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

In this part of the History see, 1. When the chief priests and Jews heard Pilate testify to the innocency of Jesus a second time, and that so plump & fully, they were greatly enraged. Our English Translation renders the word very well, They were the more fierce. The shining innocency of any, should the more qualify and pacify our minds, and moderate our spirits. This is the frame of a good Spirit, that is acted by Gods Spirit. But we see that the notifying of the innocency of Jesus Christ, did enrage them. Therefore we may see that they we•e acted by a Devilish spirit. They were resolved to execute their envy against Jesus Christ by putting him to death; and therefore they were vexed that the Judge found him innocent, and it made them the more violent in aggrava•ng his offences, which they imputed to him.

In this part of the History see, 1. When the chief priests and Jews heard Pilate testifie to the innocency of Jesus a second time, and that so plump & fully, they were greatly enraged. Our English Translation renders the word very well, They were the more fierce. The shining innocency of any, should the more qualifie and pacifie our minds, and moderate our spirits. This is the frame of a good Spirit, that is acted by Gods Spirit. But we see that the notifying of the innocency of Jesus Christ, did inrage them. Therefore we may see that they we•e acted by a Devillish spirit. They were resolved to execute their envy against Jesus Christ by putting him to death; and therefore they were vexed that the Judge found him innocent, and it made them the more violent in aggrava•ng his offences, which they imputed to him.

2. They inflame the matter which they accuse him of, by putting a bad construction upon his good actions, they say, he stirreth up the people by his teaching; he shaketh their hearts like as an Earthquake shaketh the Earth, so the word signifieth. The word of the Gospel doth indeed shake the hearts of men, but it is to repentance, and to embrace the offer of grace and mercy in Jesus Christ, and this is the real and true shaking, and heart stirring, that the Ministry of Jesus had raised, but they put a bad and false construction upon it, and say, or intimate at least, that Jesus and his followers did stir up the people to Sedition, &c. they pervert the powerful effects of the word that move men to repentance, and say, it moveth them to Faction and Rebellion.