Quesnel: Moral Reflections on the Gospels Vol 1

CHAPTER XVI. 247
Christ remove from one region to another, but hu-
mility, charity, and the appointment of God his Fa-
ther. It is an action worthy of a true disciple of
Christ, to withdraw from a place where he has done
some remarkable good, in order to go and do more
in one where he is not known.
CHAPTER XVI.
Sect. I. A S!g?i desii^ed and refused,
" 1. The Pharisees also, with the Sadducees,
came, and, tempting, desired him that he would show
them a sign from heaven,"
Wicked men and heretics, who are at so little
agreement among themselves, unite always in oppos-
ing Jesus Christ, his church, or his truth. Strange
is the malignity of envy, which would engage vir-
tuous persons in good works on purpose to take
occasion, even from thence, to asperse them ! It is
an irregularity and corruption which is but too com-
mon, for men not to apply themselves to consider
and observe the wonders of God and the miracles of
Christ, and yet to have the presumption to desire
more ! This is a piece of ingratitude ; and nothing
deserves more to be rejected of God than the desires
and prayers of the ungrateful.
" 3. He answered and said unto them, When it
is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather ; for the
sky is red : 3. And in the morning. It will be foul
weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowering."
Man is too curious about natural, and too little
concerned about supernatural things ;
these latter, eternal salvation depends !
and yet, upon