A Paraphrase on the Gospel of St. Matthew

to a Commentary, and trouble the Reader with repeating what others had said already. Through the whole I have fincerely endeavoured to represent the DoArine of our Saviour in its Original Simplicity, without respect to any Controverfies in Religion; and wheresoever I may have mistaken the Sense of the Evan gelift, I shall be always desirous to be better informed.

The Paraphrafe upon St. Mark was intended to have been published with this: But the Edition of this being hastned, St. Mark and St. Luke are designed to be published together.

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CHAP. II.

The History of the Magi, or Wife Men coming

to worship Chrift, and of Herods Cruelty and

Death.

CHAP. III.

John the Baptist's Life and Office, ver. 1.

Baptism of Christ, ver. 13.

CHAP. IV.

The

Christ's Fasting and Temptation, ver. 1. His

beginning to Preach, ver. 12. His choosing

Apostles, ver. 18.

CHAP. V.

Christ Sermon on the Mount, beginning with the

Beatitudes, ver. 1. Chrift's Disciples to be

Examples to the World, ver. 13. The Gof-

pel fulfils and improves the Law, ver. 17.

In the case of Murder and Anger, ver. 21.

In the cafe of Adultery and Luft, ver. 27. In

the case of Divorces, ver. 31. In the case

of Swearing, ver. 33. In the case of Re-

venge, ver. 38. Of loving our Enemies,

ver. 43.

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CHAP. VI.

Of Alms, ver. 1. Of Prayer, ver. 5. Of

Fafting, ver. 16. Of the Opposition between

this World and the next, ver. 9.

CHAP. VII.

Of Genforiousness and rash Judgment, ver. I.

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Of importunate Prayer, ver. 7. Of Equity,

ver. 12. Of the difficulty of a Religious

Life, ver. 13. Of False Teachers, ver. 15.

Of the neceffity of Obedience, ver. 21. The

conclufion of Christ's Sermon, ver. 28.

CHAP. VIII.

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A Leprous Person healed, ver. 1. A Centurions

Servant healed, ver. 5. Peter's Mother-in-

law healed, ver. 14. The Poverty of Christ,

ver. 18. Of Perseverance, ver. 21. A

Tempest miraculously stilled, ver. 23. Devils

caft out of a Man, and entring into Swine,

ver. 28.

CHAP. IX.

A Palfie cured; and Chrift's Power of remitting

Sins, occasionally afferted, ver. 1. The call-

ing of Matthew, and Christ's eating with

Publicans and Sinners, ver. 9. The Disciples

not fasting defended, ver. 14. A Woman

raised from the dead, and a bloody flux cured,

ver. 18. Two blind Men cured, ver. 27.

A dumb Man cured, ver. 32. The want of

good Ministers, ver. 35.

CHAP. Χ.

Christ's Instructions to his Apostles, at their being

fent out to Preach, ver. 1. The Bleffing of

those who receive them, ver. 40.

Christ's Answer to John the Baptist's Question,
who he was, ver. 1. Christ's testimony of
John the Baptist, ver. 7. The Jews perverse

ness in judging of John and Christ, ver. 16:

Chrift's upbraiding the Jewish Cities for their

impenitence, ver. 20. The Wisdom of God

in revealing the Gospel to the simple, ver. 25.

Christ's invitation of Sinners to embrace the

Gospel, ver. 27.

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The Disciples plucking and eating Corn on the

Sabbath-day vindicated, ver. 1. A withered

hand healed, ver. 9. A blind and dumb Man

healed, ver. 22. Blasphemy against the Holy

Ghost, ver. 31. Hypocrifie of the Pharisees,

ver. 33. Their unseasonableness in asking a

fign from Heaven, ver. 38. Obedience the

chief thing respected by Christ, ver. 46.

CHAP. XIII.

Parable of the fower, ver. 1. Why Chrift Spake
in Parables, ver. 10, Parable of the Tares,
ver. 24. Of the Mustard-Seed, ver. 31. Of
the Leaven, ver. 33. The explication of these
Parables, ver. 19. and 34. Parable of the
hidden Treasure, ver. 44. Of the Pearl,
ver. 45. Of the Fishing-Net, ver.47. The