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Christ having ascended up in the clouds as his triumphant chariot, gives the gift of his Spirit to us: as a king at his coronation bestows gifts liberally to his favorites. 4. God has exalted Christ in his session at God's right hand (Mark 16:19). After the Lord had spoken to th…

Unbelief is a root-sin, and the Devil labors to water this root, that the branches may be fruitful. (1.) Unbelief breeds hardness of heart: therefore they are put together (Mark 16:14): Christ upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart. Unbelief breeds the stone of…

It is God's will that we should repent, and this is for our good; repentance ushers in remission; (Acts 3:9) Repent that your sins may be blotted out. It is God's will that we should believe; and why is it but that we should be crowned with salvation; (Mark 16:16) He that believ…

Now the condition is believing: that which the Gospel says, is, that if we ever hope to get pardon of all our sins, and have our person to find acceptance with a holy God, [illegible] and through Jesus Christ, we must believe [illegible] him; and this is so positive and unaltera…

Q What was the place to which he did ascend? A. The third heaven, far above this earth, and all these inferior and visible heavens (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; Acts 1:11; John 14:1-2; Ephesians 4:10). Q. Was this ascension of Christ a true and real mutation and change of place, or o…

Q: Besides the Resurrection and ascension of Christ, what further degree is there of his exaltation? A. His sitting at the right hand of God (Psalm 110:1; Mark 16:19; Ephesians 1:20; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 1:3, 13; and 8:1; and 10:12, 13). Q. What are we to understand by Christ…

You have shewed many excellent benefits that come by faith; but whether is faith of such necessity that these things cannot be without it? Such is the necessity of this grace of faith, that in respect of the usual way of God's dispensation, there is no hope nor possibility that…

Matthew 11:28. Come to me all you that are weary and laden, and I will ease you. Mark 16:16. He that shall believe and be baptized, shall be saved: but he that will not believe shall be damned. Acts 10:43. That through his name all that believe in him, shall receive remission of…

At the earnest suit and intercession the Church made to God, Peter the Apostle was released out of his imprisonment, and brought to the house where they were praying (Acts 12). Seventhly, lastly, there is no society that has such privileges, as this spiritual house, which is con…

The partition wall is broken down, and the gates of the new Jerusalem are set open to all comers upon the Gospel invitation. This is frequently taken notice of in the Scripture; see Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:15; John 11:51, 52; John 12:32; Acts 11:18; Acts 17:30; Galatians 5:6; Eph…

Secondly, this Rite was used in the healing of diseases. They laid their hands on sick, weak and impotent people, healing them in a miraculous manner (Luke 4:40; Mark 16:18; Acts 28:8). This was the sign of the communication of healing virtue from the Lord Christ by their Minist…

For though such sinners under the Law might and did many of them perish eternally, yet they did not so by virtue of the constitution of the Law of Moses, which reached only to temporal punishments: but this punishment is eternal, that's constantly proposed in the first place to…

He was to come to destroy those murderers, and to burn their city, which fell out not long after the writing of this Epistle, and is properly intended in this place. See (Matthew 24:3, 27, 30; 2 Peter 3:4; Jude 14; Revelation 1:7; Mark 16:28; James 5:7, 8). For hereon ensued the…

The appearances of Christ the same day he rose again are five. And first of all early in the morning he appeared to Mary Magdalene [reconstructed: (Mark 16:9)]. In this appearance diverse things are to be considered.

When Adam was troubled, though God reproved him yet he made him a coat of skins to cover his nakedness. When Peter was weeping, Christ sent a comfortable message to him, Go tell my disciples and Peter, &c. (Mark 16:7). 4. If they err in smaller matters, we must not deal with mot…

It is a most certain truth that there are many believers that shall never be saved, for all faith in the name of Christ is not sound and saving. It is true, it is granted, that faith or believing is the gospel condition of salvation (John 3:16, 36; Acts 16:31; Mark 16:16). He th…

The misery and danger of a state of unbelief. The gospel terms run thus: He that believes shall be saved; and he that believes not shall be damned (Mark 16:16). Oh! Can you be at quiet, in a state of unbelief?

3. When the offer is made, and the precious wares are exposed to sale in this cried fair of grace, a command comes out, choose life, come buy the wares, believe, receive the offer, as is clear in all the places we named before; it leaves not people indifferent to receive or not,…

And that is all one as to say, he that believes shall be justified. (Mark 16:16): He that believes, and is baptized, shall be saved, but he that believes not shall be damned. These are the terms on which the Apostles are by Christ warranted to preach the Gospel, and to make the…

1. That, by which they assert, that these who are justified, were justified from eternity; and were never under God's curse. And 2. That faith is not necessary to the attaining of justification, but only to a person's knowing that he is justified; and so they say, that faith ent…

2. Neither does Faith justify as it looks to every object which the Word holds forth; but as it respects Christ, offered in the Gospel, whom it receives; because there is no other thing that can bear the soul's weight and burden; therefore he, as offered in the Gospel, must be t…

Now the Law had a promise of life, if you do this, you live eternally, but God neither did work, nor was tied by the tenor of that Covenant, to work in us to do, to will, to continue, to abide in all written in the Law of God to the end, and therefore it was a broken Covenant. N…

Answer: All these prove this place will prove only, we are to pray for magistrates under whom we have peace, and the Gospel, not for believers, and so not for all Adam's sons; as the next words, page 59, prove. Object 13. Here is a ground to preach the Gospel to all men, to ever…

You find him at other times transported with a passion of excessive reverence or humility (John 13:8): Lord, you shall never wash my feet. With a passion of love, or pity to his Master: Lord, let it be far from you, this shall not be to you — when his Master had foretold his dea…

It is not a bodily punishment but eternal torment (John 3:36) The wrath of God abides on him. (Mark 16:16) He that believes not shall be damned. Thus you see how dangerous it is to refuse this Prophet.

And Paul's commission was, that he should first preach to the Gentiles, and in the second place to the people of Israel (Acts 9:16). It may be objected, that the commission of all the Apostles, was to go into all the world, and to preach to all men without exception (Mark 16:15)…

The word New is often taken in Scripture in this sense, as (Exodus 1:8) There arose up a new king which knew not Joseph: that is, (as the 70 interpreters, and Saint Luke (Acts 7:18) translate it) another king. (Mark 16:17) They shall speak with new tongues, that is, other, diver…

Thus then the Gentiles might in the beginning doubt whether this benefit of adoption belonged to them or not, seeing it was properly appropriated to the Jews. And therefore we see how the Apostles avoided this thing; though the Lord had commanded them to preach the Gospel throug…

Christ reminds the Apostles, and, through them, all the teachers of the Gospel, to reserve the treasure of heavenly wisdom for the children of God alone, and not to expose it to unworthy and profane despisers of his word. But here a question arises: for he afterwards commanded t…

Mark 16:12 12. And after these things he appeared in another form to two of them who were walking, and were going into the country.

Mark 16:13-14 13. And they went away and told it to the rest, but neither did they believe them.

Mark 16:19-20 19. And after the Lord had thus spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Come, see the place where the Lord lay: 7. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, lo, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall you see him: lo, I have told you. Mark 16:1-7 1. And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the w…

20. Teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Mark 16:15-18 15. And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

10. Then Jesus says to them, Fear not; go, tell my brethren to go into Galilee; and there shall they see me. Mark 16:8-11 8. And they went away quickly, and fled from the tomb; for they were seized with trembling and amazement, and said nothing to any person; for they were afrai…

Unless saint Peter's meaning be this: that the Gospel was so generally and universally in the world proclaimed, and so openly in every place rung out, that it was hidden neither to the quick nor to the dead, neither to Angels, neither yet to Devils: that is to wit, it was not pr…

This is a notable place of the use of miracles: namely that they should get to God among men, reverence and obedience. So you read in Mark, that the Lord confirmed his doctrine by miracles that followed (Mark 16:20; Acts 14:3). So Luke says, that the Lord gave testimony to the w…

The Institution of God: He has appointed the Preaching of the Word to be the Means, the only outward ordinary Means for the Conversion of the Souls of Men, 1 Cor. 1. 17, 18, 19, 20. Mar. 16. 15, 16. Rom. 1. 16.

Know you not, that you are men and women condemned to wrath by the plain sentence of the Law? Mark 16:16 John 3:36 2 Thess. 1. 6, 7. And if so, ure there are other matters to exercise your thoughts, desires, fears and cares about than these. Alas! if you cannot bear a frown of P…

(Mark 16:15-16) And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he that does not believe shall be damned.

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Now these motives from comminations and threatenings I call evangelical: 1. Because they are recorded in the Gospel: there we are taught them, and by it commanded to make use of them (Matthew 10:28; chap. 24:50; chap. 25:41; Mark 16:16; John 3:36; 2 Corinthians 2:15, 16; 2 Thess…

As also that to the seventy (Luke 10:17, 19). Yes, he promised them, which also came to pass, that by his power and presence with them, they should do greater things than those which they had seen him to do (John 14:12; Mark 16:17). And this difference is so eminent that nothing…

And this was the season wherein our blessed Savior rose from the grave, and from under the curse of the Law, bringing with him the tidings of peace with God, and deliverance. He rose between the first dawning of light, and the rising of the Sun (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2), to that…

But I must acknowledge that notwithstanding the weight laid upon it by Theodoret and some others, this reason seems not to me cogent to the end for which it is produced. For (1.) the commission given by the Lord Christ to his Apostles, was catholic, and had no bounds but that of…

And, 5. That believers are sometimes ready to suspect, more than they have ground, that there is some storm yet before them; but Christ has made all fair weather, ere he call: O great argument! He calls not to fight, but to gather the spoil; He puts not believers to the sea, til…

Where a public Profession of Religion with the Mouth is evidently spoken of as a great Duty of all Christ's People, as well as believing in him; and ordinarily requisite to Salvation; not that it is necessary in the same Manner that Faith is, but in like Manner as Baptism is. Fa…

He rebukes their unbelief (v. 25), and as to his own disciples, he sent them word with eye-witnesses who saw him, that he was risen again, but their words seem idle tales to them (Luke 24:11). And he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart (Mark 16:14). 3. He app…

By Grace you are saved through Faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the Gift of God, not of Works, — for we are his Workmanship, et cetera. In other places of Scripture the Gospel is represented in a Conditional way, as Mark 16:15, 16. Preach the Gospel to every Creature, he…

and the Sentence of our Lord is dreadful and peremptory. He that believes not shall be damned, Mark 16:16. With the Heart Man believes unto Righteousness, and with the Mouth Confession is made unto Salvation, Romans 10:10.