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The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, all of…
The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, all of them exhibited in the express words of the Old Testament. Partly, to confirm those who do possess that religion of God, and His Messiah. But chiefly, to engage the Jewish nation, unto the religion of their patriarchs; and, bring down the hearts of the fathers into the children, and the disobedient unto the wisdom of the just; and so, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines of quotation]
printed by B. Green, 1699
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.
Q. When the Messiah first Appears to the Jewish Nation, is He to be Despised and Rejected of that Nation?
A. Yes. It is written, Isa. 53.2, 3. When we shall see Him, there is no Beauty, that we should desire Him; He is Despised and Rejected of men, a Man of Sorrows, and Acquainted with Grief; And we hid as it were our Faces from Him; He was Despised, and we Esteemed Him not.
Q. Was the Messiah to be Betrayed into the Hands of His Murderers, by one of His own Disciples.
Q. Was the Messiah to be Betray'd into the Hands of His Murderers, by one of His own Disciples.
A. Yes. It is written, Psal. 41.9. Mine own Familiar Friend, which did Eat of my Bread, hath lift up His Heel against me.