Matthew 1

I shall wave the context, and only speak of that which concerns our present purpose: having discoursed of the covenant of grace, I shall speak now of the Mediator of the covenant, and the restorer of lapsed sinners, Jesus the Mediator of the covenant. There are several names and…

Christ is called the Horn of Salvation (Luke 1:69). He saves from sin (Matthew 1:21), from wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10). To save is a flower that belongs only to his crown (Acts 4:12).

Quest. How shall I know I am delivered from hell? Resp. 1. Those whom Christ saves from hell, he saves from sin (Matthew 1:21). He shall save his people from their sins.

Not, that that should be his name whereby he should be called in this World; but that this should be the condition of his Person, he should be God with us; God in our nature. So are the words expounded (Matthew 1:21, 22, 23). That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost;…

In this state and condition all mankind, had they been left without divine aid and help, must have perished eternally. Sixthly, that God out of his infinite goodness, grace and love to mankind, sent his only Son to save and deliver them out of this condition (Matthew 1:21): "You…

Thirdly, if it be for the safety of his life in a good cause. So Moses, Exodus 2:14-15, fled into the land of Midian, and there stayed, when Pharaoh sought his life: And Christ himself fled with his Father and Mother into Egypt, from the fury of Herod, Matthew 1. The like may be…

But where this was done by divine warranty, it was doctrinal and prophetically instructive. So was it in that great name given to our Lord Jesus Christ himself, namely, Immanuel, which the Evangelist remembers and gives us the interpretation thereof (Matthew 1:23). Now whether t…

(1) To mind us of the signification of it, from where the reason of his assumption of it was taken. Jesus signifies a Savior; and he was called Jesus, because he was to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). He therefore concerning whom all these things are affirmed, is…

And, (1.) The notion of the word includes in it a supposition of some evil or danger that we are delivered from. This is sin with its consequents of misery, in the curse of the law and the wrath to come; therefore it is said of Christ that he saves his people from their sins (Ma…

To be conformed thereto, is this glory, and happiness in your account? Christ came to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21), and to unloose, or destroy the work of the Devil in them (1 John 3:8), to set men at liberty from sin, as well as to deliver them from wrath to c…

And therefore by this confession the church of God is distinguished from all other companies of men in the world which believe not, as Pagans, heretics, Atheists, Turks, Jews, and all other infidels. This name Jesus was given to the son of God by the Father, and brought from hea…

And then the other word [Lord] is proper to Christ's Mediatorship, see (1 Corinthians 8:5). There remains but Christ's name [Jesus Christ]: the word [Jesus] is opened (Matthew 1:21): You shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins, and it implies here…

Which therefore can be no other, but that supreme authority, lordship, and dominion over all things and creatures, which was then committed to him by the Father. For the name Jesus was given Him in the very beginning of his humiliation (Matthew 1:21, 25 and 2:1 and Luke 2:21), b…

With much prayer, for we cannot of ourselves find out the reason of them; being shallow creatures, we cannot find out those infinite wise methods God observes in the managing of them; but if we seriously set to work, and seek God in it, God may inform us, and make them intelligi…

When God is reckoning up his own people, he leaves out those that have been noted for idolatry. As among the tribes that were sealed (Revelation 8) those idolatrous tribes of Ephraim and Dan are left out, and in the genealogy of Christ (Matthew 1) those princes that were chiefly…

Dwelling together, is to be ordinarily in a dwelling place, for the better performance of each other mutual duties. [Matthew 1:18. For his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child by the holy Ghost. 1 Corinthians 7:10. And to the m…

Use. It serves to vindicate this truth from an error and mistake of the Arminians, who, as they overthrow the design of grace in the salvation of sinners in other steps thereof; so do they in this, in making Christ's death to precede Election, and Election to follow it; But, as…

(Mark 14:14): "This is my blood of the New Testament, that is shed for many," as (Romans 5:15): "Through the offence of one, many were dead" — that is, all were dead. So the sheep of Christ (John 10:11), the scattered sons of God (John 11:52), his people (Matthew 1:21), his bret…

Let Israel wait for the Lord, for with him is mercy and plenteous redemption, and he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities (verse 7, 8). And he is therefore called Jesus (Matthew 1:21). And notable is that expression (Hosea 14:2): Take away all our iniquities, and receive…

Now we must diligently observe the words, because both Hebrews and Christians interpret this place amiss. Saint Jerome expounds it of Jesus Christ, because he descended from the Moabites, of whom Ruth came (Ruth 1:4; Matthew 1:5) and the most part of Christian expositors follow…

The word conceive is enough to set aside the dream of Marcion and Manichaeus: for it is easy to gather from it that Mary brought forth not an ethereal body or phantom, but the fruit which she had previously conceived in her womb. You shall call his name Jesus The reason of the n…

Matthew 1:1-17 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

For it did not happen without the undoubted Providence of God, that the Evangelists leave out the whole period which Christ spent in private, and pass at once from his earliest infancy to his thirtieth year, when he was openly exhibited to the world, invested with his public cha…

And even the adverb until extends no farther than to the time which goes before. Joseph did not know his wife until she brought forth Christ, (Matthew 1:25.) By these words Scripture does not mean, that after Christ had been born they lived together as husband and wife, but only…

(5.) The Lord Christ being proposed to Sinners in the Gospel, and their acceptance or receiving of him being urged on them, it is withal declared for what end he is so proposed. And this is in general to save them from their Sins, Mat. 1. 21. or the Wrath to come whereof they ar…

It is true, the great instance of their ministery was given in and about the person of Christ as head of the Church. They declared his conception and nativity (Matthew 1:20; Luke 1:35; Luke 2:11, 12). They ministred to him after his temptation (Matthew 4:11).

To make this sign yet the more evident, God gives it forth directly in a word of promise (Isaiah 7:10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16): "Moreover the Lord spake to Ahaz, saying, ask you a sign of the Lord your God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above; but Ahaz said, I wil…

And this seems to have been kept in tradition among them. And for this cause does Matthew expresly mention her name in his rehearsal of the genealogie of Christ (Matthew 1:5). For it being a tradition among the Jews, that this was the end of the writing of her story, whereon the…

And the Prophet urgeth it on them (Jeremiah 7:9, 10): Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, &c and come and stand, &c. and say, we are delivered to do all these abominations? As if God had no other way to show himself merciful, but by saving sinners in their sins; whereas we…

2. Quest. Why is it then said the first, when no other commandments with promise follow? Answ. This particle (first) has not always reference to some other following, but is often simply taken, to show that none was before it: so is the word firstborn used in the law: and so Chr…

Jesus the Mediator saves his People from their Sins. Matthew 1:21. as well as delivers from the Wrath to come.

1. The first and most general Character which our Lord Jesus Christ assumes, is that of a Savior, by which Name he is most frequently called in the New Testament. This is the very Signification of his proper Name Jesus, in the Hebrew, Matthew 1:21. Thou shalt call his Name Jesus…

For our Love to the Law of God and a hearty Inclination to keep it, is a great Part of the very Salvation which the Gospel provides for sinful Men. Jesus Christ the Son of God is become our Saviour, not only to save us from God's Wrath, 1 Thessalonians 1:10. but also to save us…

4. The death of Christ falls more directly upon this benefit, exemption from sin. "He shall save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). "God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities" (Acts 3:26) — not troubl…

But now on the contrary suppose a man high in honor, wallowing in wealth, spending his time and wealth in ease and pleasure, but after all this God will bring him to judgment, the world is his friend, but God is his enemy, and he is all his life time subject to bondage, (Hebrews…

Meaning thereby Christ actually exhibited or born in the flesh, which was the beginning of the kingdom of the Messiah. 3. For the benefits which we have by Christ on this side heaven; as the pardon of sin, and the renovation of our natures, these are called salvation, as (Matthe…

1 That Christ's sufferings were for sinners: Jesus Christ himself suffered, but he did not suffer for himself; for he was without sin (Hebrews 4:15 and 7:26), neither was guile found in his mouth, nor any misbecoming word, when he suffered, though it were a provoking time (1 Pet…

Repentance is not enough, for righteousness is not by repentance, but by faith (Philippians 3:9). Prayers and tears, sighs and sorrows are not our Saviour; it is Jesus only that saves from sin (Matthew 1:21). None can put our sins to death, but he that died for our sins.

God is love, and judgment his strange work; yet sin makes him out of love with men, and in love with their destruction at last; so though he delights not in the death of a repenting, yet he does in the death of an impenitent sinner. 5. It proves sin the worst and greatest of evi…

By brethren we do not understand brethren by place, those who are of the same country or nation, such are called brethren (Romans 9:3; Acts 7:23, 25). Nor do we understand brethren by race, those who are descended of the same parents: such are called brethren (Matthew 1:2). But…

So Paul constantly disputes, If by the offense of one sin entered to [illegible], much more by the death and obedience of our Savior righteousness entered to eternal life. And therefore it was that our Savior was pleased to receive our nature even from the vilest of sinners, tha…

Matthew 1:21. He shall save His people from their sins. Application was the second part of man's recovery, whereby all that good which Christ has purchased for his people is made theirs.

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Christ shed his blood to wash off our filth; the cross was both an altar and a fountain. Jesus Christ died not only to save us from wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10) but to save us from sin (Matthew 1:21). Out of his side came water, which signifies our cleansing, as well as blood, w…

Unbelief is more contrary to the Spirit, than carnal sins, being most contrary to the flower and bloomings of the Spirit in his sweetest operations, and most against the Mediator-love of Christ. For as by the fall, Christ has a new office to redeem us (Matthew 1:21; 1 Timothy 1:…

And how soon the will is broken and dead, then is the man broken, dead and crucified with Christ. Much will, much life of sin: See (John 5:40), (Luke 19:14), (Mark 6:25), (Matthew 1:19), (Mark 15:15), (Acts 24:27), (Acts 25:9), (Luke 10:29), (Revelation 22:17). All will, argues…

Now these divine dreams were caused in men, either immediately by God himself, as the former places show; or by means of some good angel. In this latter kind was Joseph often admonished in dreams what to do, by the ministry of an angel; as (Matthew 1:20) and (Matthew 2:13, 19).…

Christ then by his death merited and purchased for all those for whom he died all those things which scripture assigns as the fruits and effects of his death. These may be referred to two heads: first, privative — deliverance from the hands of our enemies (Luke 1:74), from the w…

So the first part of the proposition is clear from scripture. Now Christ is expressly and pointedly said to die for those on the one side: for his people (Matthew 1:21); his sheep (John 10:11-12, 14); his church (Acts 20:28; Ephesians 5:25); as distinguished from the world (Roma…

In the first place they are in the front of the parable of seeking the lost sheep, in the other, they are in the close of the recovery of lost Zaccheus, and in both places set forth the end of Christ's coming, which was to do the will of his Father, by the recovery of lost sinne…