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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 › Section 3
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Pilate empowereth them to make his grave as fast and sure as they can, or desire to do, by a watch, or any other means. Whereupon they went upon the same Sabbath day, they set a watch (strong enough you may be sure) at the grave, and sealed up the great stone that lay upon the graves mouth, and now let him rise if he can.
Pilate impowereth them to make his grave as fast and sure as they can, or desire to do, by a watch, or any other means. Whereupon they went upon the same Sabbath day, they set a watch (strong enough you may be sure) at the grave, and sealed up the great stone that lay upon the graves mouth, and now let him rise if he can.
But herein we may behold the admirable wisdom of God, and folly of man, that the very way which they took to prevent his Resurrection, was a means to make his Resurrection most evident and manifest unto all; the Watchmen were witnesses of it. Though they did afterwards corrupt them with large money to make a foolish lye, which is current among the Jews unto this day; and hereby their last error is indeed as bad, if not worse then the first.
But herein we may behold the admirable wisdome of God, and folly of man, that the very way which they took to prevent his Resurrection, was a means to make his Resurrection most evident and manifest unto all; the Watchmen were witnesses of it. Though they did afterwards corrupt them with large money to make a foolish lye, which is current among the Jews unto this day; and hereby their last error is indeed as bad, if not worse then the first.
When Jesus Christ breathed out his blessed Soul into his Fathers bosom, it wa• in a state of separation from his body, and that was a state of suffering. He went into Heaven, into Paradise, into his Fathers bosom, in a separate, in a suffering