Land of Ifrael: for they are * dead which fought th young child's life. 21. And he arose, and took the youn child and his mother, and came into the Land of Ifrae 22. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Ju dea, in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid t go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in dream; he turned asides into the Parts of Galilee 23. And he came and dwelt in a City called Nazareth that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the pro S phets, " He shall be called a Nazarene. N those days came : : * John the Baptift, preaching in Wilderness of Judea, 2. And saying, Repent ye: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. 3. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Efaias faying, The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his Paths straight. 4. And the fame John had his Raiment f of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loyns, and his Meat was & Locufts r Exod. 4. 19. And the Lord faid unto Mofes in Midian, Go, return into Egypt, for all the Men are dead which fought thy Life. S Matt. 3. 13. † Judg. 13. 5. For lo, thou shalt conceive and bear a Son, and no Razor shall come on his Head: for the Chila thall be a Nazarite unto God from the Womb. u Hai. II. I. And there shall come forth a Rod out of the Stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my Daughter to Wife. Dan. 2.44. In the Days of these Kings shall the God of Hea5 ven set up a Kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the Kingdom shall not be left to o ther People, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. *If. 40.3. Luk. 3. 4. Joh. 1.23. See on Mar. 1. 3. e† Mar. 1. 6. John was clothed with Camels hair, and with a 15girdle of a Skin about his Loyns: and he did eat Locusts and wild Honey. a Mar. 1. 4. John did Baptize in the Wilderness, and Preach the Baptifm of Repentance, for the remition of Sins. * Luk. 3. 2. -The Word of God came unto20Girdle of Leather about his Loyns,一 John the Son of Zacharias in the Joth. 15. 16. Caleb faid, he that miteth Kirjath-fepher, and † † 2 King. 1. 8. He [Elijah, was an hairy Man, and girt with a f Zech. 13. 4. Neither shall they [the Prophets] wear a rough Garment to deceive. * Locusts and wild honey. 5. Then h went out to him Jerufalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6. And were i baptized of him in Jor⚫dan, confeffing their Sins. 7. But when he faw many of the Pharifees and Sadducees come to his Baptifm, he faid unto them, * O generation of Vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the Wrath to come. 8. Bring forth therefore fruits * meet m for Repentance [Or, answerable to amendment of Life]. 9. And think not to say within your selves, we haven Abraham to our Father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these Stones to raife up children unto Abraham. 10. And now also the Ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore。 every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewen down, and cast into the fire. Lev. 11. 22. Even these of them ye may eat: the Locust after his kind. 11. I indeed P baptize you vered us from the Wrath to come. in Act. 26. 20. Shewed that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repent † Mar. 1. 5. There went out unto him all the Land of 5 ance. Luk. 3. 8. Bring forth fruits Judea, and they of Jerufalem, and were all Baptized of him in the River Jordan, confefssing their Sins. n * Αθ. 19. 4, 18. Then faid Paul, John verily baptizedio with the Baptism of Repentance, saying unto the People, that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. † Many that believed came, 15Ifaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom and confefsed, and shewed their Deeds. ** Matt. 12. 34. O generation of Vipers, how can ye being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaketh Matt. 23.33. Ye Serpents, ye generation of Vipers, how can ye escape the Damnation of Hell! † Luk. 3. 7. 1 therefore worthy of Repentance. Joh. 8. 33, 39. They answered him, we be Abraham's feed, and were never in bondage to any Man: how sayest thou, ye shall be made free ? - Abraham is our Father. Matt. 8. 11. Many shall come from the east and west, and shall fit down with Abraham, and of Heaven. † Act. 13. 25. Men and Brethren, Children of the Stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the 20word of this Salvation sent. ** See on Matt. 7. 19. P* Mar. 1. 8. I indeed have Baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the holy 25 Ghost. *Luk.3.16. John answered, faying to them all, I indeed baptize you with Water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose Shoes I am not worthy to unloose : he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with Fire, Joh. 1. 15, 26. † Rom. 5. 9. Much more then being justified by his Blood, we shall be saved from wrath to come. † Thet. 1. 10. And to wait for his Son from Heaven, 3 whom he raised from the Dead, eyen Christ Jesus, which hath deli 4 you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall 9 baptize you with the holy Ghost, (1) and with Fire. 12. Whofe Fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his : floor, with the holy Ghost. † Acts 19.4 Then faid Paul, John verily baptized with the Baptism of Repentance, saying unto the People, that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Chrift Jesus. 26. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me. John an-5 swered them, saying, I baptize with water; but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not. Joh. 7. 38, 39. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath faid, out of his belly shall flow rivers of Living Water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him, should receive : for the holy Ghost was not yet given, be-15 may abide the Day of his coming? † Ifa. 4.4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of rothe Daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the Blood of Jerufalem from the midst thereof, by the Spirit of Judgment, and the Spirit of Burning. † Mal. 3. 2. But who cause that Jesus was not yet glorified.) Ifai. 44. 3. I will pour Water on him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry Ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed, and20fent forth the spirit of his son into and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers sope. Gal 4. 6. Because ye are Sons, God hath your Hearts, crying Abba, Father. Tit. 3.5. According to his Mercy he faved us, by the washing of r my blessing upon thine Offspring. † Acts 1.5. John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost not many regeneration, and renewing of the Days hence. Acts 2 4. They were 25holy Ghoft. all filled with the holy Ghost, and beLuk. 3. 17. Mal. 3. 3. gan to speak with other Tongues as And he shall fit as a refiner of Silthe Spirit gave them utterance, ver: and he shall purifie the Sons Acts 11. 16. Then remembered I of Levi, and purge them as Gold and the Word of the Lord, how that he30Silver, that they may offer unto the faid, John indeed baptized with Lord an offering in Righteousness. Water: but ye shall be baptized (1) The Word and does not always join Sentences together, but is sometimes used as an explicative, and denotes that the Words after it explain those that are before it. So that the Sense of this Place seems to be, He shall baptize you with the holy Ghost, which is like Fire. As Fire refines Metals, and enlightens the Place where it is; so the holy Spirit enlightens the Minds of Men, and purges and cleanses their Souls. Or the Baptist may allude to that extraordinary Effusion of the holy Ghost which was to fall on the Apostles on the Day of Pentecost, whose appearance was like unto Fire, Act. 2. 3. And that Baptism with the holy Ghost and with Fire signifie one and the same thing, is manifest, because when our Lord discoursed on this Subject with Nicodemus, Joh. 3.5. He mentions the being born of Water and of the Spirit, but says nothing of Fire. floor, and gather his wheat into the garner : but he will bun up the chaff with unquenchable Fire. 13. Then cometh Jesus from Year of our Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized a Job.21.18. They are as Stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the Storm carrieth away. S Mar 1.9. It came to pass in those Days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was bap tized of John in Jordan. * Luk. 3. 21. Now when all the People were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened. † Matt. 2. 22. ৮ CHAP. from Heaven, which faid, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am wellpleased. † Joh. 1. 32, 33. And John bare record, saying, I saw the spirit 5 descending from Heaven like a Dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not, but he that sent me to baptize with Water, the same said unto me, Upon whom rothou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the fame is he which baptizeth with the holy Ghost. Ifa. 11. 2. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the b† Jah. 12. 28. Father, gloriSpirit of Wisdom and Understand-15fie thy name. Then came there a ing, the Spirit of Counsel and Voice from heaven, saying, I have Might, the Spirit of Knowledge, both glorified it, and will glorifie and of the fear of the Lord. † Ifa. it again. 42. 1. Behold my Servant whom I † Pf. 2.7. I will declare the uphold, mine elect in whom my1odecree: the Lord hath faid unto Soul delighteth: I have put my me, Thou art my Son, this Day have Spirit upon him, he shall bring I begotten thee. † Ifa. 42. 1. The forth Judgment to the Gentiles. Words are under ver.16. † Matt. 12~ Luk. 3. 22. And the holy Ghost de- 18 Behold, my Servant whom I scended in a bodily shape like aishave chosen, my beloved in whom Dove upon him, and a voice came my (2) These Words imply that St. John knew who our Lord was when he came to him. It may therefore be asked, How is this consistent with his faying, Joh. 1. 31. that he knew him not? To this it is answered, that he knew him not personally, having never conversed with him; but that being a Prophet, and full of the holy Ghost even from his Mother's womb, Luk. 1. 15. it was revealed to him who he was, at the time our Lord came to be baptized of him. F ! HEN was CHAP. IV. a I Wilderness to be spirit into th 2. And Jesus led up of the tempted of the Devil. when he had (1) fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3. And when the tempte came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, com mand that these stones be made Bread. 4. But he anfwered and faid, It is written, a Man (2) shall not live by Bread Master: left peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some Mountain, or into some Valley.- Ezek. 3. 14. So the Spirit lifted me up, my Soul is well pleased: I will 2. In the Visions of God, brought he me to the Land of Ifrael, and set me upon a very high Mountain, by which was, as the frame of a City on the South. Acts 8. 39, 40. am well pleased. † Luk. 9. 35. There sus from the power of Darkness, and Philip, that the Eunuch saw him no more. -But Philip was found at Azotus. Heb. 4. 15. We have not an 15high Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our Infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without Sin. a Mar. 1. 12. And immedi-20 ately the Spirit driveth him into the Wilderness. * Luk. 4. 1. Jesus being full of the holy Ghost, 一 was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness. 25 d * Deut. 8. 3. - Man doth not live by Bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth Marn live. Wisd. 16. 26. That thy Children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know that it is not the growing of Fruits that nourisheth Man: but that it is thy Word which preserveth them that put 1 King. 18. 12. It shall 1 (1) Exod. 34. 28. Deut. 9. 9, 18. 1 King. 19. 8. Moses and Elijah fasted forty Days and forty Nights. (2) The Sense of these Words, according to the learned Surenhusius in his excellent Work, wherein he accounts for the Difficulties in the Texts cited in the New Testament out of the Old, is this: Although I am very hungry, yet it is better to obey God, and to trust in his Word, than |