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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.
The place out of which they lead him was the City, that he might fulfil the Types of Scriptures, that he might be a sin offering, to cleanse away the sins of the people.
The manner of his going was bearing his Cross, bearing the imputation, the guilt, and the reproach of sin, and the curse of God for it, signified by his hanging on a Tree.
The place whither they carry him is Golgotha, the place of a scull, where many dead mens bones were some heaped up, some scattered about, and that made the place ceremonially unclean, and that gave name to the place. And as it was ceremonially a filthy place, so civilly it was no better, a place of reproach, disgrace, dishonour, a place where the worst and vilest malefactors were punished, and executed, the filthiest place in the world. There our Lord Jesus suffered the punishment of our sin, showing us the just desert of our sin.
The place whither they carry him is Golgotha, the place of a scull, where many dead mens bones weresome heaped up, some scattered about, and that made the place ceremonially unclean, and that gave name to the place. And as it was ceremonially a filthy place, so civilly it was no better, a place of reproach, disgrace, dishonour, a place where the worst and vilest malefactors were punished, and executed, the filthiest place in the world. There our Lord Jesus suffered the punishment of our sin, shewing us the just desert of our sin.