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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 5 › Chapter 4 › Section 4: Of the Holiness of Christ's Life.
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5. Now he discovered his patience, in suffering all injuries; from hence forward to the death of Jesus, we must reckon his days like the Vigils, or Eves of his Passion; for now he began, and often did ingeminate those sad predictions of the usage he should shortly find,1 that he should be rejected of the Elders, and chief Priests, and Scribes, and suffer many things at Jerusalem, and be killed, and be raised up the third day, and in the mean time he suffers both in word and deed; they call him a Glutton, a Drunkard, a Deceiver, a Sinner, a Mad-Man, a Samaritan, and one posed with a Devil; sometimes they take up stones to stone him, and sometimes they lead him to an Hill, thinking to throw him down headlong, and all this he suffereth with patience; yea with much patience he possesseth his soul.
5. Now he discovered his patience, in suffering all injuries; from hence forward to the death of Jesus, we must reckon his dayes like the Vigils, or Eves of his Passion; for now he began, and often did ingeminate those sad predictions of the usage he should shortly find,1 that he should be rejected of the Elders, and chief Priests, and Scribes, and suffer many things at Jerusalem, and be killed, and be raised up the third day, and in the mean time he suffers both in word and deed; they call him a Glutton, a Drunkard, a Deceiver, a Sinner, a Mad-Man, a Samaritan, and one possed with a Devil; sometimes they take up stones to stone him, and sometimes they lead him to an Hill, thinking to throw him down headlong, and all this he suffereth with patience; yea with much patience he possesseth his soul.
6. Now he discovered his glory, in being transfigured on the Mount; however the Person of Christ was usually depressed with poverty, disgrace, ignominy; so that neither Jews nor Gentiles, nor the Apostles themselves could at first discern the brightness of his Divinity; yet now Christ gave an excellent probation of that great Glory, which in due time must be revealed to all the Saints; For taking with him Peter, James and John,