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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.
2. The second sort of mockers were the chief Priests, Scribes, and Chieftains among them, their mockeries are recorded also, Math. 27.41, 42, 43. likewise also the chief Priests mocking him, with the Scribes and Elders, said, he saved others, himself he cannot save, if he be the King of the Jews let him now come down from the Cross, and we will believe him. he trusted in God, let him deliver him now if he will have him, for he said, I am the Son of God. These upbraidings are deeper, and more blasphemous, yet ignorant and over hasty gloryings over him.
1. It is a great boast, that though he had saved others many ways, out of many perils, and out of the hands of Devils, yet he was not able to save himself out of their hands, O who are you great Grandees! out of whose hands Jesus Christ cannot deliver himself? alas for you, had you suppressed this boast but till the morning after your Sabbath, you might have seen the vanity thereof, and that he was able to deliver himself out of your hands, and greater then yours also, even out of the hands of death and Devils too.
1. It is a great boast, that though he had saved others many wayes, out of many perils, and out of the hands of Devils, yet he was not able to save himself out of their hands, O who are you great Grandees! out of whose hands Jesus Christ cannot deliver himself? alas for you, had you suppressed this boast but till the morning after your Sabbath, you might have seen the vanity thereof, and that he was able to deliver himself out of your hands, and greater then yours also, even out of the hands of death and Devils too.
2. Jesus had manifested himself to be the Messiah, the King of Israel, by divine and infallible proofs, but you would not believe, but you can prescribe to Jesus Christ a better way to prove himself to be the King and Saviour of Israel, and that is by coming down off the Cross, and by that proof you would believe. Proud man will not be directed by God, unless man may prescribe to God the way, they will not believe; in their own way they will. Ah weak and proud dust!