Christ's sermon MATT. VI. seeth in secret, shall A. D. 31. reward thee openly. 19 Lay not up for yourselves *treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rusty doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. z s Pr. 23. 4. 1 Ti, 6, 17. He. 13. 5. Ja. 5. 1. tEcc. 29.11. ch. 19. 21. Lu. 12. 33, 34. & 18,22 1 Ti. 6. 19. on the mount. Junto you,z Take no your Is not the life more than meat, and the body than 1 Pe. 1. 4. raiment? Lu. 11. 34. x Lu. 16. 13. Gal. 1. 10. 1 Ti. 6. 17. Ja. 4. 4. the 26 a Behold 36. fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 1 Ino.2.15. 1 Pe. 5. 7. a Job 38. 41. Ps. 147. 9. ver. 19- kinds. is below; 23 But if thine eye An earthly be evil, thy whole minded man body shall be full of avows that darkness. If therefore his treasure the light that is in and a heathee be darkness, how venly mindgreat is that dark-ed man that ness! his is above. 24 No man can ver. 24serve two masters: A Syriac for either he will hate word signifying money, the one, and love the or riches, other; or else he will here strikhold to the one, and ingly perdespise the y other. sonified. Ye cannot serve God ver. 25and mammon. 25 Therefore I say! Be not anxious. 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the how they grow; they lilies of the field, toil not, neither do they spin. 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. if 30 Wherefore, God so clothe the grass of the field. which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clotheyou, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take or, MATT. VII. on the mount. A. D. 31. b1 Ki. 3. 13. Ps. 37. 25. 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the alla Mar, 10. 30. mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Christ's sermon 33 But bseek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shalltakethought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Ro. 2. 1. 1 Co. 4. 3, d e Lu.6.41,42. e & 23.9. ch. 21. 22. & 18. 1. 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 6 d Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before Swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 7 Ask, and it shall & 16.23,24. be given you; seek, Ja. 1.5. 6. and ye shall find; 1Jno. 3.22 knock, and it shall & 5. 14, 15. be opened unto you: f Prov. 8.17. 8 For f every one Jer. 29, 12, that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 13. g Lu. 11. 11, Ge. 6. 5. & 8. 21. CHAP. VII. 1*JUDGE anot, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: ver. 1and bwith what mea-Christ here sure ye mete, it shall forbids both rashness and be measured to you severity, or again. rigour in 3 And why be judging of holdest thou the others. mote that is in thy ver. 3 brother's eye, but Mote, a considerest not the small failing; beam, 9 gOr what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how beam that is in thine great crimes. to give good gifts own eye? unto your children, MATT. VII. Christ's sermon A. D. 31. i Lu. 6. 31. on the mount. corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that k Lev.19.18. bringeth 12 Therefore all things i whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the lawm and the prophets. 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go thereat : 14+Because strait is ch. 22. 40. not forth Ro. 13.8,9, good fruit is hewn 10. down, and cast into the fire. Ga. 5. 14. 1 Ti. 1. 5. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lu. 13. 24. † Or, How. Je. 23. 16. 5. 11. 24. Lord, Ma. 13. 22. in ch. 24. 4, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will Eph. 5. 6. of my Father which 18. Col. 2. 8. 2 Pe. 2. 1, 1 Jno. 4. 1. Mic. 3. 5. Ac. 20. 29, is in heaven. 2, 3. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we "not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? ch. 12. 33. 44. the gate, and narrow o 16 pYe shall know them by their fruits. Do q men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so revery good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit, neither can al Jer. 11. 19. ch. 3. 10. Lu. 3. 9. 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. depart y from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore zwho12.soever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. & 13. 25. Jno. 11.51. 1 Co. 13. 2. x ch. 25. 12. z Lu. 6. 47. 25 And the rain descended, and, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and MATT. VIII. Christ cleanseth it fell not for it was] founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the raind descended, and the f Ps. 107. 20. floods came, and the winds blew, and beat ver. 26 upon that house; and it fell and great was the fall of it. Our only ground of security in the day of trouble, is to build by faith upon 28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the a people were astonished at his doc-Rock of trine: 29 bFor he taught them as one having authority, and not as the Scribes. Christ, the Ages. ver. 28 His manner terate cuta- CHAP. VIII. 1 WHEN he was come down from the mountain, great mul- ver. 3Such is the titudes followed him. sovereign a And, behold, authority of there came a leper Christ, that and worshipped him, a single word saying, Lord, if thou enough. wilt, thou canst make me clean. from him is ver. 5 An officer 3 And Jesus put in the Roforth his hand, and man army, touched him, saying, who, comI will; be thou clean. manded an And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. hundred men. the Leper. 4 And Jesus saith unto him, b See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. 5 dAnd when Jesus was entered into Ca pernaum, there came unto him a centurion beseeching him, 6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not wor thy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but fspeak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them 11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the children of the kingdom shalli be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, 1 Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. Is. 2. 2, 3. Ac. 10, 45. & 11. 18. & 14.27. Ro. 15. 9. Eph. 3. 6. h ch. 21. 43. i ch. 13. 42. 50. & 22. 13. & 24.51. & 25.30. Lu. 13. 28. 2 Pe. 2.17. Ju. 13. 39. Mar. 1. 29, 30, 31. Lu. 4. 38, 1 Co. 9. 5. Mar. 1. 32. Lu. 4. 40. n Is. 53. 4. 1 Pe. 2. 24. m o Lu. 9. 57, p Lu. 9. 59. q1 Ki.19.20, 14 And when Je-r Mar. 4. 37. was come into Lu. 8. 23. Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother ver. 12— laid, and sick of a sus fever. The unbe lieving Jews, who had been born and 15 And he touched her hand, and the brought up within the fever left her and pale of the she arose, and minis-visible tered unto them. church. 16 When the even ver. 22— was come, they Let those brought unto him dead in sin many that were pos-who are nabury those sessed with devils: turally dead. and he cast out the diseases. spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick : 17 hat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, n saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. 18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. 19 And a certain Scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thon goest. 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 21 PAnd another of his disciples said unto him, a Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. 23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. 24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, |