The former part of this chapter acquaints us with the conference or disputation which our Saviour had with the Pharisees about their superstitious observation of the Jewish traditions. These traditions were such rites and customs as were delivered to them by the elders and rulers of the Jewish churc... [ Continue Reading ]
Our blessed Saviour, leaving the Pharisees with some dislike, applies himself to the multitude, and instructs them in. very necessary and useful doctrine, touching the original cause of all spiritual pollution and uncleanness; namely, The filthiness and impurity of man's heart and nature. And that i... [ Continue Reading ]
All along in the history of our Saviour's life, we are to take notice how he went about from place to place doing good. Being now come into the borders fo Tyre and Sidon he finds. poor woman of the race of the Canaanites, who becomes first an humble supplicant, and then. bold beggar, on the behalf o... [ Continue Reading ]
See here, 1. The bitter fruits and sad effects of sin, which has brought deafness, dumbness, and blindness, upon the human nature. As death, so all diseases entered into the world by sin; sin first brought infirmitities and mortality into our natures, and the wages of sin are diseases and death. Ob... [ Continue Reading ]