...his calling the twelve apostles (the transaction recorded immediately after the words above quoted) that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God." Compare Luke vi. 12, 13, and Matt. ix. 37, 38, x. 1, 2. Our blessed Lord repeated the same solemn words...

...and engagedness of Christ's spirit in this duty. Luke vi. 12. " And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God." And he was often recommending earnestness in crying to God in prayers. In the parable of the unjust...

...The manner in which St Luke states this instance, is thus : — ' And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God ; and when it was day, he called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he...

...and engagedness of Christ's spirit in this duty. Luke vi. 12. " And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God." And he was often recommending earnestness in crying to God in prayers. In the parable of die unjust...

...devotion. To such a place as this did our Saviour himself resort for private meditation, when it is said, " he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God 1 ;" that is, in an oratory, or court of prayer to God. To such a place too does David refer, when...

...office, and of the caution requisite in the appointment of those who are to fill so awful a station. " He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God ; and when it was day, he called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he...

...was found alone wrestling with the angel. When our Saviour was going to ordain his twelve Apostles, " He went out into a mountain to pray; and continued all night in prayer to God." And when his hour of suffering was drawing near, we find him in the garden of Gethsemane, and retiring...

...and engagedness of Christ's spirit in this duty. Luke vi. 12. " And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night iirprayer to God." And he was often recommending earnestness in crying to God in prayers. In the parable...

...while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." At another time " he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God." Says he not this by the institution of the Sabbath? We are not to consider the appointment of the Sabbath...

...many others, which ministered unto him of their substance. vr. 12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray ; and continued all night in MATTHEW X. James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother ; 3 Philip, and Bartholomew ; Thomas, and...