The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

2. He was rendered hereby in the worlds eye useless, they were exceeding populous, and where it is so, the poor worms are rather a burden then of any use to their Generation, though they be godly and wise, Joh. 7.49. the poor people are cursed, Act. 4, 11. the stone set at nought, by the builders. but God made him the head of the Corner, and desirable to redeem, preserve and govern the world, and especially the Church,

2. He was rendered hereby in the worlds eye useless, they were exceeding populous, and where it is so, the poor worms are rather a burthen then of any use to their Generation, though they be godly and wise, Joh. 7.49. the poor people are cursed, Act. 4, 11. the stone set at nought, by the builders. but God made him the head of the Corner, and desireable to redeem, preserve and govern the world, and especially the Church,

3. None is afraid of a worm, it cannot hurt us, so none feared Jesus Christ, Herod and his men of war set him at nought; though there was the greatest cause in the world for Herod and his men of war to have feared the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Rev. 5.5. and to kiss the Son, lest he be angry, Psal 2.12. and tremble at the wrath of the Lamb, Rev. 6.1•, 16, 17. and the Kings of the Earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief Captains, and the mighty men, and the bond man, and every free man hid themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the mountains, and said to the Rocks and mountains fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that fitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand.