Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 19:17

17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, * that is God: But if thou wilt enter into life keep the commandements.

Mark omitteth the latter Clause, and only saith, Thou knowest the Commandements: So saith Luke, Ch. 18. v. 19, 20. Our Saviours design here was, not to shew this young Man by this Answer, the way by which it was possible, that he or any other might come to Heaven, but only to convince him of the Errors of the Pharasaical Doctrine; they would not own Christ to be God, nor to be come forth from God, They taught Eternal Life to be obtainable by the Works of the Law▪ and by a fulfilling of the Law, according to that imperfect Sense which they gave of it, of which we heard much, Ch. 5. Now (saith our Saviour.) Seeing you will not own me to be God, nor yet to have come from God, why callest thou me good? There is none Originally, E[illegible: 1 letter]sentially, and absolutely good, but God: There is none Derivatively good, but he deriveth his Goodness from God. How callest thou me Good, whom thou wilt neither own to be God, nor to derive from God? But if thou wilt enter into Life, keep the Commandements. This was the Doctrine of the Pharisees: That men might keep the Commandements. Saith our Saviour, the way to Eternal Life according to your Doctrine, is plain before thee: You say, Men may perfectly keep the Commandements of God. He that doth so shall be saved. Therefore keep the Commandements: Not that our Saviour thought he could do it▪ [illegible: 1 letter]or that there did lye a passable Road to Heaven, that way, bu[illegible: 1 letter] that he might convince him of his Error, and the need he had [illegible: 1 word] a Saviour.