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2. Weariness: as when he sat on Jacob's well to rest him (John 4:6). 3. Sorrow (Matthew 26:38). [illegible], My soul is sorrowful, even to death.

[⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], He began to faint. [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], To be exceedingly sorrowful, (Matthew 26:37). Christ felt the pains of hell in his soul, though not locally, yet equivalently.

This is to aim at God's glory. 2. Then we aim at God's glory when we can be content that God's will should take place though it cross ours: Lord I am content to be a loser if you a gainer; to have less health, if I may have more grace, and you more glory; whether it be food or b…

Christians do not arrive at perseverance when they sit still and do nothing. It is not with us as with passengers in a ship, who are carried to the end of their voyage, and they sit still in the ship; or as it is with noblemen, who have their rents brought in without their toil…

8. If we love God, as we cannot but be fearful of dishonoring him (the more a child loves his father, the more he is afraid to displease him) so we weep and mourn when we have offended him. Peter went out and wept bitterly (Matthew 26:75). When Peter thought how dearly Christ lo…

Thus you see what need we have to pray that the kingdom of grace may come. He that dies without grace, I may say as Christ (Matthew 26:24), It had been good for that man he had not been born. Few do believe the necessity of having the kingdom of grace set up in their hearts, as…

O, if anything can dissolve the heart in sorrow, and broach the eyes with tears, 'tis dis-ingenuity and unkindness offered to Christ. When Peter thought of Christ's love to him, how he had made him an apostle, and revealed his bosom-secrets to him, and taken him to the Mount of…

It troubles them to see any show such a contempt of God and his worship; to see men busy in the shop, but drowsy in the temple. Therefore as Christ said (Matthew 26:40), Could you not watch one hour? So can you not wake one hour?

A covetous man's breath, like a dying man's, smells strong of the earth. As they said to Peter, Your speech betrays you (Matthew 26:73). So a covetous man's speech betrays him.

Christ has sealed all the articles of peace in his blood. Remission of sin flows from Christ's death (Matthew 26:28). This is my blood of the New Testament shed for many for the remission of sins.

We ought not to be Stoics, insensible and unconcerned with God's dealings; like the sons of Deucalion (who as the poets say) were begotten of a stone. Christ was sensible when he sweated great drops of blood, but there was submission to God's will (Matthew 26:39): Nevertheless,…

Qu. 10. How do we in and by them build up our selves in our most holy faith? Answ. By the exercise of that communion with God in Christ Jesus, which in their due observation he graciously invites and admits us to, for the increase of his grace in us, and the testification of his…

And what is not so appointed, neither does, nor can be any part thereof. Of this nature are the celebration of all other ordinances with prayer; for every thing is sanctified by the word of God and prayer (1 Timothy 4:5); of some of them indispensably in the assemblies of the Ch…

And (3) By their celebration is he glorified in the world: And therefore, (4) As he has made blessed promises to his people, to grant them his presence and to bless them in their use: So (5) Being the tokens of the marriage relation that is between him and them, with respect to…

Quest. 17. Which are the principal institutions of the Gospel to be observed in the worship of God? Answ. (1.) The calling, gathering and setling of Churches with their Officers, as the seat and subject of all other solemn instituted worship. (2.) Prayer with thanksgiving. (3.)…

What else was there in his death? That which was the greatest of all was, that he endured a grievous agony with his Father's wrath (Matthew 26:37, 38 and 27:46). What followed after his death?

What is the general nature of sacraments? They are divine instructions annexed to the word, for the teaching of spiritual things (Genesis 17; Exodus 12; Matthew 26). Who is the author of sacraments?

Q. What is the number of Angels? A. Though they be not infinite, yet their number is very great, and to us they are innumerable (Daniel 7:10; Psalms 68:17; Matthew 26:53; Hebrews 12:22). Q. What end and office were they created for?

Now, if we have not soundness of grace in us, in the time of trial, then look, as dross consumes in the fire, when as gold comes out more clear; so shall hypocrisy, formality, and all temporizing profession, come to nothing, in the midst of temptation; when sound grace, and a go…

The one is mentioned and described, Exodus 24, ver. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Deuteronomy 5:2, 3, 4, 5; namely, the Covenant that God made with the people of Israel in Sinai; and which is commonly called the Covenant where the people under the Old Testament are said to keep or break God…

So the Psalmist prophesied that they should do (Psalm 56:5, 6). Some of them affirmed him to have said, "I am able to destroy the Temple of God, and to build it in three days" (Matthew 26:61). Which was apparently false, as is evident in comparing his words with theirs.

Sometimes bodily infirmities may indispose us, sometimes present temptations may do so. Such was the indisposition which befell the Disciples in the Mount (Matthew 26:40, 41), which yet was not without their sin, for which they were reproved by our Savior. But where these things…

For it being the blood of beasts that were slain, in this use of it each party as it were engaged their lives to the observation and performance of what was respectively undertaken by them. (3) Typically, in that it represented the blood of Christ, and fore-signified the necessi…

1. God's records in the Roll of his Book are the foundation and warranty of the faith of the Church, in the Head and Members. 2. The Lord Christ in all that he did and suffered, had continual respect to what was written of him (see Matthew 26:24). 3. In the record of these words…

Answer: A Christian may in private prayer say, My father. This is warranted by the example of our Savior, Matthew 26:39. O my father if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. And Matthew 27:46. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

For the first: before they undertook this matter, they did wisely and warily lay their heads together, to consult of the time and place: and also of the manner of apprehending him. So saint Matthew says, There assembled together the chief priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders…

I confess the Word may not work always in time of hearing: there is a notable instance — My Soul failed when he spake; or rather it may be rendered, because of his speech: now compare it with the time of Christ's visit, verses 2, 3: Open my Sister, my Dove, &c.; while Christ was…

Again, here is condemned the administration of the sacrament under one kind only. For the commandment of Christ is: drink you all of this — Matthew 26:27. And this commandment is rehearsed to the Church of Corinth in these words: do this as often as you drink it in remembrance o…

Is it pleasant to feel the wounds and throbs of conscience? If so, why did Peter weep so bitterly — Matthew 26:75? Why did David cry out of broken bones — Psalm 51?

I only contend for this, That the salvation of the soul is intended also of that salvation which falls out in the midst between these joys (the earnest) in this life, and that ultimate salvation at the Resurrection, that is the salvation of the soul, while separate, as being the…

This is an idol too, for it is contrary to the institution, and to the second Commandment: Christ and his Apostles did use a table gesture, and therefore so should we. For it is said, while they did eat, edentibus illis (Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:22). But if while they did eat, the…

Let me say my opinion with all men's leave, and under correction of the more learned, that night that our Lord was betrayed, he was led to the Hall of Caiaphas, where there was holden an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin, which asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine, received…

We read (2 Chronicles 19:8) that with the Priests were joined some of the chief of the fathers of Israel, to judge ecclesiastical causes and controversies. And however many things among the Jews in the latter times, after the captivity, did wear to confusion and misorder, yet we…

Ans. A Christian may in private prayer say, My Father. This is warranted by the example of our Savior (Matthew 26:39): O my Father if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. And (Matthew 27:46): My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Since the name is therefore the work of men of uncertain standing, let us set aside the dispute and look at the thing itself. From the time when the name "catholic church" was devised by some, it began wonderfully to please all the worshippers of true religion (since there was n…

1 Thessalonians 1:5. Because our Gospel abode with you, not in speech only, but also in power: both in the holy Ghost, as also with much sure persuasion, as you have known what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. Matthew 26. And when they had sung a Psalm, they…

For even as a husband looks that he alone should not only have the heart, but also the reverent and loving behaviour of the body (1 Peter 3:6; Genesis 26:6), so the Lord requires these, both as testimonies of our sincerity, as also helps of our infirmity, when we may convenientl…

Here great ignorance, slothfulness, blockishness, which without all awe and reverence, to presume to partake the same to our great judgment (1 Corinthians 11:28; Genesis 4:5-7). In the action or work itself, we must feel a most sweet and sure confirmation of our faith, of receiv…

4. Consider his ease and willingness to be taken; he goes forth (John 18) to meet the band of soldiers that came with the traitor to apprehend him, and asks them again and again, whom do you seek, and says as often, I am he. He will not suffer his disciples to draw a sword in hi…

The first is that of (John 12:27-28) — now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour; here our blessed Lord is troubled in spirit, and so pinched and hedged in as in a prison, that he is holily nonplussed what to say. The second Scripture is (Matt…

Indeed, considering that it was the wrath of God and His curse due to the elect that He had to deal with, His soul was more capable of being affected with it than His body. Hence He says, when no hand of man touched Him (John 12:27), "Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I sa…

But that the Lord uttered these same words in the garden, and not before, is not apparent; because upon this prayer it is said, Then came there a voice from heaven, etc. A voice speaks to him from heaven: now, Matthew 26, Luke 22, no voice is like to have come from heaven; for w…

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…

And for a confirmation even of this also — that God accounts all the elect justified in his justifying of Christ — we shall not need to go any further than the words of this text, if we do but diligently compare their standing here with that of theirs in that place out of which…

2. Sovereignty of authority and judgment: either of which, may secure us from non-condemnation. 1. Sovereignty of power and might: this the phrase "sitting at God's right hand" implies, (Matthew 26:64), where Christ himself expounds the purport of it: Hereafter you shall see the…

"What shall a man give in recompense for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26). You know what Christ said of Judas, and the same reason holds true in every man that lacks life in Christ (Matthew 26:24). "It had been good for that man he had never been born" — so may we say of all our souls…

These are the things he has given us warrant to pray for. Secondly, according to God's will, this is evident: that whatever we ask, we should ask it with submission to the will of God; so our Saviour says (Matthew 26:39): he asked that which was a lawful thing, and yet because h…

We preach to you Jesus; we offer you him, all lusts laid aside, all sinful corruptions put away, whatever separates between God and us, that being done away: we now offer you Christ, and in Christ plenteous redemption; but if we be without Christ, we are without true life. As in…

You shall see when he raised Jairus his daughter from death to life (Luke 8:51), he suffered no body to go in but Peter, James and John, and the father and mother of the maiden. So these very persons were those who in Mount Olivet were conscious to his agonies (Matthew 26:27), h…

Now whether it came from the one cause or from the other, we must conclude this sleep was a weakness on their parts, but directed and overruled by God for just and wise reasons. 1. It was a weakness and infirmity on their part, for questionless they were to attend with all vigil…