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Proceedings Of A Great Council Of Jews,
PROCEEDINGS OF A GREAT COUNCIL OF JEWS ,
ASSEMBLED , OCT . 12 , 1650 , TO EXAMINE THE SCRIPTURES CONCERNING CHRIST . BY SAMUEL BRETT . TOGtTHJS WITH A SKETCH Of HIS TRAVELS . FIRST riUNT ? . D IN 1655 .. [ CONCLUDED FKOM VAGK 222 . ]
\ K 7 HEN meeting again , the Pharisees ( for some of this sect were ^ y amongst them , that were always the enemies of Christ ) first began to answer this last night ' s question ; and these by no means would yield that he was the Christ ; and these reasons they gave for their opinion . First , because ( said they ) he came into the world like an ordinary and inferior mannot with his sceptrenor royal power ; wherewith
, , they affirm the coming of Christ should be glorious . Secondly , they pleaded against him the meanness of his birth , in that his father was a carpenter ; and this , the }* said , was a dishonour that Christ should not be capable of . Thirdly , they accused him to be an enemy to Moses ' s law , in suffering his disciples , and in doing works himself that were prohibited on the sabbath-day ; for they believe that the Messiah will
punctually and exaftly keep the law of Moses : and where the gospel doth testify of Christ , that he did fulfill the law , they reject the testimony thereof , because they do not own the gospel . But I observed these reasons of the Pharisees did not satisfy all that heard them , but there still remained some doubt in some of them concerning Christ ; for there stood up one Rabbi , called Abraham , and objected against
the Pharisees , the miracles that Christ wrought whilst he was upon earth , as his raising of the dead to life again , his making the lame to walk , the blind to see , and the dumb to speak . And the same Abraham demanded of the Pharisees by what power he did these miracles ? The answer the Pharisees returned to him was to this purpose : they said he was an impostor and a magician ; and blasphemously traduced him of doing all his miracles by magic : thussaid theyhe
, , first caused them to be blind , to be dumb , to be lame ; and then , by taking away his magical charm , they were restored to their former condition . Nevertheless , this answer gave little satisfaction to the said Abraham : but thus he replied , that he could not charm those that were born in that condition , as blind , & c . and born also before Christ himself was born : as it appeareth some of them were . This
seemed to him an absurd paradox : and truly the ' pressing of this argument did almost put them to a nonplus , till at last they had this evasion ( though weak and vile)—They were ( said they ) by other magicians convinced to be so in their mother ' s wombs ; and that although himself were not then born when they were born with
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Proceedings Of A Great Council Of Jews,
PROCEEDINGS OF A GREAT COUNCIL OF JEWS ,
ASSEMBLED , OCT . 12 , 1650 , TO EXAMINE THE SCRIPTURES CONCERNING CHRIST . BY SAMUEL BRETT . TOGtTHJS WITH A SKETCH Of HIS TRAVELS . FIRST riUNT ? . D IN 1655 .. [ CONCLUDED FKOM VAGK 222 . ]
\ K 7 HEN meeting again , the Pharisees ( for some of this sect were ^ y amongst them , that were always the enemies of Christ ) first began to answer this last night ' s question ; and these by no means would yield that he was the Christ ; and these reasons they gave for their opinion . First , because ( said they ) he came into the world like an ordinary and inferior mannot with his sceptrenor royal power ; wherewith
, , they affirm the coming of Christ should be glorious . Secondly , they pleaded against him the meanness of his birth , in that his father was a carpenter ; and this , the }* said , was a dishonour that Christ should not be capable of . Thirdly , they accused him to be an enemy to Moses ' s law , in suffering his disciples , and in doing works himself that were prohibited on the sabbath-day ; for they believe that the Messiah will
punctually and exaftly keep the law of Moses : and where the gospel doth testify of Christ , that he did fulfill the law , they reject the testimony thereof , because they do not own the gospel . But I observed these reasons of the Pharisees did not satisfy all that heard them , but there still remained some doubt in some of them concerning Christ ; for there stood up one Rabbi , called Abraham , and objected against
the Pharisees , the miracles that Christ wrought whilst he was upon earth , as his raising of the dead to life again , his making the lame to walk , the blind to see , and the dumb to speak . And the same Abraham demanded of the Pharisees by what power he did these miracles ? The answer the Pharisees returned to him was to this purpose : they said he was an impostor and a magician ; and blasphemously traduced him of doing all his miracles by magic : thussaid theyhe
, , first caused them to be blind , to be dumb , to be lame ; and then , by taking away his magical charm , they were restored to their former condition . Nevertheless , this answer gave little satisfaction to the said Abraham : but thus he replied , that he could not charm those that were born in that condition , as blind , & c . and born also before Christ himself was born : as it appeareth some of them were . This
seemed to him an absurd paradox : and truly the ' pressing of this argument did almost put them to a nonplus , till at last they had this evasion ( though weak and vile)—They were ( said they ) by other magicians convinced to be so in their mother ' s wombs ; and that although himself were not then born when they were born with