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The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ from his incarnation to his death and burial published by John Eliot ...
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1678
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.
What this Potters field was, may be gathered from Act. 1.20. with the Prophesy there cited, viz. it was a dearned little bit of ground where the Potters had wrought out all the veins of clay, and left it a desolate plot, out of the way, unfit for habitation, good for nothing, unless it were for such a despicable use as they now bought it for; and this plot did the execrable wages of Judas purchase, and for that reason was called the field of blood.
What this Potters field was, may be gathered from Act. 1.20. with the Prophesy there cited, viz. it was a dearned little bit of ground where the Potters had wrought out all the veins of clay, and left it a desolate plat, out of the way, unfit for habitation, good for nothing, unless it were for such a despicable use as they now bought it for; and this plot did the execrable wages of Judas purchase, and for that reason was called the field of blood.
And this is the monument that Judas, that Traitor hath left behind him, a fit monument of such a vile Traitor.
And this is the monument that Iudas, that Traytor hath left behind him, a fit monument of such a vile Traytor.
And this is all the portion that this self murderer left to his Children, as the Prophesy doth intimate.
And this is all the portion that this self murtherer left to his Children, as the Prophesy doth intimate.