The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

Reason of the Order.

THE juncture of the two stories contained in this Section, is so clear from the transition of Mark and Luke from the one story to the other, that nothing needeth to be said more of that: and the subsequence of the former story of the two, to that that is contained in the former Section, namely about the calling of the Disciples is appa∣rently enough proved, by the entrance of Mark into this story, when he saith, They, that is, Christ and his new called Disciples (as his method shews it is to be understood) entred into Capernaum, &c. which thing we had occasion to observe also, in the proof of the order of the former Section. All the difficulty therefore about the order of this is about Matthews placing the story of the healing of Peters Mother in law: He hath laid it after the Sermon in the Mount, after the healing of the Leper, and after the healing of the Centurions Servant, whereas it is evident enough by the other Evangelists, that it was before any of these whichsoever was first. But the reason of his order may be ob∣served to be this. In chap. 4. 25. he had said that Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all maner of sickness: Here are two heads, that the Evangelist hath before him to insist upon, and to give the relation of, and these are the Doctrine of Christ and his miracles. He first beginneth with his doctrine, and so layeth down the Sermon in the Mount: and having done with that Doctrinal relation, he beginneth with the story of his miracles. And first he telleth of the healing of the Leper, which was the first miracle he wrought in his per∣ambulation of Galilee: then he relateth the healing of the Centurions Servant, which was the first miracle he wrought after his Sermon in the Mount: and being in mention of Capernaum, where the Centurions Servant was healed, he also speaketh of other mi∣racles done in the same Town, though not at the same time, and that was the healing of Peters mother in Law: and others that were brought to him, of several diseases: And this manner of Method, or flitting of stories, from their proper time and place, in∣to other times and places of his Gospel, upon such like reasons and occasions, as this, we shall find to be no strange thing with Matthew, as we go along, but exceeding usual and very common.