which they shall behold, glorifie God in the Day of Visitation. 1 Cor. 14. 25. Thus are the fecrets of his heart manifest and fo falling down on his face he (4) The Word in the Original fignifieth Measure containing about a Pint less than a Peck. ven. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the (2) Law or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to h fulfil. 18. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, i one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled. 19. Whofoever therefore shall break (3) one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the leaft in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall C2 he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a Truth. Joh. 15.8. Herein is my Father glorifed, that ye bear much Fruit, fo shall ye be my disciples. h Joh. 1.17. The Law was given by Mofes, but Grace and Truth Came by Jesus Chrift. Mat. 3. 15. Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Rom. 10. 4. Christ is the end of the Law for righte do Jam. 2. 10. Whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one Point, he is guil10ty of all. (2) By the Law and the Prophets are meant the great Rules of Life delivered in the Writings of Mofes and the Prophets, or in the Old Testament, more especially the Duties of the moral or natural Law. These our Lord affures us, he did not come to destroy or diffolve: It was not his design to free Men from the Obligation they were under to practise the moral Laws of God, but to fulfil and perfect them. This our Lord did, by living up to those Laws himself, and becoming thereby an Example to us, by freeing them from the corrupt Glofles which the Teachers among the Jews put upon them, and by expounding them in their fulleft Senfe, and according to their just Latitude, shewing, that they command not only an outward Obedience, but the Obedience even of the Mind and Thoughts, as appears from what our Lord delivers in the following Verses. These Laws have their Foundation in the reason and nature of Things, and therefore their Obligation will never ceafe. We may as well suppose that Heaven and Earth should pafs away, as that any of them fhould not be required of us. The Ceremonial Law was diffolved by the Coming of Christ. For he being come who was figured and reprefented by the Rites, Sacrifices, &c. they were of no further Ufe. But the natural or mo tal Law, which our Saviour has fumm'd up in these two Precepts, [the Love of God above all, and our Neighbour as our Selves] is as much in Force now as ever. It is as much a Rule of Life now, as ever it was. And though compleat and perfect Obedience is not made a Condition of Salvation, yet a fincere and univerfal one is. See A. Bp. Tillotson's Sermon on these Words, Vol. 4. (3) The Greck Word fignifies to loose or dissolve. As if our Lord had faid, if any Man shall be fo bold, as to free himself or others from the Obligation to obey these Commandments of the 111 do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no cafe enter into the kingdom of heaven. 21. Ye have heard that it was said by them [or, to them] of old time, Thou shalt, not kill: and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. 22. But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, (4) Racha, shalt be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall fay, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire. 23. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee; n 111 * 24. Exod. 20. 13. Thou shalt not kill. Repeated Deut. 5. 17. 11 † 1 Joh. 3. 15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know, that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 1 Mat. 23. 27, 28. Wo unto you scribes and pharifees, hypocrites; for ye are like unto whited Sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are with-5 in full of dead mens bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of byJam. 2. 20. But wilt thou pocrifie and Iniquity.. Rom.9.31. If-roknow, O vain man, that Faith rael which followed after the law of without works is dead? righteousness, hath not attained to the P. Mat. 8. 4. Offer the law of righteousness. Rom.10.3. gift that Mofes commanded. They being ignorant of God's righ- Mat. 23. 19. Ye fools and blind, teousness, and going about to esta-15for whether is greater, the Gift, blith their own righteousness, have or the Altar which fanctifieth the not fubmitted themselves to the Gift. righteousness of God. the moral Law, he shall be deemed unworthy of being a Member of my Kingdom, and have no Place in it, but be excluded from it. (4) Or, cursed Wretch. It is a Term of Reproach, and signifies a vain, empty, despicable, or witless Person. Some think that the words in the foregoing Part of the Verse, without cause, are to be understood here, because our Lord himself calls the Scribes and Pharifees Fools, Blind, whited Sepulchres, Serpents, Generation of Vipers, &c. But it may be justly doubted, whether we may imitate our Lord in fuch Instances, because he came with an extraordinary Commision from God, and knew to whom such Terms could be truly applied. Such reproachful words therefore should be butseldom, if they may at all be used by us. |