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

2. He asked him of his Doctrine; what his questions were of that, are not set down neither; but probably they might be such as these; Who was his Master, or instructor in that new Doctrine he had lately broached? why he did seek to innovate, and alter their long practised and accustomed Rites? and what ground had he to bring in his own devices in their steads? as Baptism for Circumcision; the Lords Supper for the Passover; himself and his Apostles for the high Priests and Levites, when neither he, nor most of them were of that Tribe? why he was so bold and saucy (being but three and thirty years of age) to declaim so bitterly and satirically against the Pharisees, and Sadducees, and Scribes, and Priests, and Elders of the People? Much of this stuff he might bring out in his Interrogatories; that so by his questioning him in many things, he might trap him in something to his confusion and destruction.—And to this question our Saviour answers;¹ but Oh how wisely! I spake openly to the World (saith he) I ever taught in the Synagogue, and in the Temple, whither the Jews always resorted; and in secret have I said nothing; why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I said unto them, behold they know what I said: q. d. I appeal to the testimony of the very enemies themselves; thou suspectest me to be a seditious person, and one that plots mischief against the State in secret; I tell thee truth, I speak nothing in secret (i.e.) nothing in the least manner tending to sedition; my Doctrine I brought with me from the bosom of my Father, it is the everlasting Gospel, and not of yesterday; and it contains nothing in it of Sedition, Faction, Rebellion, Treason; ask these mine Enemies, these who have apprehended and ⟨p. 355⟩bound me, and brought me hither; they know what I said, let them speak if they can, wherein I have transgressed the Law.

2. He asked him of his Doctrine; what his questions were of that, are not set down neither; but probably they might be such as these; Who was his Master, or instructer in that new Doctrine he had lately broached? why he did seek to innovate, and alter their long practised and accustomed Rites? and what ground had he to bring in his own devices in their steads? as Baptism for Circumcision; the Lords Supper for the Passover; himself and his Apostles for the high Priests and Levites, when neither he, nor most of them were of that Tribe? why he was so bold and saucy (being but three and thirty years of age) to declame so bitterly and satyrically against the Pharisees, and Sadduces, and Scribes, and Priests, and Elders of the People? Much of this stuffe he might bring out in his Interrogatories; that so by his questioning him in many things, he might trap him in something to his confusion and destruction.—And to this question our Saviour answers;