Luke 10

Ans. They have great immunities: kings' children have great privileges and freedoms; they do not pay custom (Matthew 17:6). God's children are privileged persons; they are privileged from the hurt of everything (Luke 10:19). Nothing shall by any means hurt you.

This perseverance is comfort: 1. In the loss of worldly comforts. When our goods may be taken away, our grace cannot (Luke 10:42). Mary has chosen the better part, which cannot be taken from her.

There shall no evil befall you: it is not said no trouble, but no evil. God's children are privileged persons; they are privileged from the hurt of everything (Luke 10:19). Nothing shall by any means hurt you.

God has promised to supply the weak Christian with so much grace as he shall need, till he comes to Heaven. Beside the two pence which the good Samaritan left to pay for the cure of the poor wounded man, he passed his word for all that he should need beside (Luke 10:35). So, Chr…

Every injury done to a saint, Christ takes as done to him in Heaven; every temptation is a striking at Christ, and he is touched with the feeling of our temptations. 2. Christ's succor in temptation; as the good Samaritan first had compassion on the wounded man, there was sympat…

Qu. 22. Who are the extraordinary officers or rulers or ministers of the Church appointed to serve the Lord Jesus Christ therein for a season only? An. (1) The Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, with (2) the Evangelists and Prophets endowed with extraordinary gifts of the Holy G…

(4.) They differ also in the gifts which were suited to their several distinct works and employments. (1) Matthew 10:2; Luke 10:1; Galatians 1:1; Acts 1:26; Acts 6:3; Acts 14:23. (2) John 20:21, 22, 23; Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 21:14; Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5, 7.

And lastly, the Church in the Old Testament believed in Christ to come: but, now the Church believes in Christ, which is already come and exhibited: in all which respects, the Church in the New Testament doth exceed the Church of the Old. Now, where the Text saith, God provided…

So Christ commanded the twelve, As you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 10:7). Likewise the seventy, The kingdom of heaven is come nigh to you (Luke 10:9). Peter and all the disciples were ignorant of the death and resurrection of Christ, until he wa…

They expected righteousness, light, and grace, but knew not the way of them. From there their prophets, righteous men, and kings desired to see the things of the Gospel, and saw them not (Matthew 13:17; Luke 10:24). And therefore John the Baptist, who was greater than any of the…

[in non-Latin alphabet] is rendered, loco moveo, abrogo, abdico, irritum facio; to take out of the way, to abrogate, to disannul, to make void; and for the most part it has respect to a rule, law or command, that was or is in force. Sometimes it is used of a person, who ought in…

And to humble souls there is beauty in divine sovereignty. When the Lord Jesus rejoiced in Spirit, and thanked his heavenly Father that he had revealed the mysteries of the Gospel to babes, and hid them from the wise and prudent, he assigns no other reason but his sovereignty an…

We take it for granted that the way of maintenance is changed as to the ministers of holy things under the Old and New Testament. That the law of maintenance is taken away is the highest folly to imagine, it being so expressly asserted by our Savior himself and his Apostles (Luk…

(2.) He did it to exercise the faith of the Church called by virtue of the promise, in the expectation of its accomplishment. And by the various ways whereby God cherished their faith and hope was he glorified in all ages (Luke 1:70; Matthew 13:16; Luke 10:24; 1 Peter 1:10, 11;…

This gives a continual sweet savor to God from his oblation, and renders acceptable all the worship of the Church in their approaches to him (Revelation 8:3). These things did God instruct the Church in by types and figures, to prepare their faith for the receiving of him at his…

Indeed in respect of men who know not the causes of things, many chances there are: but so, as that they are ordered and come to pass by God's providence. By chance there came down a certain [reconstructed: priest] that way (Luke 10:31).

Chance is, when any thing comes to pass, the cause thereof being unknown not simply but in respect of man: and therefore in regard of men which know not the reason of things, we may say there is chance: and so the spirit of God speaks, 'Time and chance comes to them all' (Eccles…

'Tis uncertain whether we shall get them, and uncertain whether we shall keep them, and uncertain whether we shall live to enjoy them if they stay with us: All of this side grace is uncertain; these things are usually blasted in their flower and beauty; as Herod was stricken in…

Now the manner of loving God is to love him with all our heart and strength. Luke 10:27: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your thought. As Bernard said: The measure of loving God is to love him…

My third and last request is that you pray for me. I hope I can say, and I am sure some of you have acknowledged, that I came at first among you as the return and answer of your prayers: and indeed so it should be (see Luke 10:2). I am persuaded also I have been carried on in my…

That a man should prefer the hearing of a sermon, before an unnecessary worldly occasion, or the performance of a civility, I had almost said before a dearly beloved play. This I say is no more than conscience will justify: and 'tis a case already determined by our Savior (Luke…

Therefore seeing neither conversion, nor loving affection, nor cohabitation, nor coming into their meetings, does join a man as a member of the visible Church (for some men have all these, and yet are not members, and others are sometimes members of the visible Churches, and yet…

Thirdly, this life is a life that is least indigent of all others: it needs least. Take a man that leads any other life, he needs many things; this is shadowed in that of Martha, and Mary (Luke 10:41-42): Martha busies herself about many things, she wanted many; but Mary had one…

Indeed, in respect of men, who know not the causes of things, many chances there are: but so, as they are ordered and come to pass by God's providence. Luke 10:31: By chance there came down a certain priest that way.

But 1. I pray where does our Savior testifie this, that they desired to see it, and saw it not? I suppose in those words of Luke 10:24. For I tell you that many Proph[illegible] and Kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have n[illegible]t seen them.

That He Himself crushed the head of that serpent, the Socinians will not deny, I think. See John 12:31, 14:30; Luke 10:18; 1 Corinthians 15:54; Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 3:8; but of these things elsewhere. The Vulgate translator has ipsa conteret — "she shall bruise" — and from this…

And in such another place, and among such a people, Who has believed our report? as here the prophet does. It is said (Luke 10:17) and (Mark 6:30) the disciples returned, and with joy told Christ all that they had done, and how the devils were subject to them, they made account…

For 1. a correction of the human will seems to import a jarring and a discord; 2. Christ desired that, the contrary of which, he knew was from eternity decreed of God. 3. The Law of God is so spiritual, strict and holy, that it requires not only a conformity to it, and our will,…

Zephaniah 3:10: From beyond the river of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even the daughters of my dispersed shall come. 4. Their names are particularly enrolled in the Lamb's book of life (Luke 10:20; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 20:15). As citizens of some famous incorporation, or sena…

And the means God prescribes to us are these. First, as ever you would have Christ, labor wisely to ponder upon and consider how dead you are without Christ, for you shall never find life by Christ unless you find yourself lost without him (Luke 10:10). "Christ came to seek and…

Thus he did Haman, and so he does many others, whose climbing makes way for their greater fall. The devil himself was an aspirer, and fell from heaven like lightning (Luke 10:18): I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. And though in show he may seem to befriend many that…

He began to speak and to declare the Gospel both before and after his Resurrection; and they that heard him were especially the Apostles, who being endued by the Holy Ghost declared it first to the Jews, and then to the Gentiles to whom it was continued by various signs and wond…

Nay, you must strive to do greater and weightier matters. You must fulfill the law, according to that saying: Do this and you shall live (Luke 10:18). Faith which you so highly extol, does nothing else but make men careless, idle, and negligent.

Math. 10. 19. 20. Luc. 10. 16. Hence we may gather, the certenty of our religion.

For to them it was said, it is not you that speak, but the spirit of the father in you (Matthew 10:20). Again, he that hears you hears me, he that despises you despises me (Luke 10:16). The Apostles were called of God immediately, taught and inspired immediately, and immediately…

But Paul teaches them and us another lesson, when he commands us to do good to all, suitable to that of our Savior Christ, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, pray for them that hurt you and persecute you (Matthew 9:44). Let us consider t…

This so admirable a work of God then, ought to confirm us in this point, namely, that God will never utterly abandon his church. For although the wicked do rent and tear us in pieces with cursed speakings, and that they slander and abhor us; endeavoring by all means possible to…

It implies that he is not a mortal man, but a heavenly spirit — that he did not fly here at random, but, as became a servant of God, had faithfully performed his duty: and hence it follows that God, the author of the promise, had been treated with indignity and contempt in the p…

Let us learn, even when the reason does not immediately appear, to submit modestly to God, and let us not be ashamed to receive instruction from her who carried in her womb Christ the eternal “wisdom of God,” (1 Corinthians 1:24.) There is nothing which we should more carefully…

12. I say to you, That in that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that day. Luke 10:1. And after these things the Lord appointed That the Apostles had returned to Christ before these seventy were substituted in their place, may be inferred from many circumstances.…

in the day of judgment than for you. Luke 10:13-16 13. Woe to you, Chorazin!

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Luke 10:21 to 22 21.

For whosoever has, it shall be given to him; and whosoever has not, even that which he thinks that he has shall be taken from him. Luke 10:23-24. 23. And turning to his disciples, he said to them privately, Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see.

And after that, no man ventured to put a question to him. Luke 10:25-37 25. And, lo, a certain lawyer

And these are the diseases remaining yet of the old man: for faith has not yet here reached to its perfection, nor gotten a full power over the flesh. This may you plainly and evidently understand by the parable (Luke 10) of a certain man, who going down from Jerusalem to Jerich…

And therefore it follows, that a spiritual conviction of the truth of the great things of the Gospel, is such a conviction, as arises from having a spiritual view or apprehension of those things in the mind. And this is also evident from the Scripture, which often represents, th…

Pray you therefore the Lord of the Harvest,[[original in non-Latin script]]. So also, Luk. 10. 2. that he would thrust forth Labourers into his Harvest; namely, by furnishing them with the Gifts of his Spirit, and by the Power of his Grace constraining them to their Duty. So did…

They used before to have the stream of their desires after other things, or perhaps had their concern divided between this and them; but when they come to answer the expression in the text, of pressing into the kingdom of God, this concern prevails above all others; it lays othe…

That they have most cause of rejoicing is apparent. When the disciples came triumphing that they could cast out devils, heal the diseased, and work miracles: O but says Christ, Rejoice not in this, but rejoice that your names are written in the book of life (Luke 10:20). As much…

3. The return that they make (Hebrews 13:17). 4. The account that the Lord has of them in his employment (Matthew 10:40, 41, 42; Luke 10:16). RULE II.