51 And it came to paſs, # when the time was come * park 16. char he ſhould be received up, he ſtedfaftly {er his face to 19. 0 to Jerutalem, ACts I, 2 From this to ver. 87, we have a piece of Airy recorded by no other Evangeliſt but Lube; but is of great uſe to us, both to let us know, that our Saviour /aid down hy tife, n» man took it from him ; ard to let us ſee to what heighth Differences about Religion ordinart- ly ariſe, and what Intemperateneſs 1s often found, as to them, in the Spirits of the bcſt of people, as alſo what the Will of our Grand Mattcr 1s, as to the Government «<f our Spirits in ſuch cafes. The going up of our Saviour to Feruſalzm at this time, was his laſt Jour ney thither. When the time was come that he fuld be taken ap, &y Ty G2 fATANPBIR Tas Nutpd; F ayaninilies avs. TN Is, when the tune was drawing nigh, when Chritt thould atcend up 1nto Hea- ven; ſo the Word is uicd Mark 16. Ig. Ads 1. 11. 1 T7. 3. i5- But why doth the Evangeliſt expreſsit thus? Why doth he nct lay. her he was to ſuffer, but skippeth over his Death, and only ment: oneth his Aſcenſion, 1. Thai 1s included, Chriſt wzs tirft to iifier, and then to enter jnto his Glory. 2. Chriſt's Death is called a !ifting up from the Earth, John 12. 32. 3. What if we ſhould fay that Chiiſt's Death is thus expreſt,to let us know that the Death of Chriſk was to him a thing that his Eye was not ſo much upon, as the Glory which he 1mmedately was to enter into after ; ſo as he calls his very Death a taking up, as that which immediately preceded jt, thereby teaching us to over-look Sufferings and Death, as not worthy to be named or inentioned, and to look only to that taking up into our Father's Glory, which is the portion of all Believers. When they dye, they are but taken up from the Earth, and though our Bodics ſtill ſtay behind a while, Death having a power over us, yet of them alſo there ſhall be a taking up. Upon both which takings up our Eyes ſhould be ſo fixed, as to over-look all the Sufferings of this Lite as not worthy to be named. | He ſtedfaſtly ſet hy Face fo go to jeru- ſalem.] Some think this was not our Saviour's laft motion thither before his Paſſion 3 but then it would nor have been ſaid @pgzowmr Ereufe, be ſet his Face, or he confirmed bis Face. He was now 1n Galilee, Jeruſalem (that killed the Prophets_) was the place defigned for his Sufferigg 3 betwixt Galilee and Jeruſalem lay Samaria, througt: which he was to pats. ;
52 And ſent meſſengers before his face, and they went, and entred into 2 village of che Samaritans to make ready
for him, - Sy ; 53 And they did not receive him, becaule his face was
as though he would go to Jeruſalem. |
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