A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

THE Apostle bids us consider Christ,¹ who endured ^(a)such (that is, so great) contradiction of sinners against himself: It was from a great spirit of this kind, that his adversaries used to propose so many captious questions to him. We find him no less than three times opposed in this one chapter: First, by the disciples of the Pharisees, and the^(b) Herodians, about the lawfulness of giving tribute unto Caesar: again, the same day by the Sadducees, with a question about the resurrection, which they denied. When he had so well acquitted himself of both these, that the first marvelled and left him, and the last were put to silence; behold he is again set upon by the Pharisees, who seem to have chosen out one of their number to oppose him with a question: Then one of them, which was a Lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, ver. 35. The same person is by another Evangelist called a Scribe, Mark 12.28. One of the Scribes came, &c.

THE Apostle bids us consider Christ,¹ who indured ^(a)such (that is, so great) contradiction of sinners against himself: It was from a great spirit of this kind, that his adversaries used to propose so many captious questions to him. We find him no less than three times opposed in this one chapter: First, by the disciples of the Pharisees, and the^(b) Herodians, about the lawfulness of giving tribute unto Caesar: again, the same day by the Sadduces, with a question about the resurrection, which they denied. When he had so well acquitted himself of both these, that the first marvelled and left him, and the last were put to silence; behold he is again set upon by the Pharisees, who seem to have chosen out one of their number to oppose him with a question: Then one of them, which was a Lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, ver. 35. The same person is by another Evangelist called a Scribe,