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14 faich the fame, Ch. 10. 22. So doth Luke, Ch. 18, 23. He was forry char he had ever propounded the Queſtion, or that the Terms were ſuch as his coverous Heart could nor comply with, He would have had Heaven, 1t he could have had it cheap: Or *- may be he would have parted with ſomerhing for. it, bur to G11 1/1 was an hard Saying : Or he was forry to fee himlelt fo con;ured, and convinced, thar whatſoever he Dreamed, he had or kep: che Commandments, and had nor an Heart prepared to obey-God in one thing. Ir 15 not laid, Bzcauſo he loved hy great P:1/ſin;, bur, for he had great Pofſeſoms + Yer the firſt 1s 1h- -cnded. Ic is an hard thing for us.co have a great Concern 1n he World, and not to love 1t more than God. He went away, he would hear no more of that Ditcourſe: How many would hive Heaven if they might have ir upon their own Terms ? How fy are Willing to come up to Gad's terms? How falſe and Acceittul are our Hearts? They will perfivade us we have done all, when indeed we have done noting, nor are pre- pared to Jo any Thing in Truth and Sinccrity? We are not P. f4, fmerhing is wanting to us, till 79 Will, ro do wharſoc- ver God requirerh of us, be prefent wich us, tho, when it comes r00, We may Want Strength to pertorm.
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Mark ſaith, Chap. 10. 23. And Fefiws looked round about, and (id to his Diſciples, How hardly ſhall they that have Riches enter in- i) the Kingdom of God ? And the Diſciples were aſtoniſhed at his Words, but Teſs anſwereth again, and ſaith unto them, Children, hw hard is it for them that truſt in Riches, to enter into the King- dim of God? It s eaſier for a Camel to go through the Eye of a Needle, than for a rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of God, Luke ſaith, Ch. 18.24. And when Jeſus ſaw that he was jſorrowful, he ſaid, Hw: hardly (hall they that have Riches, enter into the Kingdom of God ? Fy it 3s caſter for a Camel to go through a Needle's Eye, than for a Rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of God, Our Lord ſeeing the young Man that came co him fo briskly wich fuch a Zeal for his Foul, and appearing Warmth of Defire to be inſtructed in the righe way to Heaven, and asking tor a 7 ro be fer him: Firſt, what good thing he ſhould do in order co that end, then calling tor more, when our Saviour had reckoned up fome Command- ments to be obſerved, What lack T yet, ſairh he? Go away quite dampt and forrowtul, when our Saviour faid nor to him, Give thy Body to be burned, no, nor yer, cut off 2 Right Hand, or Foot, or bluch out 4 right Eye. Only part with ſome of thy Circumſtan- ces, Seil wh.tt thou haſt, and give to the Poor, A thing he might have done, and have been a Man ſtill perte& both as co his Eflen- tial and Intezral Parts, He hence takes occation -ro diſcourſe Kich-his Diſciples, che Danger of Riches, and the il] Influence they have up>n Men's Souls, with Relarion to their Erernal Weltare. Luke and Mark. fay, he tpake it by way of Queſtion, How hardly ? Matthew delivereth ir as ſpoken poſitively. 4 Rich Man ſhall Þ.;/1v enter, &. The Senfe 1s the fame, only the Interrogation ſeems to aggravate the Difficulty, and ro tortifie the Affermation, + much as to ſay, A Rich Man ſhall very hardly enter into rhe Kingdom of Heaven. The Diſciples were aftoniſhed at this, (faith Mark which made our Savi>ur ſay 1t over again, with a little Expotition. - How hard is it for them that truſt in Riches, to enter into the Kingdom of God? Which Expofition 1s fo far from a Corrcthon, or Abatemear cf the Severity of his former Speech, that ſome judge it rather a Confirmation of it; for he goes on with ſaying, If #s eafrer for a Camel to go through the Eye of a Needle, Bur why ſhould this aſtoniſh the Diſciples, who had no real;n up2n this Account to Fear for themſelves, who had for- laken all to follow Chriſt? Poſſibly, becauſe ic was fo contrary tothe common Opinion of the World, who did not only as in Mil 1hy's time, call the Proud Hzppy ; but thought God had ſcarce any Favour for any bur the Rich : In Oppoſicion co which,Chrilt, Lube 5, 20, 24. Bl:ſſeth the Por, and pronouncerh Woes to the Rich, as havins received their Conſolutim. As to the Words them- ſelves, the Detizn of our Saviour in them was not to condemn Riches as in themſelves Damnable, ner yer to deny Salvation to
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