Chap.z.Sed.3 Looking unto !fefus. Book IV. upon calls him Satan, meaning that no greater contradictionscan be offered to the defignes of God and Chrifr, theR to dilfwade us from fufferings . There's too much of PftCn humour abides amongfl: us ; Oh this doctrine of afflictions will not down with Libertines, A11tinomians, or the like; and hence I belie-ve we have our congregations fo thin in comparifon of fome of theirs tbey that can break off the yoke of obedience, and untye th~ bands of difcipline, and preach a cheap religion, and prefent heaven in the midft ot ftowers, and fl:rew palmes and carpets in the way, and offer great liberty of living under fin, and reconcile eternity wtth the prefent enjoyment, iball have their fchooles filled with difcip!es; but they that preach the crolfe, and fufferings, and afflictions, and firictnelfe of an hoLy life, they iball have the lot of their blelfed Lord, ( i.) they iball be ill thought of, and deferted, and railed againfi. Well, but if this be the way that Chrill hath led us,whiles others abide at eafe in Zion, let us follow him in the valley, a·nd over the brook that is called Cedron. Thus far we have obferved Chrifi in the wa~ · ,together with his palfage over {edron; we come now to the garden, into which he entred, and his difciples. -----------------~~ SECT. 3· Of the gardm into which Chrift entred. 549 MAtthew relates it thus, then cometh {efus w~th t~em un!oa Mar, 16. 36~ . place called Gethfemane, .;~ ;t4>eiov, tt Ggntfies 111 fpectal, · a field, a village; but more generally ill place, as we tranilate it; and this place was called G ethfemane, ( i.) ill valley offatnef[e : certainly it was a moft fruitful and pleafant place, feated at the foot of the moun_t of ?liv~s :. accordingly Jl!hn relates it thus, {efm oh. 8 1 . went forth wzth h1s difctples over the brook._ C edron, where was 11 J 1 • ' garden; many myfteries are included in this Word; and I beleeve it is not without reafon, that our Saviour goes into a garden. • r. As'- r. Becaufe gardens are folitary places fit for meditation Aaaa 3 and.~
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