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In the words, three Things are observable.

1. The different Form and Course of Life wherein John and Christ appeared. 2. Their Censures both of John and Jesus. 3. The receiving of the Gospel by the unprejudiced.

1. The different Form and Course of Life wherein Iohn and Christ appeared. 2. Their Censures both of Iohn and Iesus. 3. The receiving of the Gospel by the unprejudiced.

1. The different Course of Life wherein John and Christ appeared: John came neither eating, nor drinking: that is, lived in a strict austere Course of Life, not after the ordinary Diet of Men; for we read he had his Raiment of Camels Hair, and a leathern Girdle about his Loins, and his Meat was Locusts and wild Honey: But the Son of Man came eating and drinking, that is, using the ordinary Diet of Men, and eating promiscuously with all company, in a more free use of the Creatures, taking the fare as he found it, and conversing with all sorts of Men in a familiar Course of Life: Sometimes with Publicans, as Zacheus: sometimes with Pharisees, as Simon, Luke 7. He observed ⟨p. 258⟩no such abstinency, but ate Meats indifferently: sometimes he had nothing but barely Bread and Water; sometimes he was at Feasts, and using Wine, and conversed with Men indifferently.

1. The different Course of Life wherein Iohn and Christ appeared: Iohn came neither eating, nor drinking: that is, lived in a strict austere Course of Life, not after the ordinary Diet of Men; for we read he had his Raiment of Camels Hair, and a leathern Girdle about his Loins, and his Meat was Locusts and wild Hony: But the Son of Man came eating and drinking, that is, using the ordinary Diet of Men, and eating promiscuously with all company, in a more free use of the Creatures, taking the fare as he found it, and conversing with all sorts of Men in a familar Course of Life: Sometimes with Publicans, as Zacheus: sometimes with Pharisees, as Simon,