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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 6 › Chapter 2 › Section 1: Of Christ's Indictment, and Judas's fearful end.
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.
Pilate, a Gentile, was not tied to these Laws, and therefore they led Jesus from Caiaphas unto the Hall of judgment, or unto Pilate's House.
2. The place of the Accusation was at the door of the House; they would not go into the Judgment-Hall lest they should be defiled, 1but that they might eat the Passover. See what a piece of Superstition and gross Hypocrisy is here! they are curious of a Ceremony, but make no strain to shed innocent blood; they are precise about small matters, but for the weightier matters of the Law, as Mercy, Judgment, Fidelity, and the Love of God, they let them pass; they honour the figurative Passover, but the true Passover they seize upon with bloody and sacrilegious hands.
2. The place of the Accusation was at the door of the House; they would not go into the Judgment-Hall lest they should be defiled, 1but that they might eat the Passover. See what a piece of Superstition and grose Hypocrisie is here! they are curious of a Ceremony, but make no strain to shed innocent blood; they are precise about small matters, but for the weightier matters of the Law, as Mercy, Judgment, Fidelity, and the Love of God, they let them pass; they honour the figurative Passover, but the true Passover they seize upon with bloody and sacrilegious hands.