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Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter
Expository discourses on the first epistle of Peter Author:John Brown Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: miraculous powers, we find Peter's name holding the first place in the list. He obviously from the beginning was " among the chief of the apostles," and occupied... more » a high place, comparatively as well as really, in his Master's esteem and affection. Of this we have satisfactory evidence in his being, along with John and James, the sons of Zebedee, honoured as a witness of his glory on the Mount of Transfiguration, and of his agony in the garden of Gethsemane. None of the apostles were more firmly persuaded of the divinity of Jesus' mission, more affectionately attached to his person, and more zealously devoted to his cause. When, on many of his disciples, who had expected from the Messiah a worldly kingdom, becoming offended with a discourse in which he had intimated that the blessings he came to procure and bestow were of a heavenly kind, and " going back, and walking no more with him," Jesus turned to his little chosen band, and put to them the touching question, "Will ye also go away?" Peter exclaimed, "To whom can we go but to thee? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we know and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." On another occasion, when our Lord, having inquired of his disciples what were the opinions generally entertained of him by his countrymen, put the question to them, " Who say ye that I am ?" Peter immediately replied, " Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." His warm attachment to his Lord was equally strongly, though not equally wisely, manifested, in his dissuading him from submitting to suffering and death, in his refusing to allow him to wash his feet, in his declaration that though he should die with him he would never deny him, in his singly drawing his sword against a numerous body of armed men in his defence, and in...« less