Matthew 20

There is a twofold call: 1. An extrinsic or outward call; 2. An intrinsic or inward effectual call. 1. An extrinsic or outward call, which is God's offer of grace to sinners, inviting them to come in and accept of Christ and salvation (Matthew 20:16). Many are called, but few ch…

Many a man's heart will tell him, he is fit for the Lord's Table. As when Christ asked the sons of Zebedee (Matthew 20:22), Are you able to drink the cup I shall drink of? Can you drink such a bloody cup of suffering?

(1.) It is a sovereign will, he has a supreme right and dominion over his creatures, to dispose of them as he pleases. A man may do with his own as he likes (Matthew 20:15): Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? A man may cut his own timber as he will.

And this word also is used in expressing the death of Christ for us. He came, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (Matthew 20:28), to give his life a ransom for many; that is, in their stead to die. So the words are used again (Mark 10:45).

And thus by this Covenant, the righteousness of Christ came to be, not only equivalent in virtue and worth, but the very actual price of the ransom of sinners (1 Timothy 2:6). Who gave himself a ransom: and Christ not only virtually but actually, properly, and according to Coven…

Q. How is this just that God should deny the assistance of his grace, and leave men to themselves, and the temptations of Satan? A. Yes, it is very just, because he is debtor to none, but may bestow his grace where, and upon whom he pleases (Romans 11:35; Matthew 20:15). Q. What…

The sons of Zebedee would have been glorified in Christ's kingdom more than the rest of the apostles. But Christ says in Matthew 20:22-23: 'Are you able to drink of the cup of which I shall drink?' — meaning that cup delivered to him at his crucifying ('Let this cup pass'), the…

Matthew 7:13-14. The gate is narrow and the way strait which leads to life, and few there be which find it. Again, Many are called, but few are chosen (Matthew 20:16).

For, God's mercy calls a man in his old age, and touches the heart when it pleases him. Christ in the Parable calls some at the 11th hour, Matthew 20:6: and so God calls men to grace in their old age. We must therefore spare these sharp and unsavoury censures, which some unadvis…

Not only what he continues to do in Heaven at the right hand of God belongs to this ministry, but all that he suffered also upon the Earth. His ministry in the undertaking of it, was not a dignity, a promotion, a revenue (Matthew 20:28). It is true, it is issued in glory, but no…

So the Redemption that is by Christ, is everywhere said to be a price, a Ransom. See (Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 Peter 1:18, 19). It is the deliverance of persons out of a state of captivity and bondage, by the payment of a valuable price or…

Some think respect is had to the several sorts of Gospel Baptism, which are usually referred to three heads, fluminis, flaminis, sanguinis, of the Water by external washing, of the Spirit by internal purifying, of Afflictions to blood by both. And thus the Apostle should not onl…

1. He undertook as the Surety of the Covenant to answer for all the sins of those who are to be, and are made partakers of the benefits of it. That is, to undergo the punishment due to their sins; to make atonement for them, by offering himself a propitiatory sacrifice for their…

In the designation and contrivance of it. So preparation is sometimes used for predestination, or the resolution for the effecting any thing that is future in its proper season (Isaiah 30:33; Matthew 20:23; Romans 9:23; 1 Corinthians 2:9). In this sense of the word, God had prep…

Answer: There are many causes of this. The first, because oftentimes we know not to ask as we ought (Matthew 20:22). The second, because we ask amiss (James 4:3).

Their condition, [called,] for that both in the construction of the words, and the order of nature, is to be read first. There is an outward calling, and in that sense Christ speaks, (Matthew 20:16): Many are called, but few are chosen; that is, outwardly called in the invitatio…

Hence see the reason why so few are saved, namely, because there are but a very few that attain to sound and saving faith. Many are called, but very few of those many are chosen and effectually worked upon (Matthew 20:16; [reconstructed: Matthew 22:14]). Heaven is well compared…

And therefore if the being his God, moved him to prepare that city against his death (as has been said) then surely his being his reward, does also then take place. I shall not omit it, because it falls in the next chapter, (Hebrews 12:23), that in that stupendous assembly of he…

And if his strokes were procured by our sins, then the desert of them was laid on him, and his sufferings behooved to be the curse that we elect sinners should have suffered; so when he is called their guarantor, it tells that he undertook their debt, and his laying down of his…

When he was buffeted he gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks to him that plucked off the hair, and hid not his face from shame and spitting; Because he knew what was aimed at in all this, and accordingly says (Matthew 20:20) The Son of Man came not to be served, but to s…

The making out of one of these doctrines will make them all out: that Christ's Righteousness is able to justify many, that many shall be justified by it; and that it is His Satisfaction, and Delight that many be justified, and get this good of it. It's said, Matthew 20:28, that…

2. You are the sinner in Law; to this Christ answered, A body you have given me. The Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give himself a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28). The whole Gospel says, Christ who knew no sin, was made sin for us.

Far less are all Adam's sons healed with Christ's stripes, and returned to the shepherd, and Bishop of souls: nor was the chastisement of all the heathens, peace upon Christ. And Isaiah expounds who are these all whose iniquities were laid upon Christ, verse 8: for the transgres…

As my Father has sent me, even so send I you. And what confirms this is, that Christ elsewhere recommends to Officers in his Church, that are in that respect chief among his Followers, the Example which he set in his abasing himself to be as a Servant that ministers to Guests at…

All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no man knows the Son but the Father, and he to whoever the Father will reveal him. The plea of the Lord of the vineyard will ever hold firm and valid (Matthew 20:15). Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own.

Two solemn ones: a ransom; and, a mediatorial sacrifice. 1. A ransom; [illegible] (Matthew 20:28), [illegible] (1 Timothy 2:6), 'Who gave himself a ransom for all.' A ransom is a price given to a judge, or one that has power of life and death, for to save the life of one capital…

And also that we may be true to him, and go on with him and be fortified against all the difficulties we meet with in the way to Heaven (Hebrews 11:35): Others were tortured not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection, that none of these things move u…

We may not therefore dispute the case with God (Romans 9:20). He may do with his own what he will (Matthew 20:15). The second is, that the ways and judgments of God are a gulf, into which the more we search, the more we plunge ourselves: because they are unsearchable (Romans 11:…

Matthew 20:17-19 17. And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said to them, 18. Lo, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes; and they will condemn him to death.

Matthew 20:20-23 20. Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping, “S’enclinant a luy;” — “bowing down to him.” and asking something from him.

Matthew 20:24-27 24. And when the ten heard it, “Les dix autres ayans ouy cela;” — “the other ten having heard that.” they were displeased with the two brethren.

Matthew 20:29-34 29. And while they were departing from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

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…

Acts 13. 48. And these Elect, are but some of those that are called, Mat. 20. 16. Sect. 39 Yet further to clear this it may be observed, that this first Act of Willing may be considered two wayes. (1.) As it wrought in the Will subjectively, and so it is formally only in that Fa…

It alters not the case as to you at all, whether others have it or have it not. You do not deserve damnation the less, than if mercy had never been bestowed on any at all (Matthew 20:15): Is your eye evil, because mine is good? Second, if this objection is good, then the exercis…

My meaning is this: there are many men who have the word of God working much upon them, to the changing of their lives, altering their course, and new moulding of them into an external profession, that yet notwithstanding all this never had saving grace wrought upon their hearts…

Ver. 6. But you have despised the poor, &c. Matthew 20:26. But it shall not be so among you, but whoever will be great among you, let him be your Minister. Ver. 27. And whoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.

How little can our weak understandings apprehend of this majesty? See Philippians 2:8; Matthew 20:21; Romans 8:34; Colossians 3:5; Ephesians 1:20. These are the things which the Apostle sets forth in this expression.

For every man has enough of God, and his mere goodness, however slender his gift may be, so simple a heart has he. But the hypocrites, seeking their own advantage, look askance and play the sluggards: who, when they see they are not the chiefest nor best in the gifts, they murmu…

That he dyed to make Attonement for sin, or reconciliation for iniquity, Daniel 9:24. He gave his life a ransom for the sins of many, Matthew 20:28. 1 Timothy 2:6.

The redemption then that is with God, relates unto a price; goodness or mercy with respect unto a price, becomes redemption, that is actively, the cause or means of it. What that price is, see Matthew 20:20. 1 Peter 1:18.

This general expression then, being compared with other Scriptures, will import these ingredients in her suffering, which occasioned her blackness. 1. That her suffering was heavy and painful; for it was a great drudgery, to be put to keep the vineyards; to be made keeper, was t…

The first is, that there is no passage of this Song cited in the New Testament: but citation of scriptures in the New Testament does not give authority to them. They are cited as having authority, and not to get it; and therefore there are many scriptures in the Old Testament, w…

And no wise Christian will lose a present season for his soul, upon the hopes of much more time yet to come; but will rather say, now is my time, and I know not what will be hereafter; hereafter I may wish to see one of the days of the Son of man, and not see it (Luke 17:22). It…

Those fruits which are preserved on the tree, or in the hoard, are comparatively but an handful to those that are broken in the pound. Alas! 'tis scarce one of a thousand, and such a small remnant of Elected souls has God reserved for glory. I look upon the World as a great Tree…

Nor are they sinners whom Christ came to save (1 Timothy 1:15). Nor are infants any of the many, or of the all, for whom Christ gave himself a ransom (Matthew 20:28; 1 Timothy 2:6). And since the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to infants, and they are to be baptized (Acts 2:38, 39),…

If Christ as our high Priest have received the elect from the Father, "Yours they were, and you gave them to me"; and as Redeemer entrusted to bring them in, he must send the Gospel to them as Mediator, and intercede, that Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers may be gifted w…

Proposition 1. It is proud nature which says, God is to be blamed; for whether the Lord give, or withhold more grace; holiness and spotlessness does essentially convey his sovereignty. "Is it not lawful for me to do, what I will, with mine own," says he who is Almighty (Matthew…

He may make some vessels of honor, and some of dishonor, and all for himself, and his own glory: therefore, when you see that he did not spare the angels, but cast them down into hell, there to be reserved in chains of darkness till the last day; when you see him not sparing the…

Be charitable to the poor, for we know the grace of our Lord Jesus (2 Corinthians 8:9). Wash one another's feet, that is, stoop to the meanest offices of love, for Christ did so (John 13:14; Matthew 20:27-28). Doing all with lowliness of mind, for it is the same mind that was in…