Luke 24

Jesus Christ is the great Prophet of his church; the woman of Samaria gave a shrewd guess (John 4:19). He is the best teacher; he makes all other teaching effectual (Luke 24:45). Then opened he their understanding.

So the Hermians. But the Scripture is plain he ascended into heaven (Luke 24:51), and (Ephesians 4:10) far above all heavens: Therefore, above the firmament. He is ascended into the highest part of the Empyrean heaven, which Paul calls the third heaven.

Not to dispute what God could have done, but when we consider God was resolved to have the law satisfied, and to have man in a way of justice as well as mercy; then, I say, it was necessary that Christ should lay down his life as a sacrifice: 1. To fulfill the predictions of Scr…

Object. Against this Vorstius and the Anthropomorphites object, that in Scripture a human shape and figure is given to God; he is said to have eyes and hands? Resp. It is contrary to the nature of a spirit to have a corporeal substance; (Luke 24:39). Handle me, and see me, for a…

This sweet enjoying of God is when we feel his Spirit cooperating with the ordinance, and distilling grace upon our hearts. First, when in the word the Spirit does quicken and raise the affections (Luke 24:32): "Did not our hearts burn within us?" Second, when the Spirit does tr…

(Psalm 83:18): That men may know, that you whose name alone is Jehovah, are the most high over all the earth. And the disciples speaking of Jesus, did hallow his name (Luke 24:19): Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people. When…

Get your hearts quickened with the Word; go to it to fetch fire. Luke 24:31: Did not our hearts burn within us. Labor that the Word may not only be a lamp to direct, but a fire to warm.

Matthew 4:17: From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent, etc. And in his last farewell, when he was ascending to Heaven, he commanded that repentance should be preached in his name (Luke 24:37). Repentance is a pure Gospel grace.

Aphorism or Position 7. That sin is not forgiven, till it be repented of. Therefore they are put together (Luke 24:47). Repentance and Remission; Domine da poenitentiam, & postea indulgentiam. Fulgentius. 9. Now in repentance, there are three main ingredients, and all these must…

We see by experience that he prevails most in this sort of temptation with melancholic temperaments, who dwelling in dark shops he much deceives with false colors and glosses. When affections are up and cloud the mind, then multitudes of troublesome thoughts arise, and every sug…

Yet must we not imagine that they are bodily substances consisting of flesh and bone. And though they took upon them visible shapes and forms, and did eat and drink in the company of men, and thereupon are called men in scripture: yet they did this by divine dispensation for a t…

His words are not as vinegar to fret, but as salt to season others (Colossians 4:6). The roof of the mouth is called Coelum, heaven; a godly man's mouth is full of heaven; he speaks as if he had been already in heaven: The holy conference of the two disciples going to Emmaus bro…

Exercise eyes of Faith, and knees of Prayer; let us hang upon God by holy importunity, and not let him go. Luke 24. 29. They constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is towards evening. Is not God upon the threshold of his Temple ready to fly?

2. Observe, that the real and very great sorrow that the sins of the Elect deserved, our Lord Jesus did really and actually bear and suffer; as we have expounded the words and confirmed the exposition given of them, you have a clear confirmation of the doctrine from them; 1. Gri…

2. Justice appears in this respect, that when the Son of God, the Mediator, offers to become man, and to endure and suffer all that the elect should have suffered, his sufferings should be accepted as a satisfaction; because the justice of God, yes, the holiness, power, and grea…

So, having shown how it comes to pass that Christ suffered and suffered so much, and was brought so low under suffering; and having told that he was engaged to pay the Elect's debt, and that the Father had laid their iniquities on him; lest any might think that the Father would…

To be cut off out of the land of the living, is to have an end put to the natural life, which is ordinarily done by death; but cutting off here signifies to be taken away not in an ordinary but in an extraordinary way, to be removed by a violent death by the stroke of justice. W…

And I said to you when you were in your blood, live (Ezekiel 16:6). One word, live, is with child of omnipotence; Majesty, and heaven, and glory lie in the womb of one word, when Christ speaks as Christ, he speaks pounds and talent-weights (Luke 24:32). The disciples going to Em…

Nor need we flee to that exposition ever and anon, that Christ died for all, that is, all ranks of men. For "all" is put in Scripture ordinarily for many; as (Deuteronomy 1:21; Psalm 71:18; Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 19:9; Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 23:30; Jeremiah 49:17; Ezekiel 16:…

The true reason and mind of which blessing them was that he being now to go to execute the eternal office of his priesthood in heaven (of which God had sworn, 'You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek'), as Melchizedek in the type blessed Abraham and in him all th…

And so (oppositely) the same affections that are in men, so far as they are spiritual, and the spirit or soul is the seat of them, they must needs be found in the good angels. But Christ having a human nature, the same for substance that ours is, consisting both of soul and body…

Quench not the Spirit; now quenching belongs to fire, a sign therefore that the spirit is of a fervent nature, so far forth as it is capable of any quenching and destroying by the sons of men, and (2 Timothy 1:6) stir up the gifts of grace in you; as if you stirred up the embers…

An evident argument, though the word read may be of much use to establish us; yet much more the personal presence, and conference and preaching of the Gospel of Christ, else that prayer of his had been something impertinent. And so secondly, for conferring of the Scriptures, you…

Rabbi Simeon and Rabbi Hadersim out of Daniel, that after Messiah had preached half seven years he shall be slain. 5. It was necessary that by death he should come to his glory of which now some glimpse and foretaste was given to him (Luke 24:46). Thus it is written, and thus it…

Christ had told them that he should suffer an ignominious death, which they did not thoroughly understand, nor could they reconcile it with the present thoughts which they had of the Messiah, nor was it fit for them to hear all, how the death of Christ was foretold in the prophe…

As he has absolute authority to teach in his own name, and fullness of sufficiency to make known the mind of God to us; so he has power to make his doctrine effectual. As when he dealt with his disciples, after he had opened the Scriptures, he opened their understandings (Luke 2…

The third is, to teach the heart within, by illuminating the mind, and by working a faith of the doctrine which is taught. He opens the understandings of his disciples that they may understand the Scriptures (Luke 24:45). Thus here he enlightens and teaches Paul.

Gen. 42. This was the Simulation of Christ, who when he was come to Emaus, made as though he would have gone further, Luk 24:28. Thus Paul among the Iewes, plaid the Iewe, 1.

Upon like grounds Isaiah calls the Israelites, people of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 1). Christ calls the two disciples, foolish, and slow of heart to believe (Luke 24:25). Paul calls the Cretans liars and slow bellies (Titus 1:12).

Law] the word (law) in the first place, is taken properly for the moral and ceremonial law of Moses: and in the second place, for the books of Moses, and namely, for the book of Genesis. And in this sense the word is taken, when Christ is said to expound the law and the Prophets…

Our Savior Christ (the great Doctor of the Church) has by his own practice given us a precedent hereof in expounding the law (Matthew 5), in expounding all hard parables to his disciples apart: for the text says, that he unfolded or expounded them to them (Mark 4:33). That he in…

For although he was come, yet he was not then known, neither were the ceremonies of the law abolished. But when the veil of the Temple was rent in two (Matthew 27:51), and remission of sins preached in his name (Luke 24:46-47; Acts 13:38), then these high praises touching the Te…

49. And, lo, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but remain you in the city of Jerusalem, till you are endued with power from on high. Luke 24:41. But while they yet believed not for joy.

12. And after these things he appeared in another form to two of them who were walking, and were going into the country. Luke 24:13-30 13. And lo, two of them were going, on the same day, to a village which was about sixty furlongs distant from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;

14. Afterwards he appeared to the eleven while they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he was risen. Luke 24:31-40 31. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him;

20. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by accompanying signs. Luke 24:50-53 50. And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

7. But go away, tell his disciples and Peter, that he goes before you into Galilee; there shall you see him, as he said to you. Luke 24:1-8 1. And on the first day of the Sabbaths, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, carrying the spices which they had prepared, and…

11. And they, when they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, did not believe. Luke 24:9-12 9. And returning from the tomb, they told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

First he puts word and work, then he expresses one kind: namely the power of working miracles. So also it is taken with Luke, where he says, Christ was mighty in word and deed (Luke 24:19). Also with John, where Christ himself sends the Jews to his works, where they might have t…

Neither is this word heart taken for the seat of the affections, but for the intellect only, or understanding, as in (Deuteronomy 29:4), "The Lord has not given you a heart to understand." Also in another place (Luke 24:25), "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe." Furtherm…

The Spirit of God, in those that have sound and solid Religion, is a Spirit of powerful holy Affection; and therefore, God is said to have given them the Spirit of Power, and of Love, and of a sound Mind, 2 Timothy 1:7. And such, when they receive the Spirit of God, in his sanct…

Hence also it appears, that Affections arising from Texts of Scripture coming to the Mind are vain, when no Instruction received in the Understanding from those Texts, or any Thing taught in those Texts, is the Ground of the Affection, but the Manner of their coming to the Mind.…

And this Alienation or Aversation appears in two things; (1.) In its unreadiness and unaptness to receive Instructions in and about the Concernments of it. Hence are Men dull and flow of heart to believe, Luke 24. 25. [[original in non-Latin script]], Heb. 5. 11, 12. Heavy in He…

Third, this repentance that has been described, is indeed the special condition of remission of sin. This seems very evident by the Scripture, as particularly, Mark 1:4: John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins. So, Luke…

For it is said, They sat down with him, seven days, etc. I answer, We need not interpret it for seven continued days and nights, without any intermission; it is frequent in Scripture, to put a part, especially a greater part, for the whole; that which is often done, is said to b…

Againe, obserue the Titles, under which he comprehends the whole Scriptures of the olde Testament; The Law and the Prophets: Luke 16. 31. they are called Moses and the Prophets. Luke 24. 27. Christ beganne at Moses, and at all the Prophets, and interpreted unto them in all the S…

1. As being a remembering how it was with her while he spoke (for now he speaks not) she now observes, and calls to mind, that when he called and she shifted, yet even then her heart was affected with his word, and this smites her now, that she should have so long smothered so m…

In the twelfth verse we have some more qualifications of her petition, and some of the motives, that press her to seek after Christ's company. The third qualification is in these words, Let us go up early to the vineyards: the similitude is continued, but this word early, is add…

Indeed, if a walk be thus improved, it may be a walk to heaven. So we find the two disciples, who on this day were walking to Emmaus, how they entertained themselves, and shortened their way with spiritual and holy discourses (Luke 24:13). But those who have families to look aft…

So Psalm 115:1. Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory; that is, let the glory which is due to you be entirely ascribed to yourself. And so concerning Christ, Luke 24:47. Repentance and remission of sins are to be preached to all nations in his name; that is,…