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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Therefore the Scripture assures us, that God has the names of none written, but the names of his own, as Moses says in the former chapter, If you will not forgive the sin of this people, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written. You know me by name, my name i…

But besides this, there is a sovereign kind of judgment you c[]safed to the Prophets and Apostles, determining absolutely in matters of faith & conscience what is to be done, & what is not; and this is the judgment of God himselfe, whereupon the Apostles might say, It seem[]th g…

Again, 2. It implies respectfulness on their part, and also honesty; for, there is now no external thing to commend her to them: Which says, 1. That to the spiritual eye of honest souls, none will be so beautiful as the person that is holy; indeed, sometimes holiness will have a…

And therefore we have great reason to magnify our office, in the execution and performance of which we ought to demean ourselves as fathers, with all gravity and authority; and to let these know whose petulant affronts and scorns tend to the vilifying both of our persons and fun…

First; it signifies the temporal Sabbath, or the recurring seventh day or year, which we are now treating of. And because this was the most principal day of the week, therefore we find that the whole week is denominated from it, a Sabbath (Luke 10:12; Matthew 28:1). Secondly; it…

The Prophets of old did inquire and search, but did not so clearly understand the Gospel, as now it is revealed. Our Savior tells his disciples (Luke 10:24) that many Prophets and Kings had desired to see the things which they saw and had not seen them, and to hear the things wh…

What a man looks on as a [illegible], or thing by the by, he will never be violent for; but that which he makes his business, he will be industrious about. A man looks upon his trade as the only thing to get a livelihood by, and he follows it close: So if we would but look upon…

Prayer is also the golden key which opens these mystical Gospel clouds, and dissolves them into sweet gracious showers. God will have the whole work of the Ministry carried on by the prayers of his people, they first obtain their Ministers by prayer (Luke 10:2). Pray you the Lor…

Or, was he the author of a sect who is the great creator of unity, and who died to break down partition walls, and to slay all enmities (Ephesians 2:14-16; John 11:52), that he might gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad? Was he the author of a se…

A childe esteems of things usually as his father does; if there be any of you manifest a slight esteem of any among whom you live, before your children, your children will have the like esteem of them; if you manifest a high esteem of any, your children will do the like: Hence i…

And how remiss and cold towards things eternal? They are careful, and troubled about many things, but seldom mind the great and necessary matters, Luke 10. 40. They can rise early, go to bed late, eat the bread of carefulness: But when did they so deny themselves for their poor…

When he comes to command the return of his received love to complete communion with him, he says: my son, give me your heart, Proverbs 23:26 — your affections, your love. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and w…

2. Common equity and justice requires as much: for wages is as due for labor, as money for wares. Christ takes it for an undeniable principle, that the laborer is worthy of his hire: so also does the Apostle (Luke 10:7; 1 Timothy 5:18). This duty is to be performed to such as ar…

Section 14. For the Translations of the new Testament that are here afforded us, little need be spoken; of the Antiquity, usefulness, and means of bringing the Syriac into Europe, an account hath been given by many, and we willingly acquiesce in it: the Ethiopian and Persian are…

Objection 1. Does not Christ say, that to love the Lord our God is the Way to Life, Luke 10:27, 28? Is not this the same thing in effect, as when he directs the young Man to Eternal Life, by keeping the Commandments, and that in the same Language?

In two things; when both our care, and our delight, is lessened towards heavenly things. 1. When our care is lessened, when we are not so serious, so frequent in communion with God, as we were wont to be; as Martha that was cumbered about many things, but Mary had chosen the bet…

They try experiments so long, till the Lord has given them up to a spirit of infatuation, and then all comes to nothing, but they as a brand are fit for the burning. 5. By our worldly projects. Men show a loathing of this word, by their eagerness to the world; their hearts with…

1. As an exaction of the law, and so Christ urged it to the young man that was of a Pharisaical institution to abate his pride and confidence (Matthew 22:37): You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. Certainly these wo…