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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.
I call it exclamatory, because the Evangelists so express it, he cried out with a great voice, I call it roaring, because the Prophesy so calleth it, Psal. 22.1. the voice ⟨p. 121⟩of my roaring, when he spake these very words. The original words are more full·
I call it exclamatory, because the Evangelists so express it, he cryed out with a great voice, I call it roaring, because the Prophesy so calleth it, Psal. 22.1. the voice ⟨p. 121⟩of my roaring, when he spake these very words. The original words are more full·
I call it expostulation, because the words are expostulatory, why hast thou forsaken me? for opening this, here be four considerations.
1. The question springeth not out of doubting, or not knowing the cause of his sufferings, and of Gods dereliction and forsaking of him, as if some strange and unlooked for matter had befallen him. Far be it from us to think so! Jesus Christ knew that he was now under the curse of the Law, under the execution of Justice, under the wrath of God as our Surety. There be divers kinds of Rhetorical questions, in all discourses and writings, and many in the Scriptures, see a taste, if any please to turn to, 1 Pet. 4.17, 18.