Luke reports no more of this than Mark ; but Maithew reports it much larger, giving ns a further Reply of Chriſt to Peter, (See the Notes on Matth. 16. 1g. ) which we have there diſcourfed largely upon. I ſhall only ſay here, That if fo great a Point as Peter's Primacy had been underſtood by Chriſt's Diſciples of that Age, to have been ſettled by that Anſwer of our Saviour, it 1s likcly two of the Evangeliſis would not have omitted an Ac- count of it, If they had forgotten 1t, there 1s no doubt but ſome or other of Clirift's Pifciples would have put them in mind of it. Our Saviour's Charge, that they ſhould tel] no Man of him, ſcemeth to hint; that although our Saviour was willing to be taken notice of as a Prophet, yet he was not wil- Iing as yet to be taken notice of as the Meſſiah, or Son of God ; winch latter Matth-w reports as added to his Confeftion 3 and perhaps both 3{1rh and Lave fn their following Words, give us the Reaſon ; for if we obſerve it, he immediately falls into a diſcourſe of his fi.Fering + and he might poſſibly think, that a weak Faith of his Divine Nature would be overthrown by the ſnghtof Ins ſubſcoquent Sutferinzs, So that he reſerved the pub- lication of himſcit to be the Son of God, until the time when C as the &poſtie faith, R2. 1. 4. ) he was declared ſs with Power, - 3a to the Spirit of Holineſs, by his Reſurrection from the Doac »
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; 31 Ard* he beganto teack them, that the Son of 21. & 175, Man mult ſuffer many things, and be reje&ed of the 22. elders,and of the chief prieſts and of the {cribes,and be kijled, and after three days riſe again.
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icording as they were able to bear, or to hear 1yhaot 1. Gn unto them. He did not at the firſt teach them Nat AA ſuffer Death the Dodrine of the Croſs of Chriſt, was IM Wine, not fit to be put into old Bottles ; yer neceiiy;e; « taught thew, lcſt when they ſaw it ſoon after, they j}; 351," 1 cen” offended, as indeed they were to ſome depreo, 1, +. ſtanding the Premonition they had of it. With the 1;
of his Suffering, he joyneth aiſo the Dofrine of his Ru oc. the third day « ſo ſaith Matthew ; Mark ſaith after thru 1...
uz, which feemeth to be a difference between the two þ 1, gelilts, and alſo a Difficalty, when ic% certain thit our <5. did not lie three entire days in the Grave. But cither Mah _ kons the ttme from his firſt being betrayed and upprehen py it was after three days, and Matthew ſpeaketh only of the tr... which he lay in the Grave, that was but part of three dc, elſe it was the fault of our Tranſlators to tranſizte pg) ;; becauſe indeed it often fo ſ1gnifies, when as it fometin;c5 lis difie ?n, which had better fitted this Text to make it agree with Wat. thew. This 18 Grotizs and B2za's Obſervation, (fec his Notes on _ Text,) and is abundantly juſtified by Matth. 27, 64. where Non Adverſaries dcfired of Pilate, that the Sepulchre might be wo faſt, tos Tis peiTYs 17% eas, wntil the third day; becaule hc hag ſa'd, while he was alive, ws]e Teas nwegs tyler, after ty * days I will ariſe, which 1f they had undcrftood of, after tha thira day fully ſpent, they would not have petitioned, that t.. Sepulchre thould have been made faſt only until the third 7, . out it 15 plain they underſtood it, the third day he would Site So after three days, here is, After the third day 3s come, not 1+. ter the third day is paſt ; which neither agrees with Matches: nor yet with the Truth, Ifany deſire further to make out th. Notien, he may read the Learned Beza his larger Notes on thi; Verſe. |
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32 And he ſpake that ſaying openly. And Peter rook him, and begen to rebuke him.
33 But when he had turned about, and looked yr his diſciples, he rebuted Peter, iaying, Get thee vehind me, Satan : for thon ſayourcſt not 14> things that be of God, but the things which be of men.
It is from hence,manifeſt, that notwithſtanding the Con. on of Peter, that he ww the Chrift ; yet they had a very in;:;. te knowledge of the buftnels of the Redemption of Mai the Blood of Chriſt, and a very imperict Faith, as to thy 151. poſtatical Union of the Pivine and Hnmanc Nature 18 the Perſon of the Redeemer : For had Peter known theſe © ne. would have ſeen a neceſſity of Chriſt's Dying and þ1 rection from the Dead, in order to the Redemotion and 5 tion of Man ; and would nreiihcr have diffraded our - from it, nor doubted of the Fruth of whit was ſpoken t- who was the Truth, and could not 1lye, Our Saviout's <:11., him, & gegrers, thou ſavoureſ] wt, might have been mor 1:- vourably tranflated, 7h» underſiandeft int, or, thin minte(t r:; and muſt not be underitood of a total ignorance, or repard'cw neſs, or not relithing, bat of a partial knowledge, the wait ci 1 due regard to, or favour of the thivgs of God. Thou pre- ferreſt thy carnal AtffeCtion to me, and indulgeſt thin 0a Deſires to the hinderance of 'the Honour and Glory oi 6c, and the Salvation of Souls, which I came to purchaſe by thei: my Sufterings, and fo art a Satan, an Adverſary to mr, wi» -ame to fulfill the Will of my Father ; and muſt not therefore zive the leaſt car to thee, who, in what thou ſayeſt, doſt i: teek, and take care to plcale thy ſelf. This leadeth him to ti tollowing Diicourſe,
34 And when he had called the people unto hir, with his diſciples alſo, he ſaid unto them, Whoſcere will come after me, let him deny himſelf, and taie vn his croſs and follow me.
Our Saviour hearing P-tcr fo ſtumble at the new:
him and the reſt of the Crots which himſeif was to onde s and taking notice of his exce-ding fondreis to gratitie him. co the prejudice of a far greater Good 3 he no:; tejls them Of Law of his Diſcipleſpip, that as he was not to pleaſe im}, 5 to decline Afftictions for the Goſpel, fo neither mult ay 59
would be his Followers z they mnſt all deny them lves, ti: ! the Croſs and follow him. And bccauſe this was an 1;-r4 ©! ing to bleſh and Blood, and what was to be their cert i! F he preiſcth it upon them by ſeveral Arguments to the £29 cl
this Chapter. Sce more in the Notes on Marth, 12, 32. & ir 24»
25 For* whoſoever will ſave his life, ſhall Joſe ': '2
but whoſoever ſhall loſe his life for my fake; and ti"* goſpels, the ſame ſhall tave ir.