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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.
2. He returns a quick and sharp question, with the reason of his question, yet with so much composure of mind and judgement, that he first expresseth the reason, and then his quick question, thy own Nation, and the chief Priests have delivered thee to me as a condemned Malefactor, What hast thou done?
4. Jesus Christ knowing that Pilate already knew the worst they could say against ⟨p. 91⟩him, and that there was no weight in their allegations, only they were carried with envy and wrath, therefore he declineth to make any answer to his quick question, and proceeds to answer to his first sober question touching the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, wherein see these three particulars.
4. Iesus Christ knowing that Pilate already knew the worst they could say against ⟨p. 91⟩him, and that there was no weight in their allegations, only they were carryed with envy and wrath, therefore he declineth to make any answer to his quick question, and proceeds to answer to his first sober question touching the Kingdome of Jesus Christ, wherein see these three particulars.
1. Jesus Christ delivereth a doctrine, my Kingdom is not of, (or from) this world, as authors or constitutors thereof, (of) signifieth from in this place, it doth not signify concerning, for the Kingdom of Christ is (of or) concerning all the world, and affairs thereof, as the object, or subject about which it is exercised, but the world doth not make or constitute it, it is not the efficient of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.