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

Never did any perform such; and so many good Works for a people, as Jesus Christ did for the Jews: and yet never was any man so ungratefully disaccepted, rejected and abused, Act. 10.38. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed with the Devil, for God was with him. It is unutterable how many good works Jesus Christ did among them, even visible and bodily good which all men saw, a child might run and read them: besides these invisible, spiritual and heavenly works of Redemption and Salvation which he did for them, But what acceptance did he find among them? see Luk. 4.28, 29. All they in the Synagogue that heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him to the brow of a hill, whereon the city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. Though he taught them the heavenly Doctrine of the Gospel, and confirmed his Doctrine with many Miracles, yet they believed not. Joh. 12.37. Though he had done so many Miracles before them, yet they believed not on him, yea they went about to stone him. Joh. 8, 59. Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. Joh. 10.•1. They took up stones again to stone him. At another time he saw meet to hide himself from them. Joh. 12.36. Jesus departed and did hide himself from them. At another time he was fain to do the same, […] ⟨p. 50⟩[…] ⟨p. 51⟩[…] ⟨p. 58⟩him, and the product was, the Institution of a Gospel Church, a stone hewed by the Axe and Hammer of Temptations, is fit to be built into a Gospel Church, and to enjoy full Communion at the Lords Table, and voting in the Church, and one fitted and humbled by Temptations, is fit to undertake the Gospel Ministry in a Gospel Church.