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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 6 › Chapter 1 › Section 2: Of the Brook over which Christ passed.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In this passage observe we these Particulars. 1. The River over which they passed. 2. The Garden into which they entered. 3. The Prayer he there made, and the dolours and agonies he there suffered.
In this passage observe we these Particulars. 1. The River over which they passed. 2. The Garden into which they entred. 3. The Prayer he there made, and the dolours and agonies he there suffered.
1. He and his Disciples went over the Brook Cedron. So it was called (say some) from the same Cedars that grew all along the Banks; or (say others) from the darkness of the Valley, so Kader signifies darkness; and this was done to fulfil a Prophecy;1 He shall drink of the Brook in the way. By the Brook or Torrent, we may understand mystically the wrath of God, and the rage of men, the very afflictions, which befell Jesus Christ: and by his drinking of the Brook, we may understand Christ enduring afflictions, or (as others) his enduring many afflictions, and not a few. 1. That afflictions are understood by waters, we find it very frequently in Scriptures;2 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of Belial made me afraid.—Deep calleth unto deep, at the noise of the water spouts, all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.—And, Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul; and, if it had not been the Lord who was on our side,—then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul, then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
1. He and his Disciples went over the Brook Cedron. So it was called (say some) from the same Cedars that grew all along the Banks; or (say others) from the darkness of the Valley, so Kader signifies darkness; and this was done to fulfil a Prophesie;1 He shall drink of the Brook in the way. By the Brook or Torrent, we may understand mystically the wrath of God, and the rage of men, the very afflictions, which befell Jesus Christ: and by his drinking of the Brook, we may understand Christ enduring afflictions, or (as others) his enduring many afflictions, and not a few. 1. That afflictions are understood by waters, we find it very frequently in Scriptures;