14.Q. What learn you from the latter part of this verse?
A. That the certainty and greatness of our Saviour’s miracles, is an undoubted proof that he was the true Messiah, since God would never so visibly set his seal to an impostor.
15.Q. Why did Christ depart to a mountain?
A. To teach christians, and particularly ministers, to fly worldly honours; and also to set us an example, that when we are beset with temptations of that kind, it is best to retire alone, to pray to God to be delivered from the evil of it.
26.Q. What learn you from what Christ here said to the people?
A. That he knows from what principles and motives we come to hear the word of God; therefore we ought to take heed how we hear.
53.Q. Have the papists any grounds from hence for their doctrine of transubstantiation?
A. No; for Christ tells us in the 63d verse, that the flesh profiteth nothing, and that his words are spirit and life; i. e. they are not to be understood in a carnal but spiritual sense; and frequently by interpreting them literally, men do greatly err.
CHAPTER VII.
1.Q. What learn you from Christ’s walking no more in Judea when the Jews sought to kill him?