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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 1 › Section 6: Of Christ's Whipping the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple.
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1. In the weakness of his means, whereby he did both attempt, and effect the work: we find him not armed with any weapons, that might carry dread and terror with them; at most but with a Whip made of a few small Cords, which probably were scattered by the Drovers which came thither to sell their Cattle.—2. In the strength that the opposite power did hold out, which makes the encounter so much the more dangerous: As, 1. A Garrison of Soldiers ready at hand, to appease occasional tumults. 2. The temper of those mens spirits with whom the business was;1 they were men set upon gain, the World's God. 3. The great Confluence of the people, it being the most solemn Mart of the Passover: O what a Zeal was this! that neither the weakness of the means, on the one side, to effect it, nor the greatness of the power, on the other side, to hinder it, did at all dismay him, or cause him to desist; seem he never so weak, or be they never so strong, he whips them out of the Temple, and bids them be gone.
1. In the weakness of his means, whereby he did both attempt, and effect the work: we find him not armed with any weapons, that might carry dread and terrour with them; at most but with a Whip made of a few small Cords, which probably were scattered by the Drovers which came thither to sell their Cattel.—2. In the strength that the opposite power did hold out, which makes the encounter so much the more dangerous: As, 1. A Garrison of Soldiers ready at hand, to appease occasional tumults. 2. The temper of those mens spirits with whom the business was;1 they were men set upon gain, the World's God. 3. The great Confluence of the people, it being the most solemn Mart of the Passover: O what a Zeal was this! that neither the weakness of the means, on the one side, to effect it, nor the greatness of the power, on the other side, to hinder it, did at all dismay him, or cause him to desist; seem he never so weak, or be they never so strong, he whips them out of the Temple, and bids them be gone.
- 1Ham. in loc.Cham. in loc.