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

¹We are apt to cry out on Judas and the Jews; and we think, Oh if we had been in their stead, we should never have done thus; but lay aside a while those Instruments, and look we at the principal cause; had we not an hand in all these actings? did not we conspire his Death, and Apprehension in reference to it? Oh my sins! my sins! these were the Band, the Captain, and the Officers; these were the multitude, a multitude indeed, if I should tell them, I might tell a thousand, and yet not tell one of a thousand; these were the Soldiers that beset him round, the Bulls that compassed him about, the roaring Lions that gaped upon him with their mouths; O my heart, why shouldest thou rise up against the Jews, when thou findest the Traitor, and the whole rout of Officers in thy self? Oh that thou wouldest turn the edge of thy detestation into its right stream and Channel!² Oh that thou wouldst remember thy own ways, and all thy doings wherein thou hast been defiled; and that thou wouldst loath thy self in thy own sight for all the evils that thou hast committed!

¹We are apt to cry out on Judas and the Jews; and we think, Oh if we had been in their stead, we should never have done thus; but lay aside a while those Instruments, and look we at the principal cause; had we not an hand in all these actings? did not we conspire his Death, and Apprehension in reference to it? Oh my sins! my sins! these were the Band, the Captain, and the Officers; these were the multitude, a multitude indeed, if I should tell them, I might tell a thousand, and yet not tell one of a thousand; these were the Souldiers that beset him round, the Bulls that compassed him about, the roaring Lions that gaped upon him with their mouths; O my heart, why shouldest thou rise up against the Jews, when thou findest the Traytor, and the whole rout of Officers in thy self? Oh that thou wouldest turn the edge of thy detestation into its right stream and Channel!² Oh that thou wouldst remember thy own wayes, and all thy doings wherein thou hast been defiled; and that thou wouldst loath thy self in thy own sight for all the evils that thou hast committed!

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