Christ kissed the man that to his knowledge came to betray him, Christ fled not, but knowing where, and when his enemy should apprehend him, came willingly1 to the place. Ergo, we should not flee. 2. His actions are so mysterious that John P. P. in imitation of Christs forty days fast, will fast from flesh in lent, and the Prelate must walk on the sea, and work miracles, if all Christs actions be our instructions. 7. He might with more then twelve Legions of Angels defend himself, but he would not, not because resistance was unlawful, no shadow for that in the text, but because it was Gods will, that he should drink the cup his Father gave him, & because to take the sword without Gods warrant, subjecteth the usurper of Gods place to perish with the sword. Peter had Gods revealed will, that Christ behoved to suffer, Math. 26. 52, 53. Math. 16. 21, 22, 23. & Gods positive command that Christ should die for sinners, John 10. 24. may well restrain an act of lawful self-preservation, hic & nunc, and such an act as Christ lawfully used, at another time, Luk. 4. 29▪ 30. Joh. 11. 7, 8. we give no new creed, but this apostate hath forsaken his old creed, & the religion of the Church of Scotland, in which he was Baptised. 9. Nor do we expunge out of the Creed Christs descension into hell, & the communion of Saints, as the apostate saith, but the Popish local descension of Christ, & the Popish advancing of the Churches power above the Scriptures, & the intercession & prayers to the saints, or of the saints for us, we deny, & this Prelate, though he did swear the doctrine of the Church of Scotland, preached expressly all these & many other points of Popery in the Pulpits of Edinburgh. 10. We believe that ⟨p. 367⟩Christ suffered under Pontius Pilate, but that Pilate had any legal power to condemn Christ, (but only a power by a permissive Decree, Act. 4. 27, 28. Such as Devils had by Gods permission, Luke. 22. 53.) we utterly deny. 11. The Prelate saith it is his resolution, for our sin of natural self defence, to dissolve in tears, because his Bishopric (I conceive) by which he was wont to dissolve in cups, (being drunk on the Lords day, after he (with other Prelates) had been at the Lords Supper, while the Chamber▪ wherein they were, was dissolved in vomiting,) was taken from him. 12.
Christ kissed the man that to his knowledge came to betray him, Christ fled not, but knowing where, and when his enemy should apprehend him, came willingly1 to the place. Ergo, we should not flee. 2. His actions are so mysterious that Iohn P. P. in imitation of Christs fourty dayes fast, will fast from flesh in lent, and the Prelate must walk on the sea, and work miracles, if all Christs actions be our instructions. 7. He might with more then twelve Legions of Angels defend himself, but he would not, not because resistance was unlawfull, no shadow for that in the text, but because it was Gods will, that he should drink the cup his Father gave him, & because to take the sword without Gods warrant, subjecteth the usurper of Gods place to perish with the sword. Peter had Gods revealed wil, that Christ behoved to suffer, Math. 26. 52, 53. Math. 16. 21, 22, 23. & Gods positive command that Christ should die for sinners, Iohn 10. 24. may well restraine an act of lawfull self-preservation, hic & nunc, and such an act as Christ lawfully used, at another time, Luk. 4. 29▪ 30. Ioh. 11. 7, 8. we give no new creed, but this apostate hath forsaken his old creed, & the religion of the Church of Scotland, in which he was Baptised. 9. Nor do we expunge out of the Creed Christs descension into hell, & the communion of Saints, as the apostate saith, but the Popish locall descension of Christ, & the Popish advancing of the Churches power above the Scriptures, & the intercession & prayers to the saints, or of the saints for us, we deny, & this Prelate, though he did swear the doctrine of the Church of Scotland, preached expresly all these & many other poynts of Popery in the Pulpits of Edenburgh. 10. We beleeve that ⟨p. 367⟩Christ suffered under Pontius Pilat, but that Pilat had any legal power to condemne Christ, (but onely a power by a permissive Decree, Act. 4. 27, 28. Such as Devils had by Gods permission, Luke. 22. 53.) we utterly deny. 11. The Prelat saith it is his resolution, for our sin of naturall selfe defence, to dissolve in tears, because his Bishopricke (I conceive) by which he was wont to dissolve in cups, (being drunk on the Lords day, after he (with other Prelates) had been at the Lords Supper, while the Chamber wherein they were, was dissolved in vomitting,) was taken from him. 12.
- 1Rivet. in D• call. in mand. 6. pag. 234. Showeth the reasons, why Christ condemned Peter, not because he thought self defence unlawful, but 1. it had a kind of revenge in it▪ for so, few could not repel such an army as ca••• to take Christ. 2. He waited not on Christs answer. 3. He could have defended himself another way. 4. It was contrary to Gods will revealed to Peter.Rivet. in D• cal. in mand. 6. pag. 234. Sheweth the reasons, why Christ condemned Peter, not because he thought self defence unlawfull, but 1. it had a kind of revenge in it▪ for so, few could not repel such an army as ca••• to take Christ. 2. He waited not on Christs answer. 3. He could have defended himself another way. 4. It was contrary to Gods will revealed to Peter.
