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2 For his holiness and high measure of mortification, vers. 8. What went you out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? John ¹was no such man. He was not at all addicted to the garb and pomp of the Court, but He had a raiment of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, Matth. 3. 4.

2 For his holinesse and high measure of mortification, vers. 8. What went you out to see? A man cloathed in soft raiment? John ¹was no such man. He was not at all addicted to the garbe and pompe of the Court, but He had a raiment of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loines, Matth. 3. 4.

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3 By comparing him with the former Prophets, with those Teachers that went before him, vers. 9. What went you out to see? ¹a Prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more then a Prophet. & v. 11. Verily I say unto you. Amongst ²them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater then John the Baptist. He gives him the precedency above all his predecessors; not in regard of the dignity of his office, but in respect of the perspicuity of his doctrine. Yet lest he might be proud himself, or others too much admire him, it is added by way of qualification in the end of the 11 verse, He that is least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater then he. Those Disciples and Apostles that should live after the resurrection of Christ, (from whence the Gospel or Kingdom of heaven is dated) should be greater then John, in regard of that full knowledge and clear manifestation