Mark 16

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

This is the Command given to the convinced Jailor. Promises and Threatenings, Mark 16:16. Preach the Gospel to every Creature; he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, he that believeth not shall be damned.

Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand, Mark 1:15. Repent and believe the Gospel, Mark 16:16. He that believes shall be saved.

There he shows that many were chosen of God his father, who nevertheless were not comprised in the nation of the Jews. And when he was risen again from the dead, he said, Go preach the Gospel to all creatures (Mark 16:15). Here then is commandment first given them to preach the…

If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved: For with the heart man believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. There is the whole sum of Christi…

This sentence stands in force against all heathens which never heard of Christ, and are condemned already by the law. But now Christians (or those that take up such a profession) and have heard of the Gospel, on them it is confirmed by a new sentence, since they will not fly to…

3 Some men have been, are, and will be damned for sin; all but them who have, do and shall condemn sin, and themselves for sin: If we judge ourselves, we shall not be condemned of the Lord, else woe be to us! When our Savior sent his disciples to preach, he said, Go preach the G…

A burning fever is nothing to burning in Hell; or rather, let me speak a true, though a great and big word, if all the miseries that have been undergone by all men in the world, were all met together and centered in one man, it were nothing to Hell; Hell would be a kind of Parad…

Promises of good are against the evil of sin. 4 The Menacing and threatening part of the Gospel is against sin; God threatens before men sin, that they may not sin, to prevent sin; and he threatens after men have sinned, that they may repent of sin: it is not only the Law, but t…

Does not our Lord Christ promise life eternal and salvation to all that believe? Is not this the gospel that is to be preached to every creature: He that believes shall be saved? (Mark 16:16). Though it is true what our Lord Christ says, that he that believes shall be saved, yet…

3. Godliness is the safest gain; the gain of worldly things is always with difficulty, but seldom with safety; the soul is often hazarded in the over-eager pursuit of worldly things; indeed thousands do pawn, and lose, and damn their precious souls eternally for a little silver…

But there is no Word, but that of a [illegible] Promise (namely, wherein the Condition is either [illegible] or understood) wherein our Justification [illegible] Adoption is Evidenced. (Mark 16:16) The [illegible] the Gospel is clear: He that believes shall be [illegible]. As it…

Second, unbelief hardens the heart. These two sins are linked together (Mark 16:14): He upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart. Unbelief breeds the stone of the heart.

It had beene better for you that Christ had neuer come in the flesh, that his righteousnesse had neuer been offered to you. Therefore is that added, Mar. 16. He that beleeues not, is damned.

Heere the Couenant is expressed absolutely, and this is proper onely to the Elect. But now beside this, there is a conditionall Couenant of Grace, which is common to all; and that is expressed in these termes, Christ has prouided a righteousnesse and salvation, that is his worke…

4. There is no more reason to say, it was a civil covenant made with Abraham, because it distinguished Abraham's seed from other nations, and an earthly covenant, because Canaan was promised to them, not to us, than to say there be two covenants of works, one made to Adam, with…

And since godly and sound believing martyrs died for this end, especially to glorify God, and seal the truth (John 21:19; Revelation 2:13; Matthew 10:32; Luke 12:8; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; 2 Timothy 2:12; Revelation 12:11), we must have most properly forgiveness of sins in the blo…

Now this fullness and sufficiency of the merit of the death of Christ is a foundation for two things. First, the general publishing of the gospel to all nations with the right it has to be preached to every creature (Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:16). Because the way of salvation which…

It is conceded on all sides that faith is of such absolute and indispensable necessity to salvation — there being no substitute accepted for lack of it under the new covenant — that whatever God has done in his love by sending his Son, and whatever Christ has done or does in his…

First, it is true that God at all times since the creation has called people to the knowledge of himself as the great Creator through the visible creation (Romans 1:19-20; Psalm 19:1-2; Acts 14:17). Second, that after the death of Christ, he did by the preaching of the Gospel ca…