39. And he came out, and went (as he was wont) to the Mount of Olives: and his Disciples also fol∣lowed him.
THis Mount of Olives, in the days of the Kings of Ju∣dah, was defiled with Idolatry, and therefore cal∣led the Mount of Corruption. Christ goes up to that Mount to purge it by his Tears and Prayers. O my Soul! What hath thy Heart been, but the Seat of cor∣ruption! Yet how backward hast thou been to purge that fulsome Stable! What filth and nastiness hast thou suffered to gather there, and yet taken no care to re∣move it! How little hast thou considered of thy Savi∣our's Promise, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! What pains hast thou taken to keep thy Body clean! But, O, how careless of a conscience sprinkled from evil Works! And is not this to be of the Pharisees Religion, who made clean the outside of the Cup, and Platter, but within were strangers to Faith, Judgment and Mercy, and the weightier matters of the Law.