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which feeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlafting life and I will raise him up at the laft day. 41. The Jews then f murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42. And they faid, Is not this Jefus the fon of Jofeph, whofe father and mother we know? how is it then that he faith, I came down from heaven? 43. Jefus therefore anfwered and faid unto them, Murmur not among your felves. 44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath fent me, draw him and I will raise him up at the last day. 45. It is written in the Prophets, And they fhall be all (1) taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard,

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God fo loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting Life. tJoh. 4. 14. -The Water that I fhall give him, fhall be in him a Well of Water springing up into everlasting Life.

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bour, and every Man his Brother, faying, Know the Lord: for they fall all know me, from the least of them unto the greateft of them, faith the Lord. Mic. 4. 2. Many Nations fhall come and fay, Come, let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord, and to the House of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us 10 of his Ways, and we will walk in his Paths.- + Heb. 8. 10, &c. This is the Covenant that I will make with the Houfe of Ifrael after thofe Days, faith the Lord; I will put my Laws into their Mind, and write them in their Hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they fhall be to me a People, &c. +Heb. 10. 16. This is the Covenant that 20 I will make with them after those

f Mat. II. 6. Bleffed is he whofoever fhall not be offended in me. ** Mat. 13. 55. Is not this the Carpenters Son? Is not his Mother called Mary ?- + Mar. 6. 3. Is not this the Carpenter, the Son of Mary, the Brother of James and 15 Jofes? † Luk. 4. 22. -Is not

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h Ver. 65. + Cant. 1. 4. Draw me, we will run after thee.

See the Note on Joh. 5. 40. **Ifa. 54. 13. All thy Children fhall be taught of the Lord, and great fhall be the Peace of thy Children. * Jer. 31. 34. They fhall

Days, faith the Lord; I will put my Laws into their Hearts, and in their Minds will I write them. 1 Joh. 2. 20, 27. Ye have an Unteach no more every Man his Neigh- 25 &tion from the holy One.

(1) The Prophets our Lord refers to, are Isaiah and Jeremiah, whofe Words are among the References. For the clearer Understanding of the we may obferve, that God may be faid to teach Men in divers

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Senfes; particularly thefe Two Ways. First, Immediately by himfelf. Secondly, Mediately by others. First, Immediately by himself: Thus he infpired the Prophets under the Old Testament, and the Apostles and others in the New. Secondly, God may be faid to teach Mediately by others: Thus the Apofles taught their Hearers, and thus the Paftors and Teachers in the Chriftian Church have ever fince taught Men the Will of God, and their Duty. And God has thought the Miniftry of Men to Men fo expedient, that when he vouchfafed to teach Men in an extra

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ordinary Way, he fent them to Men to be farther inftru&ted. Thus St. Paul, A&s 9. was fent to Ananias, and Cornelius, Acts 10. was directed to fend for St.Peter: And Paftors and Teachers were appointed by God,as well is Apostles and Prophets, for the Perfecting of the Saints, for the Work of the Ministry, for the Edifying of the Body of Christ: Till we all come in the Unity of the Faith, and of the Knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfett Man, unto the Measure of the Stature of the Fulness of Christ, Eph. 4. 11, 12, 13. Such a Perfection as is here defcribed, will, I am inclined to think, be part of the Happiness in the future State. If fo, there will be need of Paftors and Teachers to the End of the World. It is indeed faid by Je remy, They shall no more teach every Man his Neighbour, &c. But if we take thefe Words in the largest Senfe, there was nothing that answered them when the Spirit was in the most plentiful manner poured out upon the Church. I conceive therefore, that there is in them an ufual Hebraism, whereby negative Words are to, be understood comparatively, [See the Notes on Luk. 14. 12. and Job. 3. 2.] and then the Meaning is not, that in the Times of the Gospel, there fhall be no outward Teaching; but that there fhould be then a greater Measure of Divine Knowledge imparted to the World; fo that it would be easier to attain to the Knowledge of the Will of God, and the Duty he requires, and the Terms of Salvation, than at any Time before. This we know to be true in Fact; for now every illiterate Perfon, who is not wanting to himself, may acquire a fufficient Measure of Divine Knowledge.

There are divers other Ways by which God may be faid to teach Men, as, by the Works of Creation and Providence: by the Dictates of our own Confciences, which thofe Scriptures may refer to, which speak of God's putting his Laws in our Minds, and writing them in our Hearts, &c. by the Example of Chrift, to which the Apoftle refers, 1 Thef: 4.9: Ye your felves are taught of God to love one another. We have, moreover, the Divine Inftructions contained in the holy Scriptures, by reading of which, Men may be faid to be taught of God. Laftly, God may be faid to teach Men by the Motions of his Holy Spirit; for that the good Spirit of God often fuggefts many ferious and inftructive Thoughts to the Minds of Men, exciting and perfwading them to follow after thofe Things that make for their Peace, cannot be doubted by any who are acquainted with the ho ly Scriptures.

Every understanding Chriftian will allow, that God may, if he pleases, and when he pleases, immediately teach Men again, as he taught the Prophets and Apostles: Whether the Reafon, why the Chriftian Church Now, does not enjoy the extraordinary Gifts and Operations of the Spirit, which it did in the Times of the Apoftles, and for fome Time after wards, be, because the Scriptures are received and owned by Chriftians, and therefore fuch extraordinary Affiftances are not wanted by them or whether it be, that God with-holds them from us in Anger and Di pleasure, and to punish us for our Coldness and Formality, our Infidelity and Prophaneness, may deferve to be confidered: [See Mr. Thomas Bromley of extraordinary Difpenfations.] This we may depend upon, that God does not require Men to receive any as Prophets and infpired, without giving them fufficient Evidence of their being fent by him. I may add, that tho Miracles alone are not fufficient, yet God in his feveral Difpenfations feems to have made them always a Part of the Evidence he has given to Perfons extraordinarily Commiffioned by him. We do not indeed read of any Miracles wrought by John Baptift; but that, I think, will not prove that he did

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t. 11. 27. Neither knowMan the Father, fave the 1 he to whom the Son will bim. † Luk. 15. 22. No oweth who the Son is, but er; and who the Father is, Son, and he to whom the Son eal him. Joh. 1. 18. No rath feen God at any Time; y begotten Son, which is in Om of the Father, he hath him. † Joh 7.29. But I n, for I am from him, and me. † Joh. 8. 19. -Ye know me, nor my Father: 15 d known me, ye fhould have my Father allo. See on Joh.

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St. JOHN VI. flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54. Whofo eateth my flefh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raife him up at the laft day. 55. 55. For my flefh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, b dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57. As the liv ing Father hath fent me, and I live by the Father: fo he that eateth me, even he fhall live by me. 58. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread fhall live for ever. 59. These things faid he in the fy nagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 6o. Many therefore" of his difciples, when they had heard this, faid, This is an hard faying, who can hear it. 61. When Jesus knew in himself, that his difciples murmured at it, he faid unto them, Doth this offend you? 62. What and if ye fhall fee the Son of man afcend up where he was before? 63. It is the fpirit that quickneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I fpeak unto you, they are fpirit, and they are life. 64. But there are fome of you that believe not. For Jefus knew from the beginning, who they were that believed Lot, and who fhould betray him. 65. And he faid, Therefore faid I unto you, that no man can come unto me, ex

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bleffed it, and brake it, and gave it to the Disciples, and faid, Take, eat; this is my Body. This is my Blood of the New-Teftament.—

at Ver. 27. t Joh. 4.14. Whofoever drinketh of the Water that I fhall give him, fhall never thirst: but the Water that I fhall give him, fhall be in him a Well of Water fpringing up into everlasting Life.

b Joh. 14. 20. At that Day ye fhall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Joh. 17. 23. I in them, and thou in me.- 1 Joh. 3. 24. He that keepeth his Commandments, dwel leth in him.- 1 Joh. 4. 13, 16. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. God is Love, and he that dwelleth in Love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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ht 2 Cor. 3.6. Who alfo hath made us able Minifters of the New Teftament, not of the Letter, but of the Spirit; for the Letter kil leth, but the Spirit giveth Life.

it Joh. 2. 24, 25. Jefus did not commit himself unto them, becaufe he knew all Men, And needed not that any fhould teftifie of Man; for he knew what was in Man. Joh. 13. 11. He knew who fhould betray him.

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ept it were 1 given unto him of my Father. 66. T rom that time many of his difciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67. Then faid Jesus into the twelve, Will ye alfo go away? 68. Then Sinon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom fhall we go? thou aft the m words of eternal life. 69. And " we believe, and re sure that thou art that Chrift the Son of the living God. '0. Jesus answered them, Have not I chofen you twelve, nd one of you is a P devil? 71. He fpake of Judas Iscariot, he fon of Simon; for he it was that fhould betray him, beng one of the twelve.

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FTER these things, Jefus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews fought to kill him. 2. Now the Jews feaft of tabernacles was at 3. His brethren therefore faid unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy difciples alfo may fee the works that thou doft.

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your done these things on the SabbathDay. Therefore the Jews fought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but faid also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

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