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NOw after two days he [ 43] departed thence, and went into Galilee: not directly unto his own City Na∣zareth; for, Iesus himself testi∣fied, [ 44] that a Prophet hath no honor in his own Country; but He came again into Cana [ 46] of Galilee where he had made the Water Wine.
I prais and magnify thy Name,
O my Gracious Redeemer, for this prudential Dispensation of thy Ministry, not brooking to mis-spend thy Doctrin and Mi∣racls upon such as would ren∣der them useless by their Neg∣lect or Dis-esteem; but directing the Labors of thy Lov to those who, by having du Regard ther∣unto, were most likely to re∣verence thy Person and reap the intended Benefit of thy marvellous Works: for, when [ 45] thou wast com into Galilee, the Galileans of those parts recei∣ved thee, having seen all the things that thou hadst don at Ierusalem, for they also were there at the Feast. Lord, let not any prejudice of Familiarity, which commonly breeds Con∣temt; or Envy, which unreaso∣nably surmiseth the Advance∣ment
of our Equals or Acquain∣tance insupportabl; or foolish Custom, which is apt to set an higher valu upon any forein unknown Commodity than on the more useful Product of our own Growth and Neighbor∣hood; hinder my paying the du Respect or making a reli∣gious Improvement of those Gifts and Graces wherwith thou shalt think fit to qualify any of my Country-men or fellow-Citizens to do good in his Generation. And render (I beseech thee) the manifest Evidences of thy Grace no less effectual at this day to creat in me that Esteem and Reverence which is du to Thee in thy Members, than the supernatural Operations of thy Power, ex∣hibited before their Eys in for∣mer times, were available to pre∣pare a way for thine honorabl
Reception among the Galileans; that receiving those who bear thine Image, as wel with a glad Heart as a cheerful Aspect, thou mayst think or make me wor∣thy of thy beätifick Presence for ever.
S. Joh. 4. 43, — 46,