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¹Matthew relates it thus, then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane; [Greek or Hebrew], it signifies in special, a Field, a Village; but more generally a Place, as we translate it; and this place was called Gethsemane (i.e.) a valley of fatness: Certainly it was a most fruitful and pleasant place, seated at the foot of the Mount of Olives: accordingly John relates it thus,² Jesus went forth with his Disciples over the Brook Cedron, where was a Garden; many Mysteries are included in this Word; and I believe it is not without reason, that our Saviour goes into a Garden. As,—1. Because Gardens are solitary places fit for meditation and prayer; to this end we find Christ sometimes on a Mountain, and sometimes in a Garden. 2. Because Gardens are places fit for repose and rest, when Christ was weary with preaching, working of Miracles, and doing acts of Grace in Jerusalem, then he retires into this Garden. 3. Because a Garden was the place wherein we fell, and therefore Christ made choice of a Garden, to begin there the greatest work of our Redemption: In the first Garden was the beginning of all evils, and in this garden was the beginning of our restitution from all evils; in the first Garden, the first Adam was overthrown by Satan, and in this Garden the second Adam overcame, and Satan himself was by him overcome; in the first Garden sin was contracted, and we were indebted by our sins to God; and in this Garden sin was paid for, by that great and precious price of the blood of God: in the first Garden man surfeited by eating the forbidden fruit; and in this Garden Christ sweat it out wonderfully, even by a bloody sweat: in the first Garden, Death first made its entrance into the world; and in this Garden Life enters to restore us from Death to Life again: in the first Garden Adam's Liberty to sin brought himself and all us into bondage; and in this Garden, Christ being bound and fettered, we are thereby freed and reduced to liberty. I might thus descant in respect of every Circumstance; but this is the sum; in a Garden first begun our sin, and in this Garden first began the Passion, that great Work and Merit of our Redemption. 4. Christ goes