The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher…The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher…

First of all, it is said here, [Then Jesus went thence.] He went from the Jews. He had been (as ye read in the former part of the chapter) disputing with them against their Traditions, Ye have made the Commandment of God void, through your Traditions, verse 6. Whereupon they were ⟨p. 199⟩much offended, verse 12. Our Saviour now then goes from them; they were offended, and rejected his words, and he goes from them. These were the Jews that dwelt at Jerusalem, not the meanest neither, The Scribes and Pharisees, the Learned men of that time, and those that were most in account for Holiness; See what entertainment the Gospel finds in Christs own time among the Learned, and those that were accounted the most Holy: Scribes, Learned men, and the Pharisees, the most precise, and strict men of those times, and yet here the Gospel is rejected by them. Christ goes away, Christ goes from thence, upon this account.

First of all, it is said here, [Then Jesus went thence.] He went from the Jews. He had been (as ye reade in the former part of the chapter) disputing with them against their Traditions, Ye have made the Commandement of God void, through your Traditions, verse 6. Whereupon they were ⟨p. 199⟩much offended, verse 12. Our Savior now then goes from them; they were offended, and rejected his words, and he goes from them. These were the Jews that dwelt at Jerusalem, not the meanest neither, The Scribes and Pharisees, the Learned men of that time, and those that were most in account for Holiness; See what entertainment the Gospel finds in Christs own time among the Learned, and those that were accounted the most Holy: Scribes, Learned men, and the Pharisees, the most precise, and strict men of those times, and yet here the Gospel is rejected by them. Christ goes away, Christ goes from thence, upon this account.

Observ. None more rigorous opposers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, than Learned men, and such as go for Holy, and Precise men, being wedded to their own inventions: So were these here. Know ye therefore, men wedded to their own inventions, though never so Learned, or never so strict in their lives; little hope that the Gospel, or the Lord Christ, should find entertainment among them. Be not offended though this fall out.