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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. 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.
Quest. How came she thus to have a day dream? that morning afore she rose which many times is not early with Gentlewomen, she might have her dream which gastered her, and caused her to rise and send to hear how things went at the Court: and being informed, that though Pilate had with much prudence and diligence carried himself right, a great while, yet they had brought him about to yield to them, whereupon she presently wrote that message, or delivered it to some fit instrument to deliver to Pilate.
Quest. How came she thus to have a day dream? that morning afore she rose which many times is not early with Gentlewomen, she might have her dream which gastered her, and caused her to rise and send to hear how things went at the Court: and being informed, that though Pilate had with much prudence and diligence carryed hlmself right, a great while, yet they had brought him about to yield to them, whereupon she presently wrote that message, or delivered it to some fit instrument to deliver to Pilate.