Mark 5

This faith has one degree more than historical faith. Examples of it we have in Simon Magus (Acts 8:13), who is said to believe, because he held the doctrine of the apostle to be true; and withal professed the same: and in the devils also, who in some sort confessed, that Christ…

3. The third character is, that it will have with it a sticking to Christ, and a fear to presume in sticking to Him; there will be two things striving together, an eagerness to be at Him, and a fear that they be found presumptuous in meddling with Him, and a holy trembling to th…

I reason thus, if a Christian foresees the Lord before him in all his ways, and keeps always as in his eye and presence, surely he should set the Lord before him in his worship and in his prayers (Psalm 16:8). A good Christian does always keep as in God's eye and presence, much…

For [Greek text] must here be translated, but: as appears by the words following, We have believed in Christ, that we might be justified by faith in Christ without the works of the law. We cannot do more in the curing of our spiritual diseases, than in the curing of the diseases…

This ought to be a caveat to us, to take heed how we contemn or neglect the ministers of God, seeing whatever wrong is done them, Christ takes it as done to himself (Matthew 25:45; Acts 9:4). This lets us see the heinous sins of many that profess the Gospel, especially in this k…

34. And, lo, the whole city went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they entreated him, that he would depart from their territories. Mark 5:1-20 1. And having crossed the sea, they came into the country of Gaderanes.

And the woman was cured from that time. Mark 5:22-34 22. And, lo, one of the rulers of the synagogue, by name Jarius, came: and when he had seen him, he fell at his feet.

26. And this report spread into all that country. Mark 5:35-43 35. While he is still speaking, there come from the ruler of the synagogue persons who say, Your daughter is dead: why do you trouble the Master any farther?

There is probability in the conjecture that, as Christ frequently, when he wished to try the faith of men, delayed for a short time to relieve them, so he subjected this blind man to the same scrutiny. The second difficulty may be speedily removed; for we have seen, on a former…

And if Christ, as man, did not know the last day, that does not any more derogate from his Divine nature than to have been mortal. I have no doubt that he refers to the office appointed to him by the Father as in a former instance, when he said that it did not belong to him to p…

It was only a Pledge and Token of the particular Application of the healing Power of Christ to her Soul, or her Faith in him in particular for that End. For at the same time many thronged upon him in a presse, so as his Disciples marvelled he should ask who touched his Cloaths;…

It is the design of the Devil, that great deceiver and destroyer of souls, that is baffled, it is his attempt that is defeated, his assault that is repulsed by our meekness and quietness. Our Lord Jesus was more admired for his controlling and commanding the unclean spirits, tha…

No man but a frantic, furious, desperate wretch will beat himself. Two sorts of men are in Scripture noted to cut and lance their own flesh, idolaters, as the Baalites (1 Kings 18:28), and demoniacs, as he that was possessed with a legion of devils (Mark 5:5). Such are they who…

2. As sin is worse than the Devil as a tempter, and a worse tempter; so sin is worse than the Devil as a tormentor, and a worse tormentor. The Devil is cruel enough, a roaring lion, and many times takes possession of men, and handles them most unmercifully, and will much more to…

Look into the Scripture, and see what that is upon which your only stands, and you shall find that God has fixed it upon those great duties, which alone tend to the perfection of your state as Christians. God has fixed your only upon believing (Mark 5:36): only believe. God has…

O bless me also, convert me also, call me effectually, and cause me also to believe (Genesis 37:34). That which was the command of Christ to that man in Mark 5:36 is the exhortation to you: only believe. Let this be the pearl in your eye and pursuit.

If I weep (says Augustine) for that body from which the soul is departed, how should I weep for that soul from which God is departed? Had we seen that man in the gospel cutting himself with stones and fetching blood from himself, it would have moved our pity (Mark 5:5). To see a…

A wicked man's swiftness in sin is like Absalom's riding on his mule (2 Samuel 18:9): the mule went under the thick boughs of an oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between heaven and earth. Sinners make haste to sin as a bird hastens to the snare; they…

Faith does not only justify, but sanctify: as it has one work in heaven, so it has another work in the heart: he that before was under the power of some hereditary corruption, as soon as faith is wrought there is a sacred virtue coming from Christ for the weakening of that sin:…

What lighter then the sand? yet number makes it weighty? what creature lesse then lice? yet what plague greater to the Egyptians? How formidable then must devils be, who are both for nature so mighty, and for number such a multitude? there are devils enough to beleaguer the whol…

But the act of touching was conjoined with the act of hearing: Who has touched me? Yet the act of hearing had no causative influence in the drawing virtue out of Christ, but only the act of touching did extract the virtue, as Christ says (Luke 8:50), (Mark 5:36): Fear not, 〈in n…

And what a trembling hope have they that they be, and are to fear they shall be in the condition of Apostate Angels tomorrow? What says then Christ (Matthew 9:22; Mark 5:34; Mark 10:52; Luke 8:58; Luke 5:20, 24; Mark 5:34; Mark 9:24) indeed and much more says the Holy Ghost of o…

Every sin you committest, you givest a stab to your soul . While you are kind to sin, you are cruel to your self; like him in the Gospel, who did cut himself with stones till the blood came, (Mark 5:5). The sinner is like the Jaylor, who drew a sword to kill himself. (Acts 16:27…