Mark 13

The sin of our nature is like a sleeping lion; the least thing that awakens it makes it rage. The sin of our nature, though it seems quiet, and lies as fire hid under the embers, yet if it be a little stirred and blown up by a temptation, how quickly may it flame forth into scan…

We have many sad symptoms, gray hairs are here and there upon us (Hosea 7:9), therefore let us lay hold upon the present season; they that sleep in seedtime will beg in harvest. 8. If you would go to the kingdom of heaven you must excubias agere keep a daily watch (Mark 13:37).…

A Christian must Excubias agere, keep watch and ward. See where Satan labors to make a breach, see what grace he most strikes at, or what sin he most tempts to (Mark 13:37). I say to you all: watch.

For this precise time, the knowledge of it is among the principal secrets of his sovereignty, which he has for reasons suited to his infinite wisdom, laid up in his own eternal bosom. Hence is that of our Savior, Of that day and hour knows no man, no not the Angels that are in H…

2. All unbelief is the more heinous, the more means you have to the contrary, as counsels, warnings, promises clearly held forth; See (John 15:22) If I had not spoken to them, &c. and (John 2:19) Light is come into the world, &c. The word is preached [in non-Latin alphabet], for…

But insofar as He stood forth as the Head of the church, Mediator, and the apostle of our confession delegated by the Father, He knew only those things (namely, in that nature in which He Himself performed the entire mediatorial office) which were given and revealed to Him by th…

To this is contrary, a stay, or going backward (Galatians 5). Watchfulness is a continual care with ourselves, that we be readily prepared as we ought, to practice good, and resist evil, which is set forth (Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Mark 13:35)…

(2.) The certainty of it as well as the possibility, for Christ assumed our body not for passion only, but for glorification; that therein he might be an instance and pattern to us. For if the head be glorious, so will the members also, how base soever the people of God seem to…

4. Do you receive it as the word of God (1 Thessalonians 2:13) It may be you do not contradict the divine authority in the Scriptures, but do you soundly believe them, and know the certainty of those things wherein you are instructed (Luke 1:4) Have you done anything to prove th…

Would you not be carried from your closet devotion to eternal communion with God? Oh then take our Lord's most wholesome counsel, Take heed, watch and pray; for you know not when the time is (Mark 13:33). I might here challenge Christians also, not only for their neglect of, but…

8. But all these things are the beginnings of sorrows. Mark 13:1-8 1. And while he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Master, see what stones and what buildings!

28. For wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles also be gathered together. Mark 13:14-23 14. But when you shall see the abomination of desolation, which is described by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand,) then let them that ar…

31. And he shall send his angels with a loud sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one extremity of heaven to the other. Mark 13:24-27 24. But in those days, after that tribulation, shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall no…

36. But of that day and hour no man knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father alone. Mark 13:28-32 28. Now learn a similitude from the fig-tree.

42. Watch therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord will come. Mark 13:33 33. Take heed, watch and pray; for you know not when the time is.

51. And shall cut him off; and assign his portion with hypocrites: weeping and gnashing of teeth shall be there. Mark 13:34-37 34. As a man “C’est ainsi comme si un homme, etc.; ou, Le Fils de l’homme est tout un comme si un homme,” etc.—”It is as if a man, etc.; or, The Son of…

14. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world for a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come. Mark 13:9-13 9. But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to councils and synagogues; you will be scourged and will be broug…

They believe that he sits in heaven, and is Lord: but the taking away of sins, which is his proper and peculiar office, they nip and take quite from him, and attribute it to their own works: and by that means, leave nothing to him but the bare name and title: ascribing his power…

Hence himself declares that the Humane Nature was not the Residential Subject of Omnisciency. For so he speaks, Mark. 13. 32. But of that Day and that hour knowes no Man, no nor the Angels which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

So that I say a man may be an elect child of God, and yet not express the fruit of his election in his life for many years. Ninthly, that God for the great love he bears to his elect that are in the world, lets reprobates and wicked men enjoy many mercies and outward deliverance…

An actual exercise of that principle of holy wisdom wherewith he was endued, in his infancy, as afterwards, he had not (Luke 2:52). Nor had he in his human nature an absolutely infinite comprehension of all individual things past, present and to come, which he expressly denies,…

5. Supernatural habits and supernatural dispositions are near to each other, as the fire and the flaming of the fire, the clouds and the rain, the sea, and the ebbing and flowing of the sea; not that the disposition is the very operation and second act of the habit, but because…

Or stand against him steadfast and fixed in the faith (verse 9)? Christ is much upon this, by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Watch, Watch, and pray; and lest it slip them again, I say to you, Watch (Matthew 26:38, 40, 45; Matthew 24:42; Matthew 25:13; Mark 13:23; Mark 14:38; Luke 17:2…

Love being peculiar to a husband, to him he says, Let him love his wife: and reverence being peculiar to a wife, to her he says, let the wife see that she reverence her husband. The direction in every of those several epistles which were sent to the seven churches of Asia, (in t…

Sixthly, consider what occasions, what advantages your distemper has taken to exert and put forth itself, and watch against them all. This is one part of that duty which our blessed Savior recommends to his disciples under the name of watching (Mark 13:37): I say unto you all, W…

The Sun of Righteousness, is not he worth the beholding? USE 3. Let us cease wondering at worldly things, great places, honors, heaps of wealth, fair buildings, as the disciples (Mark 13:1): Master, see what manner of stones and buildings are here! It is said of Christ (Colossia…

3. This advantage we have by this notion, a testimony is a ground of self-examination, or a rule whereby we may judge of our state and actions; for it witnesses not only de jure, what we must do; or de eventu, what we may expect; but de facto, whether we do good or evil, what we…

2. It is a singular favor to them on whom God bestows this heavenly wisdom, and so puts a difference between them and others. It is a greater sign of friendship and respect to them, than if God had given them all the world, (Mark 13:11) To you it is given to know the mysteries o…

There is no man but some talent or other is committed to him, which he ought to make a good use of. He who is the Lord of us all, has given to every man his work (Mark 13:34). One man has this work, and another man has that work, in the doing of which he must improve his talent.

27:40. Mark 13:2. Chap.

Hee would not tell them when the end of the word should bee; it shews then it is great pride of heart to passe peremptory conjectures upon the period of time, Christ did not thinke it meet for to tell his Apostles of the time of his coming, 1 Thess. 5. 1. But of the times and se…

I have been the longer in giving an account of this, that we might understand where the ground and force of this Scoff lay; namely in this, That because the Christians had generally been very confident, that the coming of Christ to Judgment would be presently after the destructi…

So when we are at our callings, which God bids us to be conversant about with all our might (Ecclesiastes 9:10), yet our minds like idle truants, or negligent servants, though sent about never so serious a business, yet go out of the way to see any sport, run after the hares tha…

I say (says he) I that am a faithful and true witness, I who cannot lie, I who am the very truth, I say. So as, of what authority our Lord, the eternal Son of God is, this which he has here delivered is also, namely, true, certain, infallible, unchangeable; heaven and earth shal…

To this purpose tend those many exhortations which by Christ and his Disciples are made to watch. When Christ warned his Disciples of his last coming (Mark 13:37), and when he was in his agony he bid them watch (Matthew 26:41). So Paul (Colossians 4:2), so Peter (1 Peter 4:7).

2. Rule. We must use continual watchfulness against our enemies, but specially against our spiritual enemies. This watchfulness our Saviour commands often in the Gospel, but specially in Mark 13:33: Take heed, watch, and pray. Verse 35: Watch therefore, for you know not, etc.