Luke 20

5. The bodies of the saints at the Resurrection shall be immortal (1 Corinthians 15:53). This mortal shall put on immortality, our bodies shall run parallel with eternity (Luke 20:36). Neither can they die any more.

What a high honor is this? 4. God makes his children equal in honor to the angels (Luke 20:36). They are [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] equal to the angels: nay, those saints who have God for their Father, are in some sense superior to the angels; for Jesus Christ having taken our…

(1.) Prejudice against the truths preached. The Sadducees were prejudiced against the doctrine of the resurrection, (Luke 20:27). (2.) Prejudice against the person preaching, (1 Kings 22:8).

But behold her hypocrisy; she makes her devotion a preface to adultery. Luke 20:47: Who devour widows' houses, and for pretense make long prayers. This sin was not in making long prayers, (for Christ was a whole night in prayer) but to make long prayers that they might do unrigh…

The angels in heaven know every man's estate, they know when any sinner repents and rejoice thereat, and they pray for particular men. Therefore the saints in heaven do the like, for they are equal to the good angels (Luke 20:36). Answer: The place in Luke is to be understood of…

Fourth, you shall have an everlasting enjoyment of them in heaven, never to part again. The children of the resurrection can die no more (Luke 20:36). You shall kiss their pale lips and cold cheeks no more.

(1 Timothy 6:17) Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded; this world is opposed to eternity, and to life eternal, for which the rich are to lay up a sure foundation. (Luke 20:34) The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage. Verse 35: But…

We teach no such thing, as that reasonings, syllogisms, or the Scriptures, without the Spirit can produce faith, yet it is vain arguing, to say rain, and dew, the summer sun, good soil cannot bring forth roses, flowers, vines, grains; because sure, it is a work of omnipotence, t…

3. The state of future glory and felicity. 1. The dead in the Lord are not perished, but live for ever with God in Heaven; for here they appear long after their departure hence (Luke 20:38): He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to him. They all live to G…

Iohns authoritie is said to be from heauen, because his baptisme, that is, his doctrine, was so. Luk 20:2. The third is, that extraordinarie teachers in these last daies, after they have brought men to receive the Gospel, are to be ordained as other ordinarie ministers after the…

And Jesus answering saith to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. Luke 20:1-8 1. And it happened on one of those days, while he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, the chief priests, and scribes, with the elders, came up…

12. And they sought to take him, and dreaded the multitude; for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went away. Luke 20:9-19 9. And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it to husbandmen,…

“Rendez à Caesar ce qui est à Caesar, et à Dieu ce qui est à Dieu;” — “render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” Luke 20:20-26 20. And they watched him, and sent spies, who would pretend to be righteous men, to entrap him in his words, and to deliver him to t…

27. God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living; therefore you greatly err. Luke 20:27-40 27. And some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came, and interrogated him,

And a vast multitude heard him gladly. Luke 20:41-44 41. And he said to them, How do they say that Christ is the son of David?

(A little before.) Luke 20:45-46 45. And while all the people were hearing, he said to his disciples,

52. Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering. Luke 20:47 47. Who devour widows' houses, and by way of pretense make long prayers

We are drawing every day towards our Natural End whether we will or no; and if we doe not therewithall draw nearer towards our Supernatural End in Glory, we are most miserable. Now men doe but deceive themselves, if they suppose that they are approaching towards Glory in time, i…

This preciousness, or high valuableness of believers is a moral fitness to a reward, and yet this valuableness is all in the righteousness of Christ, that is the foundation of it. The thing that respect is had to, is not the excellency that is in them, separately by themselves,…

(4.) They shall be freed from death, to which from then on they can be subject no more; that formidable adversary of nature shall assault it no more. For they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in…

The Pharisees sent the Herodians, who should feign themselves just men, and praise him into a snare, and court him into (crimen laesae majestatis) a crime against Caesar: they pretend a case of conscience, but says our Saviour to this sort of men (spies and catchpoles) "Why do y…

There are degrees of glory, which I prove thus: First, because there are degrees of torments in hell (Luke 20, last verse): They shall receive greater damnation. They who make religion a cloak for their sin shall have a hotter place in hell.

Indeed, Bellarmine says that Adam had died though he had not sinned; but I know no ground for that assertion, for sin is made the formal cause of death (Romans 5:12). However, there is no such thing disputable in heaven — the bodies there are immortal (Luke 20:36): 'Neither can…

This touches the differences of the old and stony heart in such as are externally only in Covenant with God, and are hypocrites: and the new and soft heart of such as are internal, real, and absolute Covenanters: hence these propositions. 1. A hypocrite is he who on the stage re…

For God (says he) is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Therefore Paul also showing to the Ephesians from what destruction the Lord had delivered them, gathers by this that they had not been admitted into the covenant of circumcision, that they were without Christ, with…

Read the whole story, Genesis 34:20-24. 2. The hypocritical Pharisees were also of this religion: long prayers were their pretence, but to get widows’ houses was their intent; and greater damnation was from God their judgment (Luke 20:46-47). 3. Judas the devil was also of this…

Their virtue ceases to be virtue, and their sin is no longer sin. The scripture assures us, that in the next life men will be made (Luke 20:36) equal to the angels; but angels, we know, have apostatized and fallen; and why may not men, even when made equal to the angels? If righ…

Let us consider those, which the Doctor supposes determine the future life and happiness of the righteous to be endless. Luke 20:36; "Neither can they die any more." This may be evaded two ways; it may be said to mean no more, than that they shall not die during the continuance…

But if perish in this passage means endless perdition, it doubtlessly means the same in all those texts in which the wicked are positively said to perish, as 1 Corinthians 1:18, For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. Luke 20:35: But they which shall b…