Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.

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When the mother of James and John reque∣sted the Lord, (Mat: 20.21.) That her sons might sit, one on the right hand, the other on the left; our Lord replyes to them (as it seems at the first view) quite besides the purpose, asking them a question little pertinent to that they treated him about; for what appertained their drinking of the cup he should drink of, & being baptized with the same baptisme, to the sitting at his right hand and left, in his King∣dome? but if we consider it, it will appear very

much, for these young men were solicitous about what was to be had, not what was to be done; their eyes were upon the end, more than the way; the reward, than the work; thought more of reaping, than sowing, yea, before they had sown; therefore our Lord remembers them of the Teary seed-time, puts them in mind of the bitter cup and bap∣tisme, wherein the deep waters should go over their soul; 'twas time to tell them of the Stony, Thorny Rode, that talkt of setting down, before they had well set out. What store of Suitors would Heaven have, if there were no more to do, but go in and possesse the Land, if there were never an Anakim to be fought with first; beside, the way to glory is through the place of a skull: Christ must suffer these things, and enter into his glory, to the Throne over the Thorne; If we suffer with him, we shall be glorified together; they that are before the Throne of God are such as came out of great tribulation, and have wash∣ed their Robes, and made them white in the bloud of the Lamb.