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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.
3. Pilate was moved, offended, huffed, because he would not answer him, nor respect him, but neglect him, therefore he speaks big to him, what? do you not know who I am? I have power to crucify thee, or to release thee. He thought to scare him with such vapouring words. But alas, what are his great vapouring words to Jesus Christ or to his Saints? The world miss their mark, when they think by such means to prevail against Jesus Christ.
3. Pilate was moved, offended, huffed, because he would not answer him, nor respect him, but neglect him, therefore he speaks big to him, what? do you not know who I am? I have power to crucifie thee, or to release thee. He thought to scare him with such vapouring words. But alas, what are his great vaporing words to Jesus Christ or to his Saints? The world miss their mark, when they think by such means to prevail against Jesus Christ.
4. Unto this high vapouring of Pilate, Jesus Christ answereth two things,
4. Vnto this high vapouring of Pilate, Jesus Christ answereth two things,
First. Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above. viz. Not from Caesar so much, as he might understand it, but from the God of Israel, whom thou neither knowest, nor professest to serve.