344 .Book IV. 1L.ootttng uttto_ 'Jjefu.s. Chap. t. Sea+ your carnal joyes, when you reme~ber, allthis is a~<lyupan earth, it :nnat be far ev'" i there mu!t be achange of all thefe thm&s; here you l.augh, and hereafter you muft howl : no foonerdeath comes, but then you! cry, Farewclworld; Oh intawhataGHlfaml now falling! 3. It inftruds. Ah my Brethren! let's remember, we,. are pilgrims and !hangers upon eart~, and ?u~ way hes over the Brook and Valley of Cedron ; we cannot exped to enter With Chnft tn~o ~lory, b?t we mull: fir~ drink of the Br.aok_in the way; (i.) we muftendure many aff\tdwns, vanety of afl11chons.- You w1ll fay, this ;. an hard faying, wh? can beant? I remember when Jefus told his Difciples of his fufferings to beaccompltlhed at 7emfalem, Petertakes the boldnefs to dehort his Mafter; Be it far Mat. 16. !n. from tbee, Lord, thu foall not be unto thee ; but Jefus thereupon calls him Satan meaning that no greater contradictions can be ?ffered to the defigns of God and Chrift: than to dtfwade us from fuffermgs. There s too much of Peter's humour abides amongft us: Oh this Dodrine of afflictions will nor down wirh Libertines, Antinomi– am, and the like; ~nd hence we believe we have our Congregations fo thin in compari– fon of fomeof thetrS; they that canbreak off the yoke of Obedience, and umiethe Bands of Difcipline, and preach a cheap Religion, and prefent heaven in the mid!! of flowers, and ftrew palms and carpets in the way, and offer great liberty of livina un. der fin, and reconcile eternity with the prefemt enjoyment, ntall have their Schoo!s"filled with Difciples; bur.they that preach the Crofs, a~d fGfferings, and afllidions, · and ilndnefs of an holy ltfe, they ntall have the !Gt ofthetr blelfed Lord, (i.) they ntall be ill thougluof, anddeferted, and railed again(!. Well, but if this be the way that Chrill harh led us, whileft others :lbide at eafe inZion, let us follow him in the valley, and overrhe Brook that is calledCedron. · Thus far bave we obferved Chri!l in the way ; together with his palfage over Ce– dron: we come now to the Garden, into which he emred, and his Difciples. SECT. III. Of the Garden into which Chrift entred. Mat. 16. ;6. ; M Atthetr relaresjt thus, thencometh Jef.-Awith them unto a place called Geth{eman< ; <1< ~""' it fignifies in fpedal, a Field, a Village; but more generally a Plate, as we tranflare it; and this place was called Getbfemane I i.) a valley of fatnefs: Cer– tainly it was amo!Hruitful and pleafant place, feared at rhe fot>t of the Mount of Olives: john 1 s. 1 ; accordingly roht~ rdates it thus, {efM went forth with his Difciples over the Brook_ Cedron, where was a Garden; many Myfteries are included in this Word; and I believe it is not without reafon, that our Saviour goes into a Gardm. As,- I. Becaufe Gardens are folitary places fit for meditation and prayer;· to this end we find Chri!l fometimes on a Mountain, . and fometimes in a Garden. z.. Becaufe Gardens are places fit for re– pofe and reil:, wh~nChrilt was weary wit~ preaching, working of Mirades, and do– ing acts of Grace m Jemfalem, then he reures mro thiS. Garden. 3: Becaufe a Gar– den was the place wherein we fell, and therefore Chnft made chotce of a Garden, to begin rhere the greare!t work of our Redemption'. ~n the £irfl: Gar.den. was the be– ginning of all evils, and in this garden was rbe begmmng of our re!htuuon from all evils ; in tbc fir~ Garden, the firfl: Adam was overthrown by.Satan, and m ~h1s Gar– den the fecond .Adam overcame, and Satan himfelf was by h1m overcome; m the firfl: 'Garden (in was contracted, and we were indebted by our fins to God; and in this Gar– den fin was paid for by that great and precious price. of the b.loud. of God: in the firft Garden man furfetred by eanng the forb1dden frutt; and 111 this G1rden Chnft fwear it out wonderfully, even by abl~udy_fweat: in the fir!t Garden, Death firfl: made its entrance into the world; and m this Garden Ltfe enters to reCtore us from Death to Life again: in the firft Garden A4am's .L1berry to fin brought h1mfelf and all us into bondage; and in rhis Garden, Clmfl: bemg boun~ and fettered, we are .there– by freed and reduced to liberty. I might rhus defcant m. rtfpecr. of ~very Ctrcum– !l:ance; but this is the fum , in a Garden firft begun our !m, and m tlus Garden firft began the Paffion char great\Vork and Merit of our Redemption. 4· Chrc!l ~oes ' - · . efpmaUy
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