Cor at leaſt one of the ſame import) Matthew alfo gives us 1 ac- count of it with more circumſtances. See the Notes on Mctthew 15. 14. | As he was alone praying.) That is, free from the mult: tude ;. for the next Words tell us; the Diſciples were with him. The
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22 v. is not to be found in the other Evangeliſts z and if Lulz hath Of reported theſe Words in the right order of time, they afford us 4 Chriſt probable reaſon of what is v. 21. Why Chriſt would not yet be publiſh- their $ ed, as the Chriſt, or the Son of God. Becauſe he was to ſuffer, and it fir ma might much have ſhaken Peoples Faith, as to that Point, if they hd Paxiſe ſcen the Perſon, whom they believed to be the Son of God, ſuifer- Prophe ing ſuch things, and ſo deſpitefully uſed as he wasz he theret-re «- Will, tired to be concealed as to that, unti] he ſhould be declare: to be #4: God ht Son of God with Power, by his Reſurre&ion from the Dead. _ ; | 0 23 And he ſaid tothem all, If any man will come after Peter &
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me, let him deny himſelf, "ind'take up his croſs daily, and | follow me. F — _ - 24 For whoſoever will fave his life, * ſhall lot? 1%, * but whoſoever will loſe his life, for my take, the tame ** {hall fave it.
We have met with theſe Words before, Matth, 15. 24, 25: NX 1% 38, 35. Mark 3. 34, 35. Sce the Notes on thoſe places.
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my words, of him ſhall che ſon of man be aſhamed when it 3- 38: he ſhall come in his own glory and jz h# fathers, and of « 2+ che holy angels. .
27 Bur | cell you of a truth, there be ſome ſtanding here which ſhall not taſte of death cill they ſee the king- dom of God.
Se the Notes on Matth. 16.28. Mark g.1i. Luke ſeems here to have recorded ſeveral layings of our Savivur, ſpoken not all at the 44:1 IMC.
23 And it came to pals about eight days after theſe
0s, 11125 | {ayings, he took Peter, and John, and James, and went
up into 2 MOuntraln to pray. .
29 And as he prayed, the faſhion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and gliſtering.
' 20 And behold, there talked with him rwo men, which
were Moſes and Elias. 31 Who appeared in glory, and ſpake of his deceaſe which he ſhould accompliſh at Jeruſalem, 1.2.17 32 But Peter, and they thar vere with him, * were I-5 heavy with ſleep : and when they were awake, they ſaw his glory, and the two men thar {tvod with him,
33 And it came to pals, as they departed from him, Perer ſaid unro Jeſus, Maſter, it is good for us to be here ; and let us make chree tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moſes, and one for Elias, not Knowing what he {aid,
24 While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud and over- ſhadowed them : and they feared as they entred into the
cloud.
And there came a voice out of the cloud, ſaying, lt317- + 1 his is my beloved Son, hear him.
26 And when the voice was paſt, Jefus was found alone : and they kept zr cloſe, and told no man in thoſe days any of thoſe things which they had ſeen,
See. the Notes on Mat. 17. 1, 2, 3. andoa Mirk g, 2,
37 And it Came to paſs, that on the next day, when | they were come down from the hill, much people mer | im. | 33 And behold, a man of the company cried out, ſay- 2 | ing, Maſter, I beſeech thee look upon my fon, for he is e | mineonly child.
| 39 Andlo, a fpirir taketh him, and he ſuddenly crieth i our, and it teareth him, thar he fometh again, and brui- 11 ſing him, hardly departeth frem him,
": 40 And | betoughr ——_— to caſt him out, and 7 they could not
i 411 And Jeſus anſwering, ſaid, O faithleſs and perverſe
© +, generation, how long ſhall I be with you, and fufter you ?
v7, bring thy fon hither .
Mey 42 And as«he was yer a coming, the devil threw him
” down, and tare him ; and Jefus rebuked the unclean {pi- rit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his
ll facher.
a4 See the Nutes on Mitth. 17, 14. Mick 9g. 14.
* 43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of any * 0 God ; bur while they wondred every one at all things
mg which Jetus d:d, he f{aich unte his diſciples,
hird I. 4, * Ler theſe ſayings fink down into your ears, | for the fon of man ſhall be delivered into the hands of
ithp!, men.
w_ ;. 45 * Put they underſtood not this ſaying, and ir was
nid from them, thai they perceived it not ; and they feared
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hath | Of the Peoples Aſtoniingment and Amazement at the fight of 4 us 4 Chriſt's Miracles, we often hear much ; of their embracing him, as abliſh- their Saviour, and owning him as the Chriſt, we read little. Thus and it far many of them were coracz indeed the moſt (the Scribes and y had Phariſees, and Sadducees only excepted) believed Chriſt was a great ſufer- Pripiet, a Man ſent of God : authorized by God to reveal his re de Will, and impowered from God to 60 many things which none but ; bet! God had »#jzinally a Power to do. Others were gone a ſtep farther,
\1z. to believe not only that he was 2 Propyet, but that Prophet forc- wid by Abſes, Deut. 18. 1c. -Fohn v8. 21, 45. the Chriſt of God, as Peter expreticd it, he that ſhould redeem Iſrael, Luke 24. 21s That icy had not a truc Notion of the Meſſizs, either as to his Perſon, that the Divine and Humane Nature were united in his Perſon 3 or % to his Worb , that it was not to redeem Iſrael from their bodily ſer- VItade, but from cheir Sins only, will appear to any from the whole tiftory of the Goſpel. Nor indeed doth our Saviour haſten their Faith in this Revelation, I mean, the perfetting and confirming of it, knowing that it would be a great ſhaking to their Faith in him in <115 Notion (and indeed as the M2ſſtas) to ſee him fo ſhamerully abu- ied by the vileſt abjetts of the People (as he was at his Paſſion.) ind then hanging upon the Croſs, and dying, until they ſhould alſo ice him liy tits own Power riſen from the Dead, and beconfirmed concerning the truth of his Refurreftion, Where therefore He ſaw * r * ts red or Precious Faith ſpringing uP, 4s it did 11 Peter and divers
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