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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.
So much for what passed between Jesus and Pilate in the Praetorium: Now see what followed, in the beginning of v. 12. Pilate did not only suppress his disgust and displeasure at the silence of Jesus, but took patiently his reproof for his sin in persecuting him. Yea and not only so, but from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him.
So much for what passed between Jesus and Pilate in the Pretorium: Now see what followed, in the beginning of v. 12. Pilate did not only suppress his disgust and displeasure at the silence of Jesus, but took patiently his reproof for his sin in persecuting him. Yea and not only so, but from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him.
Quest. How did Pilate seek to release him?
Answ. By humane policies and Tricks, he had no better nor higher principles to act by. And this will be very observable, that all his humane policy and ⟨p. 98⟩devices were not only ineffectual to his end, but drew forth the Jews to an horrible increase of their sins: as we shall see in the particulars. Yea and he entrapped himself also. Great observations of Instruction lye before us all the way. But I pass on.