Chap.3.Setl:.z Looking umo 'feftu. BooK IV· till he was taken up into heaven. In this eledion, or ordination\ here is tirft the perfon by whom they are chofen, {efm Chrift. 2. The place where they are chofen, viz.. in a mountl/ine. 3. The: time when they wer.e chofe·n, after hi< wat•·hing and po!JI.ng all ni~ht, and whm it was cbly. 4· The company out of whom they wel·e chofcn, they were his JijCiple;, and out oft hem he makes this election. . 5. ' '[;he number of them that were chofen, they were twelve, nor more ,nor IeiTe. 6. The end to which tlH:y were cho!en, it was to an At1ofrlefhip, he chafe twelve, whorn he alf~ named Apoftlts. , • 1. The perfon by whom they are chofen is Jefm Cf?rijl. They chofe not themfelves but were chofen of Chrit1; tl is call was immediate, and therefore moft excellent ; but now we look ·not - after fuch cads, and,therefore I £hall no t inGft on that ; only by rbe way, Minifters of-the Gofpel mult be Miniftm of Chrift, either immediately, or mediately called. 2 . The place where they were cbofen, it was on a mwntaine; mountaino.us places have their Gtuation nearell to hea\"en; which £hews that they were called-to high and beav,:nly things: mountaines are open and in view, which £hews rheir miniltry mu!l be pu blike ; they cannot lye hid in a mountaine, a City·that is fet upon a hill is expofed to the view of all : again, mounraines are fubject to winds an:l temr-efis, which fhew their callings muft meer with many oppofitions; and this occaGoned Cl1rifl: to hold up their hearts with cordials, 'B le§ed are )'f n>hen mrn foal! r.'vile ~htrb.px, u. .. you, and perfecute yeu, and Jay all m11nncr of evil againft you fa!Jly · ' · _, for my [11k..e--' f or fo per[ecutcd they the frophets wl~il:h w.ere before you. The: Minifters ofChrifi are {ure of oppofirion, the difciple u not above hiJ 0Vlafter, mr the ferva nt .,/Jove his Lord, if they have called the Jl.1after ofthe houfe Beclz.ebub, huw much more /lit~!! they ell!! them of lm hem hold? 3. The time when Lhey were chofcn, when it wa&, and .1jrer he had contmued all nighc in p;-•• yer to God, be goes not .to e!ectjon, but firfi he watd:· ~s, and prayes all the night b~fore; this £hew; the !Jugular can: that Chrift had in this great employment, wh~t? to fet men apart to witnc{fe bisN~me,and to publiili to the wodl the Gofpel of Chrifi? this he would not do· without much prayer. Sometimes we fi nde Chrifi praying alone, as tMNJhere /g went up ,·r,to ,r mount.zine apart to pray; and here un this moun- M~mh. li• 13•. ':' Hhh 3 taint: , .....,
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