*: Matthew 18:7 Mark 9:42
1: The Church is of necessity subject to offences, but the Lord will
not suffer then unpunished, if any of the least be offended.
2: Our reprehensions must be just, and proceed of love and
charity.
*: Mathew 18:21
3: God will never be utterly lacking to the godly, (although be not
so perfectly with them, as they would) even in those difficulties,
which can not be overcome by man's reason.
*: Matthew 17:20
a: If you had no more faith, but the quantity of the grain of mustard
seed.
4: Seeing that God may challenge unto himself of right, both us and
all that is ours, he can be debtor unto us for nothing, although we
labour manfully even unto death.
5: The most perfect keeping of the law, which we can perform,
deserveth no reward.
6: Christ doeth well even unto such, as will be unthankful, but the
benefits of God profit them only to salvation, which are thankful.
*: Leviticus 13:2
7: The kingdom of God is not marked of many although it be most
present before their eyes: because they fondly persuade themselves
that it is joined with outward pomp.
b: With any outward pomp and show of majesty, to be known by: for
there were otherwise many plain and evident tokens whereby men might
have understood, that Christ was the messiah, whose kingdom was so
long looked for: but he speaketh in this place of those signs which
the pharisees dreamed of, which looked for an earthy kingdom of
messiah.
c: You look about for messiah, as though he were absent, but he is
amongst you in the midst of you.
8: We often neglect those things when they be present, which we
afterward desire when they are gone, but in vain.
d: The time will come, that you shall seek for the son of man, with
greater sorrow of heart, and shall not find him.
*: Matthew 24:23
Mark 13:21
9: Christ forewarneth us, that false Christs shall come and that his
glory will suddenly be spread far and wide through the world, after
that the ignominy of the cross is put out and extinguished.
*: Genesis 7:5 Mark 24:38 1 Peter 3:20
10: The world shall be taken unawares with the sudden judgement of
God: and therefore the faithful ought always to watch continually.
*: Genesis 19:24
11: We must take good heed, that neither distrust, nor the enticement
of this world, not any respect of friendship hinder us the least that
may be.
*: Genesis 19:26
*: Chapter 9:24 Matthew
10:39 Mark 8:35 John 12:25
e: That is, shall save it, so Matthew expoundeth it: for the life
that is here spoken of is everlasting salvation.
*: Matthew 24:41
12: The only way to continue is to cleave to Christ.
*: Matthew 24:28
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Chapter 17
1. Offences. 3. We must forgive him that trespasseth against us.
10. We are unprofitable servants. 11. Of the ten lepers. 20. Of the
coming of the kingdom of heaven. 33. False Christs. 36. After what
manner Christ's coming shall be.
Then said he to his disciples, *1 It cannot be avoided,
but that offences will come, but woe be to him by whom they come.
2 It is better for
him that a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he
were cast into the sea, then that he should offend one of these
little ones.
3 ¶2 Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother trespass against
thee, rebuke him: and if he repent, forgive him.
4 * And though he
sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn
again to thee, saying, It repenteth me, thou shalt forgive him.
5 ¶3 And the
Apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6 And the Lord said, * If ye had faith, as much as is a a grain of mustard seed, and
should say unto this mulberry tree, Pluck thyself up by the roots,
and plant thyself in the sea, it should even obey you.
7 ¶4 Who is it also of you, that having a servant ploughing,
or feeding cattle, would say unto him by and by, when he were come
from the field, Go, and sit down at table?
8 And would not
rather say to him, Dress wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and
serve me, till I have eaten and drunken, and afterward eat thou, and
drink thou?
9 Doth he thank that
servant, because he did that which was commanded unto him? I trow
not.
10 5 So likewise ye, when ye have done all those things, which
are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done
that which was our duty to do.
11 ¶6 And so
it was when he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst
of Samaria, and Galilee.
12 And as he entered into a certain
town, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off.
13 And they lifted up their voices
and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14 And when he saw them, he
said unto them, * Go, show yourselves unto the
priests. And it came to pass, that as they went, they were
cleansed.
15 Then one of them, when he saw that
he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice praised God,
16 And fell down on his face at his
feet, and gave him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
17 And Jesus answered, and said,
Are there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
18 There is none
found that returned to give God praise, save this stranger.
19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath saved thee.
20 ¶7 And
when he was demanded of the pharisees, when the kingdom of God should
come, he answered them, and said, The kingdom of
God commeth not with b observation.
21 Neither shall
men say, Lo here, or lo there: for behold, the kingdom of God
is c within you.
22 8 And he
said unto his disciples, The days will come, when
ye shall desire to see d one of the days of the son of man, and ye shall not see
it.
23 *9 Then they shall say to you, behold here, or behold there:
but go not thither,
neither follow them.
24 For as the
lightening that ligheneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto
the other part under
heaven, so shall the son of man be in his day.
25 But first he
must suffer many things, and be reproved of this generation.
26 *10 And as it was in the days of Noah, as shall it be in the
days of the son of man.
27 They ate, they
drank, they married wives, and gave in marriage unto the day that
Noah went into the ark: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 * Likewise also,
as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they built.
29 But in the day
that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven,
and destroyed them all.
30 After these
examples shall it be in
the day when the son of man is revealed.
31 11 At that day he that is upon the house, and his stuff in
the house, let him not come down to take it out: and he that is in
the field likewise, let him not turn back to that he left behind.
32 * Remember Lot's
wife.
33 * Whosoever will
seek to save his soul, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it,
shall e get it
life.
34 * I tell you, in
that night there shall be two in one bed: the one shall be received,
and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall
be grinding together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be
left.
36 Two shall be in
the field: one shall be received, and another shall be left.
37 12 And
they answered, and said to him, Where Lord? And he said unto them, *
Wheresoever the body is, thither shall also the eagles
be gathered together.
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