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An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on…An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on…
An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reverend divine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his own hand ...An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reuerend diuine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his owne hand ...
London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for John Bartlett, 1630London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for Iohn Bartlett, 1630
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
More particularly in this End consider we four points.
More particularly in this End consider we foure points.
1. Whose good and instruction it was he aimeth at. 2. The title that he giveth himself. 3. The ground whereupon he doth this work. 4. The Place.
1. Whose good and instruction it was he aimeth at. 2. The title that he giueth himselfe. 3. The ground whereupon he doth this worke. 4. The Place.
1. Christ labours to instruct those that are contrary minded, his adversaries the Scribes and Pharisees that cavilled at his Preaching. He might have rested himself in the approbation of his Heavenly Father, the testimony of his own conscience, the witness of his Disciples that his Word and Doctrine was true, and in that former proof of Divine power which he had given them, in discovering unto them the thoughts of their hearts: nevertheless seeing them through blindness, and malice, not yet throughly instructed, he labours by further proof to show them their error, and to bring them to knowledge of the truth. Thus he deals with them again; Mark 3.22. &c. Convincing them of error by many arguments: and generally we may observe of Christ, that neither the dullness of his hearers, their impious scoffing, nor their slanderous cavilling, did hinder him from striving to instruct them further; as Nicodemus his dullness. The scoff ⟨p. 159⟩of the woman of Samaria; Joh. 4.11