Chap.z6. Verfe 34. Befire the cock crow, &c.] Christ mentioneth the cock,qui6i tam flrenuum pugnatcrem decebat tale.proconium, faith one. The prefumption of proud flesh never but mifearies : when humble felt-fufpition holds out, and hath favour. The fio- All and ry ofPendleton and Saunders isbetter known, then that it needs /041363, here tobe related. Verfe 35. Though I fnoulddie With the] vat verbs tot ab- Çrda, as one faith of Peters propofitionof three tabernacles, 6-c, Sure it is he knew as little what he Paid here, as there : How much more confiderarely thofè Martyrs, who both Paid it, and did it ? The heavens Jhall as (ion fail, as I will forfrike myfaith, itil. and Mn, Paid WilliamFlower. And, of every hair of my headWere a man, J`t ' 4 0 I Would f ffer death in the opinion and faith, that I am now in, Ii,l,s438. faid john Ardely. Likewife al(i ?Tidall the Difciples] Miffed, as Barnabas af- terward was (Gal.2.) by Peters example. The leaders of this people cause them to erre, I6..9.16. Our Saviour (to teach us what to do in like cafe) t}riveth not with them for the laft word a but lets them enjoy their own over-good conceits of themfelves, till time should confute them. Verfe36. 'Unto aplace, called Gethfeman ] By mount Olivet food this garden : and here he began his pa ¡lion, as well to expi. ate that firft fìnne committed in a garden, as to fanaifie unto us our repafts and recreations. Here, after our Saviour had prayed himfelf into an agony (to teach us to firiveal(i in prayer as for life, and to struggle even to anagony as the word figni fieth, AY v'V"vcs. Colof.4.12.) he was taken guaf ex condiflo, and led into the ci- ò "''s.:. ty thorow the fheepgate (fò calledof themultitude ofsheep dri- ven in by it tobe offered in theTemple,) tobe facrificed, as a lamb undefiled and without spot. Sit ye here while I go and pray ponder ] It may be lawfull therefore in Tomecafes to pray fecretly, in the prefence or with the privity ofothers, fo there be fome good ufe of them. Verfe 37. And he took with him Peter, &c. ] He took the . fame that had feen his glory in the mount, to fee his agony in the garden : that they might the better flick to him. Let no man en- vy others their better parts or places; Pith they have themon no other condition, but to be put upon greater temptations, hotter fervices. ifwe could with another mans honour, when we feel the weight of his cares, as David once did of Saul, armour, accerding ta St M A T T H a VV. 583 wíb
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