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Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of…
Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second coming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to several questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustering storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the virtue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunyan ...Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second comming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to severall questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustring storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the vertue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunnyan ...
London: printed for J. Wright the younger, 1656
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.
Now the Sceptre was then departed from those that were Jews by nature, and also the lawgiver, and Herod who was a stranger, and not of Judea, was King over them, as Caesars Deputy; and Caesar Augustus imposed laws on them.
Now the Scepter was then departed from those that were Jews by nature, and also the lawgiver, and Herod who was a stranger, and not of Judea, was King over them, as Caesars Deputy; and Caesar Augustus imposed lawes on them.
The stubborn Jews also confessed the Sceptre to be departed ⟨p. 25⟩when before Pontius Pilate a Roman governor of Judea, they cried out against Christ: We have no King but Caesar, Joh. 19. 15.
The stuborn Jews also confessed the Scepter to be departed ⟨p. 25⟩when before Pontius Pilate a Romane governour of •udea, they cryed out against Christ: We have no King but Caesar, Joh. 19. 15.
Nay further, the Jews from that day to this have been without a •ing of their own nation to govern them; they never had the Sceptre swayed since by any of themselves, but have been a scattered despised people, and have been as it were liable to all dangers, and for a long time driven out from their country, and scattered over all the Nations of the earth, as was prophesied concerning them, Je. 24. 9. Zek. 5. 14, 15. And yet these poor souls are so horribly deluded by the devil, that though they see these things come to pass, yet they will not believe. And one reason among many, of their being thus deluded, is this, they say that the word Sceptre in that 49. of Gen. is not meant of a