After six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, in private to the top of a high mountain.

Immediately the vail of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom; the earth trembled, the rocks split,

but Jesus fetching a deep sigh, said, why does this generation require a sign? I assure you, they shall have none.

then one of the soldiers ran and dipp'd a spunge in vinegar, which he fastned to a stick, and offered him to drink. now let us, said they, see whether Elias will come to take him down.

Immediately the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.

then the devil took him to the top of a high mountain, and in an instant represented to him all the kingdoms of the world.

having finished his sermon, he said to Simon, row into deep water, and throw out your nets for a draught.

he is like a man who in building a house, digg'd deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: an inundation came, the current beat impetuously upon that house, but could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

whatever you have utter'd in the dark, shall be brought to light: and what you have whisper'd in a closet, shall be proclaim'd upon the house top.

and he cry'd out, saying, father Abraham, take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

then let not him that is on the house-top venture down to secure his furniture: and he that is in the field, let him not return back.

sir, said the woman, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then can you get that living water?

The soldiers, after they had crucified Jesus, took his garments (and made four parts, to every soldier a part) and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

and as Paul continued his discourse a great while, a young man, named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was seiz'd with a deep sleep, which quite o'er-came him; so that he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

the type of him that was to come: but yet the damage of the fall does not exactly correspond to the advantages of the divine favour: for tho' through the fall of one, mankind became mortal, yet this is greatly over-ballanced by the favour and bounty of God, in the benevolence of one man, Jesus Christ, to all mankind.

or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?"

thrice was I whip'd with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I was shipwreck'd; a night and a day I was floating on the deep:

This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates

It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice.

by faith Jacob when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff.

the tongue is a brand that sets the world in a combustion: it is but one of the numerous organs of the body, yet it can blast whole assemblies: tipp'd with infernal sulphur it sets the whole train of life in a blaze.