Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Matthew 2:1-2 - some headings

I sometimes think we can be too addicted to sermon headings, but you have got to love Puritan style headings for noticing things in the text:

Matthew 2:1-2

e.g.

The time
The place
The persons
Their origin / nationality
Their occupation / status / roles / learning / skill / rich / kingly etc.
Their destinations
Their question
Their occasion - it's nature and location
Their object / errand
Their faith, their confessing of it (neither afraid of Herod nor ashamed of Christ), the grounds of it, their coming (a difficult, dangerous, distant journey without delay) and diligent seeking (seeing they came, sought, asked, found and worshiped) etc.
What they believe of Christ: his nature, his office, their relation to him
The star affected their eyes, minds, lips, feet, knees, hands etc.
Their worship with their bodies and with their goods

etc.

(After http://anglicanhistory.org/lact/andrewes/v1/sermon14.html and http://anglicanhistory.org/lact/andrewes/v1/sermon15.html)

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