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A54583	A learned, pious, and practical commentary, upon the Gospel according to St. Mark wherein the sacred text is logically analyzed; the meaning of the holy Spirit clearly and soundly opened: doctrines naturally raised, strongly confirmed, vindicated from exceptions, and excellent inferences deduced from them: all seeming differences in the history between this and the other evangelists fairly reconciled: many important cases of conscience, judiciously, succinctly, and perspicuously solved. By that laborious and faithful servant of Christ, Mr. George Petter, late Minister of the Gospel at Bread in Sussex.	Petter, George.	1661 (1661)	Wing P1888; ESTC R220413	2,138,384	918

Martyrdom being strangled by some Heathen Marriners with a Cable-Rope and dragg'd about the City of Alexandria and then burnt to Ashes Which Story if it be true confutes the Popish Relation of Baronius and others who write that his Bones were stollen out of the Church at Alexandria by some Venetian Merchants in the Year of our Lord 820. and those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Bone-Reliques being before it seems miraculously educed out of their Ashes were laid up with great Veneration in that famous Structure dedicated to St. Mark at Venice But leaving our holy Author's Dust in the secret Chambers of God's omnipotent preserving Power I come in a few words to speak to the Gospel it self and treat a little of the Language wherein the Time of it's Exaration and the Scope of the Book And then I shall descend to the Commentary of this our reverend and grave Author upon it Some have thought it was written in Latine But the general Testimony of Antiquity doth contradict it Hierom in his Preface to the Four Evangelists dedicated to Pope Damasus faith expresly Graecum esse non dubium That without doubt all but Matthew were written originally in Greek With him also agrees the learned Bishop of Hippo in his first Book and second Chapter of the Consent of the Evangelists Horum sane quatuor solus Matthaeus Hebraeo scripsisse perhibetur Eloquio Caeteri Graece that all the rest but Matthew wrote in Greek Wherefore Bellarmin in his Tract of Ecclesiastical Writers concludes from these Fathers ingeniously That the Latine Copies of Mark are but Translations out of the Greek As for the Time of its Writing the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 set out by Scaliger and taken to be the Alexandrian Chronicle is the most proper Book from which we should deduce the time if it were there mentioned But all which that Digest of Years expresseth is that Mark came to preach the Gospel at Alexandria when Claudius Caesar and Kersianus were Consuls To let pass the mistake for Cajus Caligula and L. Apronianus Caesianus who were Consuls in the Year of Christ 38. It is now generally received that he wrote this Gospel before he went to Alexandria and then it must be within a few Years after our Lord's Death But I rather adhere to Eusebius in the second part of his Chronicle disertly setting down the 44th Year of Christ for his coming to that City to preach the Gospel which he had before newly received from Peter's Knowledg and Acquaintance with our Lord's Works and Miracles So that possibly about a Year before or more for we have no certain Foundation for the time was this Gospel penned The Scope of it as of all the Four is to evince the Humanity of our Lord That he was the Messiah prophesied of in the Holy Scriptures That he was the Son of God That he dyed a meritorious Death for his People the Elect of God with many other things too long to be here mentioned in this Praefatory piece but copiously and excellently handled in the ensuing Commentary The Author whereof was born in the famous County of Kent in the Lath of Scray in the Hundred of Selbrittenden in the Parish of Sandhurst near to Newenden where once stood a notable Town of the Britains called Anderida and fortified by the Romans as we find mentioned in the Notices of the Western Empire and garrisoned by a Band of Roman Souldiers called Abulci from whence possibly Apuldore a Neighbour-Market fetcht its Original Name His Parents were Godly and of untainted Reputation who though not of the highest rank yet neither were of the lowest of the People He went to the University of Cambridg as near as I can remember about the sixteenth Year of his Age and was admitted into Trinity-Colledg under the Name and Tuition of that most learned pious and justly renowned Servant of God Mr. Simon Aldrich who preached over the Epistle to the Hebrews and expounded the Ceremonial Law of Moses in a most heavenly and Evangelical manner A Tract which is yet extant in Manu-script and would doubtless prove of most eminent Service to the Church were it delivered from perishing by the Press But to proceed Our present Author was after some Proof of his learned abilities and diligence in study elected Schollar of that ample Foundation and continued in his Scholastical employments till after he had proceeded Master in Arts. The Entrance upon the high and honourable Function of the Ministry he undertook if I call to mind aright about the 24th Year of his Age being then placed in the Rectory of Bread not far West from Winchelsey in the County of Sussex where he spent the whole Remainder of his life being Pastor of that People 44 years In that place through the Lord 's gracious Blessing upon his Ministry he was notably Instrumental in the effecting of a very great Change upon the hearts and lives of the Inhabitants For whereas at the Initiation of his Work amongst them the People for the generality were very ignorant and profane he was a means under God not only to bring them to Civility and Knowledg but many of them also to an eminent pitch in Grace and Godliness It pleased the Lord to exercise this his Servant with sundry tryals and afflictions during his residence among them but none of them took him off from doing the Work of his great Lord and Master So intensely studious was he that having withdrawn himself as much as possibly he could from the Affairs and entangling Occasions of this World he conversed much with dead men in his Study delighting much in that learned Prison from whence his Soul was oft upon the Wing towards Heaven A man he was of great Reading and so constant and diligent in the Work of the Ministry that besides what of his Labours is visible in this Soul-fructifying Comment he preached over divers of the Psalms of David The whole 53d Chapter of Isaiah The Prophecy of Zephany The Epistle to the Ephesians The first Epistle to the Thessalonians The Epistle of James The Epistle of Jude entirely and compleatly Together with Sermons upon the Creed Lord's Prayer Decalogue and Sacraments The Disease which made its Preparative Assault upon him was an Arthritical Distemper in one of his Shoulders the pain whereof encreasing more and more upon him at length reduced him to a fatal Consumption of which he dyed in the 68th Year of his Age. His departure when once Death drew near was speedy and peaceable This Work as I understand at his first entrance upon it was designed for the Publick and prepared for the Press in his life-time But the Providence of God not seeing good that he should out-live the Emission of it therefore for the benefit of the Church some Schollars and Holy Men having viewed it judged it fit for a more general Service Upon whose Account and of divers other eminent Persons Heads of Houses and Doctors in Divinity together with several

learned Divines of both Universities and other parts of the Kingdom to the number of above 200 whose Names would be tedious and improper here to recite though to be seen in the hands of the Undertakers having expressed their earnest desire to promote the Publication of this faithful and solid Commentary It is now at length through the Goodness of God compleatly effected in the which I could do no less as a Brother than be Instrumental To whose Divine Blessing I humbly commend both Work and Reader only beg a few lines to spend upon the Comment it self Thou hast pious Reader exposed here to publick view I think the largest of all the Commentaries that have yet appeared in any Language upon any of the Evangelists As the Gospel it self entertains you with a Discourse of the Life of our Saviour so this Comment was the Work of the principal part of our Reverend Author's Life The Evangelist sets before you the heavenly Feast of the Covenant of Grace This Commentator servs it up with choise and Appetite-whetting Sawces It 's worth our lives to read it digest it exemplify it in a suitable Conversation There is a strain of spirituality runs through it that will render it very acceptable unto such whose holy senses are exercised in the things of God In handling of each parcel of this Holy Scripture after a clear Partition of the words he raiseth distinct and pertinent Observations puts forth every where as occasion requires notable Textual Intricacies and Inquiries which he solves judiciously and distinctly and yet with a neat desirable brevity without obscurity He seems utterly to disaffect all larded pompous and high-flown Expressions and aereal Terms He aims not at diserta but fortia not to level his design at Eloquent Trappings but strong and nervous Explications as Jerom once wrote to Nepotianus Docente te in Ecclesia non clamor Populi sed gemitus suscitet te Lachrymae Auditorum Laudes tuae sint When thou teachest in the Church let not the humming but the groaning of the People raise thy Affections The tears of the Auditors are the praises of the Minister There is scarce any material Point or practical Controversy that may not if I mistake not be found in this excellent Treasury of Divinity Many proper and obvious Objections every where almost raised and no less satisfied Multitudes of Cases of Conscience requisite for the daily use of all sorts of Christians pertinently discussed To instance in a few Here is handled the Minister's Warrant and Call to his holy Function and Office the manner of managing it to his own Comfort the honour of his High-Calling and the Edification of his People Here is discussed that Question When and in what Cases Confession of Sins may and must be made unto men As to Civil Callings How to know the Time when we ought to enter into them The Nature of spiritual Combates The true Apprehension of the state of Adoption How to discern the Devil's Suggestions from the Motions of our own corrupt Lusts The Purity of the Word of God What Comforts and Supports against the troubles of vain thoughts in Prayer How to know that we are sincere in the great and important matters of Religion In what respect either as to Order of Time or Nature or quo ad nos Repentance may be said or not be said to go before Faith Here is stated the difference between John's Baptism and Christ's The Questions about costly Apparel the plentiful Use of the Creatures the Duty of lifting up our Eyes and Hearts to Heaven before and after Meals by the Example of our Lord and what Knowledg the Saints shall have of each other in the Kingdom of Glory are all sweetly opened and pithily answered These 〈…〉 scatterings and gleanings of my present Observation to the vast Multitudes of useful practical spiritual Cases that are here almost in every Leaf in every Sermon held forth for the enlightning of the Understanding the rectifying the Conscience the resolving the doubtful the establishing the weak the comforting the Desolate the stating of Evidences of God's Love and the Administration of an abundant entrance into the Kingdom of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ That the Man of God may be perfect unto every good Work With Commendation therefore of these pious and holy Labours of Love unto the Dews of Zion and thy Soul unto the fructifying Influences of God who alone giveth encrease unto the planting of Paul and the watering of Apollos not willing to detain thee any longer from entring into this spiritual Mine of the Gold of Ophir I rest From my Study at Heaver in the County of Kent Septemb. 3. 1661. Thine in the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour J. Petter AN Alphabetical TABLE wherein is comprised the principal matter contained in the Commentary upon the Gospel of St. MARK A. Account ALL men must give an Account 905 Accusation Silence is the best Answer to a false Accusation 1403 False Accusation 1398 1399 The most innocent are sometimes falsly accused 781 Admonition When it should be severe 1434 1615 1616 Adoption It belongs onely to Believers 585 Derived by the Son-ship of Christ 911 Advice It should precede our Actions 278 Adultery Remedies against it 430 Affections When they are sincere 208 338 When they are inordinate they are an hindrance 218 Remedies against their inordinatenesse 218 Christians are not required to be altogether without them 137 Affliction 532 776 790 1317 1320 1349 1490 1491 1518 1519 1533 1539 1590 1604. Believers not exempt from it 124 128 272 239 Fasting should be used in time of Affliction 123 God sometimes seems not to observe the Affliction of his Children 241 244 379 In it we must trust in God 1535 Christ takes notice of the Affliction of his Servants 375 God sometimes deferrs help 377 God sometimes exerciseth his Servants with many Afflictions at once 382 442 802 916 917 It is often greatest when deliverance is near 383 The Church in this World is exercised with it 376 God exerciseth Faith with it 447 It encreaseth Faith 453 Christians should be prepared for it 514 534 539 1227 1281 1282 1286 Such as follow Christ must suffer it 538 787 Self-deniall a help to bear it 537 Prayer an Effect of it 803 Following Christ in it an evidence of love 1387 Prayer a Remedy against it 1319 God tryeth his People with it 41 210 God gives a happy issue to it 42 245 455 1328 Prayer a Duty in time of Affliction 85 148 803 804 807 1118 It is a stumbling-block to Hypocrites 212 Preservatives against the evil of it 213 1282 In it we are apt to distrust God 243 The benefit of it when sanctified 268 443 541 They come to Christians by Providence 360 1259 Difference between the Afflictions of the godly and the Afflictions of the wicked 370 The Circumstance of time sometimes aggravates it 374 It is twofold 376 Christ is present with us in them 383 Christ's

to life for he thought her to be dead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That she may be saved from death And she shall live These words shew That howsoever his faith was yet but weak yet he had some degree of faith whereby he was perswaded that Christ was able to restore her to life and health if he would but come and lay his hands upon her And as he was perswaded of the power of Christ that he was able to heal her so also there is no doubt but he was perswaded of the goodness and mercy of Christ that he was willing to restore her and would indeed do it if he saw it good for her to be restored to life So much in way of clearing the words Besought him greatly Or Instantly and Earnestly Doctr. In our Suits and Requests unto God we should be earnest and urgent with him to hear us as this Jairus was with our Saviour Christ So the woman of Canaan for her daughter Matth. 15. she would take no denyall Esay 62. 6. Ye that make mention of the Lord give him no rest till he establish Jerusalem c. Jam. 5. 16. The fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much To this purpose also is that comparison used by our Saviour Luke 11. 5. touching him that is overcome by his friends importunity to lend him three loaves at midnight by it our Saviour would teach us to be importunate with God in our prayers and that this is the way to prevail with him The Lord loveth such earnest and importunate suiters he is not like to many great men who love not to be importunately sued unto but such earnest suiters are most pleasing to him and he is most ready to hear them Now this earnestness in prayer consisteth in two things 1. In praying with a lively sense of our wants and with earnest and longing desire to have them supplyed Rom. 8. 26. The Spirit maketh requests for us with groanings unutterable Thus David prayeth Psal 51. 2. In persevering and holding out constantly in prayer not fainting or giving over too soon for he that quickly gives over is not earnest in suing to the Lord. Col. 4. 2. Continue in prayer and watch in the same Luke 18. 1. Our Saviour spake a Parable that men ought alwayes to pray and not to wax faint c. Use This condemneth the cold suits and sleight prayers which many offer unto the Lord. Some pray without any feeling of their wants or desire to have them supplyed only content themselves with repeating the words of some prayer without any affection of heart or inward feeling of the want of that they ask of God yea some are so far from this that they scarce understand the words which they use in prayer This is far from earnest and fervent praying neither is it possible that such should pray earnestly whose hearts are not touched with feeling of their wants c. The prayers of such are but lip-labour and a taking of the Lords Name in vain for which he will not hold them guiltless Others pray by short fits but do not constantly persevere in prayer they faint and give over quickly their prayers are nothing but some sudden wishes or flitting desires quickly vanishing they do not continue and watch in the duty of prayer earnestly solliciting and importuning the Lord. Such cold suiters must not look to speed in the Court of Heaven So much of the manner of Jairus his suing to Christ for his daughter Now to speak of the matter of his request My little daughter lyeth at the point of death I pray thee come c. Observ In that Jairus is so careful of his daughter in this dangerous sickness seeking to Christ for her recovery We may learn this That it is the duty of such as have charge of others to take care of them in time of sickness using the best means they can for their health and recovery This should Parents do for their children Joh. 4. 46. That Noble-man went to Christ and besought him to heal his sick son So also Masters should do this for their servants as the Centurion Matth. 8. went to Christ for his sick-servant These Examples may teach all Parents and Masters of Families to be carefull of their Children and Servants in time of bodily sickness and to use all good means so far as lyeth in their power for their health and recovery Quest What means are they to use for them Answ 1. They are to afford them the spiritual help of their prayers Jam. 5. 16. Pray one for another in time of sickness that ye may be healed especially Parents and Masters should do this for those of their charge 2. They ought carefully to provide outward helps and means of good Dyet and Physick for their bodies such as is needful for them at such times Reas This is a work of mercy which we owe to all so far as lyes in our power especially to those that are of our charge Use 1. This is for the just reproof those who are negligent and careless of using means for their children and servants in time of bodily sickness They never once seek to God in prayer for them as this Ruler of the Synagogue sought to Christ for his sick daughter As for providing for them necessary Dyet and Physick they are also careless of this Touching Physick some think it needless and unprofitable and therefore they will not seek to the Physitian for their sick children or servants but leave them to God who is the best Physitian as they use to say It is true indeed that God is the best Physitian for he is the authour and giver of health and life but this is their ignorance to think that God will give health ordinarily without the use of such good means as himself hath ordained and appointed us to use He can give health without any means of Physick Dyet c. But ordinarily he giveth it by the means and therefore he will have us to use them for our selves and those of our charge in time of sickness Prov. 12. 10. A good man is merciful to his Beast how much more to his Children and Servants Use 2. If such as have charge of others ought to be carefull of the bodies of those of their charge in time of sickness then much more ought they to take care for the sick and diseased souls of those that are of their charge as Children and Servants if they seem to be sick and diseased with sin if they see them dangerously infected with the spiritual diseases of ignorance unbelief hardness of heart stubbornness disobedience to their Governours c. How carefull should they be in this case to afford them the best spirituall Physick they can for their souls how careful to pray for them to instruct them to admonish and reprove them in due manner This is much more needfull than to provide Dyet and Physick for their sick bodies See hen the wretched carelesness of

in two things 1. His earnestness in that it is said He cryed out 2. His great Humiliation in himself testified by his tears or weeping 3. The matter of his Prayer consisting of two parts 1. A Profession of his Faith in Christ Lord I believe 2. A Petition or Request unto Christ to help his Unbelief Of the first The time Straightway This shews his readiness and forwardness to express and testify his Faith by this Prayer therefore he delayeth no time but presently upon our Saviour's words requiring Faith of him he takes occasion both to profess his Faith and to pray for encrease of it Observ Observ True Faith causeth those in whom it is to be ready and forward in the duty of Prayer and seeking to God upon all occasions omitting no opportunity of putting up their sutes to God especially in time of trouble and distress So here the Father of this possessed Child having Faith in his heart was thereby stirred up to be thus forward to make this earnest Prayer unto Christ so soon as ever our Saviour did give him occasion so to do Straightway he cryed unto him c. And as here he was forward to pray for himself so we have heard before how forward he was to make sute unto Christ for his afflicted Child and that not onely once but he renewed his sute again for him with greater earnestness Ver. 22. It was his Faith though as yet but weak that stirred him up to this readiness and forwardness to pray and seek to Christ both for himself and for his Child in this time of his distress So David Psal 116. 10. I believed therefore did I speak I was greatly afflicted c. His Faith stirred him up to pray in his troubles So 2 Chron. 20. 6. this moved Jehosaphat to be so forward to pray unto God in time of his distress because he did by Faith rest upon God for help and deliverance as appeareth Ver. 12. Use Use By this we may examine and try what true Faith is in our hearts Look whether we be ready and forward on all occasions to pray to God in our necessities especially in time of trouble If it be so this argues Faith in our hearts which stirreth us up hereunto but if we be negligent in Prayer especially in time of our Affliction this argues want or great Weakness of Faith Therefore think it not enough to profess that thou hast Faith to believe God's Power and Goodness toward thee and to rest on his Promises but shew it by forwardness on all occasions to seek to him in Prayer A Child that is perswaded of his Father's Love will seek to him c. So here Faith in the heart opens the mouth in Prayer Now followeth the manner of his praying with fervency and earnestness He cryed out viz. With a loud Voice Now by this he expressed the inward vehemency and earnestness of his heart and affections in this his Prayer Observ Observ One property required in true Prayer is that it ought to be earnest and expressed by outward Signs and Testimonies thereof as occasion is offered as by lifting up the Voice or Hands c. Jam. 5. 16. The effectuall fervent Prayer of a Righteous man availeth much Such have the Prayers of the Saints used to be as here of this Father of the lunatick Child So of Moses Exod. 14. 15. Why criest thou unto me Of David who often in the Psalms mentions his crying unto God by Prayer shewing his vehemency and earnestness therein Psal 18. 6. In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God So the Prayer of Hannah 1 Sam. 1. 15. she saith she had powred out her Soul before the Lord. Our Saviour Christ Heb. 5. 7. with strong Cries c. Now to the end our Prayers may be ●ervent three things especially are required 1. A lively sense and feeling of our wants and miseries 2. From this feeling of our wants must arise in our hearts an earnest and vehement desire and longing to have our wants supplied and to obtain the things we ask of God Rom. 8. 26. The Spirit maketh requests for us with groanings or sighs not to be uttered This hath made the Saints of God to pray so ●ervently even the sense of their wants causing in them a vehement desire to obtain the things which they prayed for as David in the 51. Psalm feeling his sins and the want of pardon earnestly desiring it prayeth most earnestly for the same 3. To make our Prayers ●ervent there is required perseverance and continuance in the Duty or Exercise of Prayer not fainting or giving over our Sutes and Supplications too soon for he that presently giveth over is not ●ervent in Prayer We must therefore hold out constantly in the duty not onely praying but solliciting and importuning the Lord again and again in our Prayers for those things we desire especially for great and extraordinary Mercies and Blessings Luke 18. 1. Our Saviour spake a Parable to them that men ought alwayes to pray and not ●aint c. Eph. 6. 18. Pray alwayes and watch unto it with all perseverance c See Isa 62. 6. Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and make Jerusalem a Praise in the Earth Use 1 Use 1. This condemneth the cold and negligent Prayers of many being made without any such ●ervency of heart as should be in them Many make but a Lip-labour of this Duty using words of Prayer without any true feeling of their Wants or earnest desire to have them supplied yea there are many which do not so much as understand the words which themselves use in Prayer much less do they pray with any true feeling or earnest affection of heart Others pray with some feeling and desire of that they ask but it is very cold and negligent Others do too soon ●aint and give over their Sutes unto God they pray now and then for a short fitt or so but are not instant or importunate with the Lord. It is no mervail if such cold and sleight Prayers do prevail little or nothing at all with the Lord Such cold Suiters must not look to speed in the Court of Heaven How should God be affected with thy Prayers when thou thy self art so little affected with them How should the Lord regard thy Prayers when thou thy self dost so little regard them Use 2 Use 2. To stir us up to labour for this ●ervency of Heart and Affections in Prayer And to this end let us strive for a true inward feeling of our Wants and Miseries and for an earnest desire after the things we ask of God This will make us pray ●ervently and earnestly unto the Lord. This will make us not onely to call upon God but even to cry unto him not so much with the Voice of our Mouth as of our Heart This will also cause us to persevere and hold out in our Prayers being instant