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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
The Harmony of the GOSPELS in the holy History of the Humiliation a… › Chapter 13 › Section 6
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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.
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 Counsellour? who hath first given unto him, and it shall be recompenced 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 shew what utter strangers they were to saith.
3. They say, he trusted in God, and said, I am the Son of God, let God take him, now if he will have him. This is to blaspheme not only the Son of God, but also the Father. Do you think that you have him so fast in your hands, that God cannot deliver him out of your hands, had you patience to have suppressed this blasphemy but till the morning of the first day, you might have been prevented of this sin, for you might have seen him mightily proved to be the Son of God by his Resurrection, and that God hath power to deliver him out of your hands, and greater then yours too.