Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

The Son of Righteousness, that arose with healing, we shall now see go down in a ruddy Cloud. And in this Piece, as in the former, we must first lay down the Object, and then direct you to look upon it.

THe Son of Righteousness, that arose with healing, we shall now see go down in a ruddy Cloud. And in this Piece, as in the former, we must first lay down the Object, and then direct you to look upon it.

The Object is Jesus, carrying on the work of mans Salvation during the time of his Sufferings; now in all the transactions of this life, we shall observe them, as they were carried on successively in those few hours of his Passion and death.

As this work of mans salvation was great, so we cannot but observe how every piece of it was carried on in its due time, even from eternity to eternity. The very time of Christ's passage depended not on the will of man; for his enemies sought many a time before to slay him▪ as Herod in his Infancy, Matth. 2.16. The Jews in his riper age, when sometimes they took up stones to stone him, John 8.59. and sometimes they would have broke his neck from an hill, Luke 4.29: but his time was not then come. We read of the Paschal Lamb, that it was to be slain on the fourteenth day of the first Month called Abib, or Nisan: ¹at the full of the Moon in the evening or between the evenings; some think this Month answers to our March, others to our April, I shall not be too curious in the Inquisition; for I think it not worth the while: only this, I cannot but observe, that the same day that the Lamb must be slain, must our Paschal Lamb begin his sufferings; and as then it was full Moon, so it notes unto us the fullness of time which now was come; and as it was in such