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any thing, nor make any observations but what are natural and easy, and seem to offer themselves.

And if the pains I have taken shall prove a help to any one's reading this glorious part of our Lord's admirable life with understanding and affection, and make him any thing better than he was before, I shall think them well bestowed, and they have fully answered my end.

All therefore that I further desire of the reader is this, that he would peruse this little book not like a critic but a Christian; and join with me in supplicating God for his blessing upon what is here offered to the public for his service: that the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, may be acceptable in his sight, who is our strength and our Redeemer 8.

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PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS

UPON

OUR SAVIOUR'S MIRACLES.

THE FIRST MIRACLE.

Water turned into Wine.

JOHN ii. 1-3.

There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine, &c.

WHOSE marriage, or nuptial entertainment, this

was, it is not material to inquire, though some think it was St. John's the Evangelist, who was our Saviour's cousin-german; for they suppose that either the bride or bridegroom must be some near relation of our Lord's, since the blessed Virgin is said to be there before Jesus and his disciples were invited; none of whom, much less all, can be imagined to go so far as from Nazareth to Cana of Galilee to the wedding of a stranger. But that St. John was the man is mere conjecture, and so let it pass; only with this remark, that the story seems to be framed with an ill design: for, lest our Saviour's presence, and his doing his first miracle at a wedding, should con

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