Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 19:22

22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Mark saith the same, Ch. 10.22. So doth Luke, Ch. 18.23. He was sorry, that he had ever propounded the Question, or that the terms were such, as his covetous Heart could not comply with. He would have had Heaven, if he could have had it cheap: Or it may be, he would have parted with something for it, but to Sell all was an hard Saying! Or he was sorry to see himself so confuted, and convinced, that whatsoever he Dreamed, he had not kept the Commandements, and had not an Heart prepared to obey God in one thing. It is not said, Because he loved his great Possessions, but, for he had great Possessions: Yet the first is intended. It is an hard thing for us to have a great Concern in the World, and not to love it more than God. He went away, he would hear no more of that Discourse: How many would have Heaven, if they might have it upon their own terms? How few are willing to come up to Gods terms? How false and deceitful are our Hearts? They will perswade us we have done all, when indeed we have done nothing, nor are prepared to do any thing in Truth and Sincerity? We are not Perfect, something is wanting to us, till To Will, to do whatsoever God requireth of us, be present with us, tho, when it comes too, we may want strength to perform.