2.Q. What learn you from this question, put by our blessed Lord’s Disciples to him?
A. That they believed either the transmigration, or pre-existence of souls; for otherwise how could a man sin before he was born?
3.Q. What learn you from Christ’s answer?
A. That all our infirmities and bodily afflictions, though we may not think so, are ordained by God for our good, and his glory.
5.Q. Should every christian be able to say thus for himself?
A. Yes, for we are commanded to let our light shine before men.
6.Q. Why did Christ put clay on the man’s eyes?
A. To shew the vanity of a tradition of the Jewish church, that it was unlawful to make clay on the Sabbath-day; as also to shew, that God sometimes works by the most unlikely means; and to represent the case of young converts, who before they come to feel the comforts of the Holy Ghost, by spiritual desertion and temptations have as it were their eyes put out.
7.Q. Why did Christ send the man to wash himself?
A. To make trial of his obedience; and farther to teach us, that if we will recover our spiritual sight, we must be workers together with God, in the appointed means.