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

1. It is a great boast, that though he had saved others many ways, out of many perils, and out of the hands of Devils, yet he was not able to save himself out of their hands, O who are you great Grandees! out of whos• han•s Jesus Christ cannot deliver himself? alas for you, had you suppressed this boast but till the morning after your Sabbath, you might have seen the vanity thereof, and that he was able to deliver himself out of your hands, and greater then yours also, even out of the hands of death and Devils too.

1. It is a great boast, that though he had saved others many wayes, out of many perils, and out of the hands of Devils, yet he was not able to save himself out of their hands, O who are you great Grandees! out of whos• han•s Jesus Chri•t cannot deliver himself? alas for you, had you suppressed this boast but till the morning after your Sabbath, you might have seen the vanity thereof, and that he was able to deliver himself out of your hands, and greater then yours also, even out of the hands of death and Devils too.

2. Jesus had manifested himself to be the Messiah, the King of Israel, by divine and infallible proofs, but you would not believe, but you can prescribe to Jesus Christ a better way to prove himself to be the King and Saviour of Israel, and that is by coming down of the Cross, and by that proof you would believe. Proud man will not be directed by God, unless man may prescribe to God the way, they will not believe; in their own way they will. Ah weak and proud dust! Rom. 11. 34, 35. who hath known the mind of the Lord, who hath been his Counsellor? who hath first given unto him, and it shall be recompensed to him? Faith is the operation of God not of man, Faith is not in mans power to create, nor are the means of begetting it in the hands of man. These men show what utter strangers they were to saith.