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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, teacher of the church in Roxbury. ; [Two lines from Acts]
printed by John Foster, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Jesus Christ his poverty did so veil his glory, that in all these and such like respects he was like a worm, which cloud of obscurity was no small part of his humiliation, and suffering for our sin, he was despicable, Psal. 22.5. despised of the people, Psal. 119.141. I am small and despised, Eccles. 4.16. the poor mans wisdom is despised, Isai. 53.3, despised, rejected of men, but God did dearly accept him, Math. 3.17. and 12.18.
1. Jesus Christ his poverty did so vaile his glory, that in all these and such like respects he was like a worm, which cloud of obscurity was no small part of his humiliation, and suffering for our sin, he was despicable, Psal. 22.5. despised of the people, Psal. 119.141. I am small and despised, Eccles. 4.16. the poor mans wisdome is despised, Isai. 53.3, despised, rejected of men, but God did dearly accept him, Math. 3.17. and 12.18.
2. He was rendered hereby in the worlds eye useless, they were exceeding populous, and where it is so, the poor worms are rather a burden then of any use to their Generation, though they be godly and wise,