Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

I cannot pass over this passage of the Brook without some Use or Application to our selves.

1. It informs. Methinks this Valley, and this Brook of Cedron is a right representation of a Christians Life; Jesus went forth with his Disciples over the Brook Cedron: ¹What is our life if we are Christ's, but a passage through a vale of tears, and over a Brook of several afflictions? Many are the troubles of the righteous. ²The very word Cedron, which signifies darkness, denotes this state, an horror of great darkness was said to fall on Abraham, and then said God,³ know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a Land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years. As God made the evening and the morning the first day, and second day, and third day, &c. See, O the life of Gods Saints is as the evening of troubles, and their happiness hereafter is as the morning of Glory; God's worst is first, with those that are his; the way to Canaan is through the wilderness; the way to Zion is through the valley of Baca. Through much tribulation we must enter into the Kingdom of God. ⁴In the world ye shall have tribulation, saith Christ; yea, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution, saith the Apostle;—Our rest is not here in this world; what is this world, but an Ark of travel, a school of vanities, a fear of deceits, a Labyrinth of error, a barren wilderness, a strong field, a tempestuous sea, a swelling brook, a vale of tears full of all miseries?

1. It informs. Methinks this Valley, and this Brook of Cedron is a right representation of a Christians Life; Jesus went forth with his Disciples over the Brook Cedron: