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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 15
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1. Touching the Earthquake; God hath made two great changes of Ecclesiastical Polity, since the beginning of the world, and both of them have been expressly accompanied with Earthquakes. When the Lord laid by the ancient Paternal Government, and erected the Polity of Moses, in the national Church of Israel, God appeared with terrible Earthquakes. Exod. 19.
1. Touching the Earthquake; God hath made two great changes of Ecclesiastical Polity, since the beginning of the world, and both of them have been expresly accompanied with Earthquakes. When the Lord laid by the ancient Paternal Goverment, and erected the Polity of Moses, in the national Church of Israel, God appeared with terrible Earthquakes. Exod. 19.
And now the Lord being about to lay aside the Mosaical Polity, and erect the Gospel Polity of the Ecclesiastical Kingdom of Jesus Christ, it is accompanied with Earthquakes.
And now the Lord being about to lay aside the Mosaical Polity, and erect the Gospel Polity of the Ecclesiastical Kingdome of Jesus Christ, it is accompanied with Earthquakes.
2. The veil of the Temple was rent from top to bottom, probably it was effected by he Earthquake, and the accomplishment of the Prophesy which the Apostle maketh mention of, Heb. 12.26, 27, 28, 29. whose voice then shook the Earth, but now he •ath promised saying, yet once more I shake not Earth only, but also Heaven. And this word yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things hat are made, that those things which cannot be shaken, may remain, &c. The Prophecy which the Apostle quoteth is