1, 3. Being in the mount of _Olives_, _Matth._ xxxvi. 30. _John_ xiv. 31. a place so fertile that it could not want vines, he spake many things mystically of the Husbandman, and of the vine and its branches, _John_ xv. Meeting a blind man, he admonished of spiritual blindness, _John_ ix. 39. At the sight of little children, he described once and again the innocence of the elect, _Matth._ xviii. 2. xix. 13. Knowing that _Lazarus_ was dead and should be raised again, he discoursed of the resurrection and life eternal, _John_ xi. 25, 26. Hearing of the slaughter of some whom _Pilate_ had slain, he admonished of eternal death, _Luke_ xiii. 1. To his fishermen he spake of fishers of men, _Matth._ iv. 10. and composed another parable about fishes. _Matth._ xiii. 47. Being by the Temple, he spake of the Temple of his body, _John_ ii. 19. At supper he spake a parable about the mystical supper to come in the kingdom of heaven, _Luke_ xiv. On occasion of temporal food, he admonished his disciples of spiritual food, and of eating his flesh and drinking his blood mystically, _John_ vi. 27, 53. When his disciples wanted bread, he bad them beware of the leven of the Pharisees, _Matth._ xvi. 6. Being desired to eat, he answered that he had other meat, _John_ iv. 31. In the great day of the feast of Tabernacles, when the _Jews_, as their custom was, brought a great quantity of waters from the river _Shiloah_ into the Temple, _Christ_ stood and cried, saying, _If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth in me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water_, John vii. 37. The next day, in allusion to the servants who by reason of the sabbatical year were newly set free, he said, _If ye continue in my word, the truth shall make you free_. Which the _Jews_ understanding literally with respect to the present manumission of servants, answered, _We be _Abraham_'s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayeth thou, ye shall be made free?_ John viii. They assert their freedom by a double argument: first, because they were the seed of _Abraham_, and therefore newly made free, had they been ever in bondage; and then, because they never were in bondage. In the last Passover, when _Herod_ led his army thro' _Judea_ against _Aretas_ King of _Arabia_, because _Aretas_ was aggressor and the stronger in military forces, as appeared by the event; _Christ_ alluding to that state of things, composed the parable of a weaker King leading his army against a stronger who made war upon him, _Luke_ xiv. 31. And I doubt not but divers other parables were formed upon other occasions, the history of which we have not. [2] Joseph. Antiq. lib. 3. c. 10. * * * * * CHAP. XII. _Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth._