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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.
Answ. Sad apprehensions of the guilt of innocent blood, the blood of an holy, innocent, beneficent person, looks terribly in the face of a discreet, wise person, as she seemeth to be.
Quest. How did she suffer?
Answ. By Terrors in a divine dream, it was not a diabolical dream, Satan's chief design was to kill Jesus Christ, to bruise the heel of his humanity. Satan had much ado to bring about Pilate to do it, and now that he was come about, he was hardly put to it to keep him too, to do the deed; and this check from his wife, whom he knew to be a wise woman, did almost shake him quite off again, there was but ⟨p. 101⟩one Hinge that turned him, and still held him, viz. that generous principle, what? shall I not be firm and true to my Sovereign, Satan would not have thus acted; but it was a divine dream, and the Spirit of God by common grace in the wife, strove with her husband.
Answ. By Terrours in a divine dream, it was not a diabolical dream, Satans chief design was to kill Iesus Christ, to bruise the heel of his humanity. Satan had much adoe to bring about Pilate to do it, and now that he was come about, he was hardly put to it to keep him too, to do the deed; and this check from his wife, whom he knew to be a wise woman, did almost shake him quite off again, there was but ⟨p. 101⟩one Hinge that turned him, and still held him, viz. that generous principle, what? shall I not be firm and true to my Sovereign, Satan would not have thus acted; but it was a divine dream, and the Spirit of God by common grace in the wife, strove with her husband.