15 Then answer ed Peter and faid unto him, Declare unto us this parable. 16 And Jefus faid, Are ye alfo yet with fhall perish therefore in 15. Then faid Peter to 16. Jefus answered, Are out understanding? ye who ought to teach o 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entreth eth into the belly, and is caft out into the draught? in at the mouth, go thers, fo dull yet and flow 17. Do ye not yet conceive, how whatever a Man eateth, goeth into his Stomach, and paffeth through his Body; and being wholly corporeal, affecteth only his Body; without having * of it felf, merely for be- Sec 2 th ing of this or that kind, any effect upon the Man to make him better or worse? * on Ver. 11. 18, 19. But the things which come out of a Man, proceeding from his Heart and Mind; fuch as are wicked and difhoneft Intentions, bafe Contrivances and evil Speeches, Murder and Hatred, Adultery and Fornication and all kinds of Uncleanness, Theft and Fraud and all Cheats, Falfe Witness and Lyes, Prophaneness and the like; thefe do truly and properly defile a Man. 20. These, I fay, are the things, which make a Man unclean and finful in the fight of God; but to eat with unwashed hands, which does not at all affect the Mind, cannot make a Man unclean. 21. After thefe things, Jefus retired to the Borders of the Country of Tyre and Sidon. 22. And while he was there, there came a Heathen Woman of that Country, and cryed after him, faying; Lord, I have heard of the many Miracles you have wrought, and the good 22 And behold, a Woman of Canaan came out of the fame coafts, and cried un to him, faying,Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou fon of David; my daughter is grievously vexs ed with a devil. Works you have done; and I believe you to be a Teacher fent from God: I befeech you, have pity upon me, and heal my Daughter, who lies now in my House miferably afflicted with an evil Spirit. 23. Jefus, knowing the Womans Faith, and intending to reproach the Obftinacy of the Jews Unbelief, by giving an evident proof and trial of the Conftancy of this poor Gentile feemed at firft to despise and neglect her, by giving her no Answer at all: Infomuch that his Disciples wearied with her Importunity, defired him to fend her away with fome Anfwer or other, that they might not be troubled with her continually following them. * The Mercy of the Gofpel was not to be offered to the Gentiles, till after Chrift's Refurrection. the Defign of my coming into the World, is to make the first offers of Mercy to the Jews, who are the peculiar People of God; to convince them by my Miracles, and to reform them by my Freaching. 25. The Woman then came up to him, and kneeling down before him, faid; Lord, do not reject me, but grant me this one Favour. 25 But he answer ed and faid, It is not meet to take the childrens bread, and 26. Jefus answered: It is not fit to take that Bread, which God has defigned for his own Children, and give caft it to dogs. it to the Dogs; I muft not difpofe of those Favours to Gentiles and Strangers, which God has fent me to bestow among his own People the Jews. 27. The Woman replied: 'Tis true, Lord; yet as the Dogs are every where fuffered, to eat the Crumbs that fall from their Master's Table; fo out of that boun. teous Liberality, wherewith you difpenfe among the Jews the abundance of God's 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their mafters table. 28 Then 28 Then Jefus anfwered and faid unto her, woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. 29 And Jefus departed from thence and came nigh unto the fea of Galilee, and went up into a mountain, and fat down there. 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them thofe that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and caft them down at Jefus feet, and he healed them: Mercy, I beg you would not deny me this one fmall Petition, 28. At this Answer, Jefus, as it were furprized and vanquished with the greatnefs and conftancy of the Womans Faith, faid; O Woman, very extraordinary is your Faith and Truft in God, far greater than I have ordinarily found even among the Jews themselves; be it therefore done unto you, according to your defire. And her Daughter found to be healed at that very inftant. was 29. After this, Jefus departed from the Borders of Tyre and Sidon, and returned towards the Lake of Galilee; and he went up, and fat upon the top of a Hill. a 30. And the People who had feen his former Miracles, gathered again bout him, and brought to him all manner of difeafed Perfons, whether they were lame, or blind, or dumb, or maimed, or whatever other N 4 Infirmity |