5 70 Book. IV . Part. 3• LlokinguJSto 1-efus. Cbap.r.&ed.7 --------· ----- md then you /hall heare him curfe, and {weare, that he never knew me; .rnd for tdl the reft a panniclz. feare hath fea:{.ed up~n their heart;, and they are fled, and hilve left me 11lone to tread the wine prej]e. Ah no, he will not fpeak evil of che teachers of his people; it was grief to him, and added to his fufferings, that all had forfaken him ; once before this, mtflnJ of his di(ciples went b.1c/z., ,md wallf.!d no more with him; which occafJoned J efus to fay to th~ twelve, 1vill7e alfo go away? why, no faid Peter then, L od whither j!Ja!l we go, thou haft the words of etemcl! life; and we bcleeve,. and are fure, that thou art that Chrift the Senne of the Joh.6 67 ,68, living God. oh Peter ! whlt a frrong fa1th was that? wf belm;e ~9· and mare fure; but how is it now that ye have no £1ith? or why are ye fo fearful, 0 ye oflittle faith ? I beleeve this fate upon the heart ofChrill, and yet he would not accufe them, who now f\:ood in their places, and was accufed for them, and for us aJJ. and therefore to that quefrion of his difciples he anfwered no: thin<>. 2. 0 He asked him of his doctrine ; what his quefrions were of that, are not fet down neither, hut probably they might be fuch as thefe; who WM his Ulfafler, or inftrufler in that new doflrine he had latef] brMched? why he did [ee/z. to innovate, and alter their long praFtifed and accuftomed rites ? and what ground had he to bring in his own devifes in their fteadJ ? M baptifme for circumcifton; the Lords [upper for the Taf[eover; himfelfe and his Aprjfles for the high'Pr~Fjis and Levites, whm neither he, Nor_ mf!ft ofthem were qf that tnbe? why he was fo bold andfnuq ( berng hut three and thirtyyears ef age) to declaime fo Utterly and [~<tirically ,;. gainft the Pharifers, and Sadduces, and Scribes, lind Trirjh, aHd £/ders ofthe people? much ofthis fruffe he might bring out in his intergatories; that fo by his queil:ioning him in many things he might trip him in fome thing to his confuf!on and defrructi: . - on.--and to this queftion our Saviour anfwers,but oh how wifely! -· Joh. 1S., ao,lt. I fpa~r (pe11ly to :he world(faid he) I ever taught in theSynagogue& in the Templt,whither the {ewes alwayes reforted;and in fnret ht~ve Jfaid nothir~~,why Mkfft thou me, .ulz_them which heard me,what I faid unto them, beho!dthq k!ww what Ifaid? q.d. Iappealeto the tefiimony of the very enemies tbemfelves ; thou fufpectell: me to be a fed itious perfon, and one that plots mifchiefe againfi the State in fecret; I tell thee truth, Ijpe11/z_nothing - ~
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