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Proceedings Of A Great Council Of Jews,
these evils , yet he being a great dissembler , and more cunning than any magician before him , power was given him by the devil to remove those charms which others had placed . And there" was one Pharisee named Zebedee , who of the Pharisees there did most opprobnously revile him , and vehemently urge these things against him ; but I conceive he did in not to the well-liking of many there that heard him . even members of the council . And as the Pharisees
that day played their parts against him ; so did the Sadducees also endeavour ( for some of that sect were also of the council ) to render Christ vile and-odious to the rest of the Jews that were assembled there . I observed it was with them , as it was once with Herod and Pilate ; though they two could not agree betwixt themselves at other times , yet they could agree together tp crucify Christ : for the
Pharisees and Sadducees , though they be much divided in opinion among themselves , yet they did at this time too much agree to disgrace and to dishonour Christ with their lies , calumnies , and blasphemies : for the Sadducees , as well as the Pharisees , did in other things accuse him for a grand impostor , and for a broacher of" corrupt doctrines ; in that in his gospel he teacheth the resurrection from the dead
, which they there denied to be true doctrine : but it is no new thing to see factions dissenting , to agree in some evil design against others , as I found it by experience . Being at Rome in the year 1650 , which was the year of their Jubilee , there was a great strife between the Jesuits and the Fryars of the Order of St . Dominick , both which
were against the Protestants : and although their differences have been by the care and vigilance of the Pope so smothered , that the world hath not taken much notice thereof ; yet this fire broke out into a flame greater than ever it was before , ( as they certified me there ) both by public disputings , and by bitter writings one against another , opening the vices and errors of one another's faction ; thus seeking to disgrace one the other ; which caused the Pope to threaten
to excommunicate the authors of all such black and libellous books , that did tend to the dishonour of his clergy and religion , to make them infamous to the world . But this'by the way . ' We are come now to the seventh and last day of their council ; and on this day this was the main query amongst them : if Christ be comethen what rules and orders hath he left his church to walk b ?
, y This was a great question amongst them : and because they did not believe the New Testament , nor would be guided by it , they demanded some other instruction to direct and guide them in this point : thereupon six of the Roman clergy ( who of purpose were sent from Rome by the Pope , to assist in this council ) were called in , viz . two Jesuits two Friars of the Order of StAugustineand two of the
, . , Order of St . Francis . And these being admitted into the council , beo-an to open unto them the rules and doctrine of the Holy Church of Rome , ( as they call it ) which church they magnified to them for the Hol y Catholic Church of Christ , and their doctrine to be the infallible doctrine of Christ , and their rules to be the rules which the Apostles left to the church for ever to be observed , and that the Pooe is the
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Proceedings Of A Great Council Of Jews,
these evils , yet he being a great dissembler , and more cunning than any magician before him , power was given him by the devil to remove those charms which others had placed . And there" was one Pharisee named Zebedee , who of the Pharisees there did most opprobnously revile him , and vehemently urge these things against him ; but I conceive he did in not to the well-liking of many there that heard him . even members of the council . And as the Pharisees
that day played their parts against him ; so did the Sadducees also endeavour ( for some of that sect were also of the council ) to render Christ vile and-odious to the rest of the Jews that were assembled there . I observed it was with them , as it was once with Herod and Pilate ; though they two could not agree betwixt themselves at other times , yet they could agree together tp crucify Christ : for the
Pharisees and Sadducees , though they be much divided in opinion among themselves , yet they did at this time too much agree to disgrace and to dishonour Christ with their lies , calumnies , and blasphemies : for the Sadducees , as well as the Pharisees , did in other things accuse him for a grand impostor , and for a broacher of" corrupt doctrines ; in that in his gospel he teacheth the resurrection from the dead
, which they there denied to be true doctrine : but it is no new thing to see factions dissenting , to agree in some evil design against others , as I found it by experience . Being at Rome in the year 1650 , which was the year of their Jubilee , there was a great strife between the Jesuits and the Fryars of the Order of St . Dominick , both which
were against the Protestants : and although their differences have been by the care and vigilance of the Pope so smothered , that the world hath not taken much notice thereof ; yet this fire broke out into a flame greater than ever it was before , ( as they certified me there ) both by public disputings , and by bitter writings one against another , opening the vices and errors of one another's faction ; thus seeking to disgrace one the other ; which caused the Pope to threaten
to excommunicate the authors of all such black and libellous books , that did tend to the dishonour of his clergy and religion , to make them infamous to the world . But this'by the way . ' We are come now to the seventh and last day of their council ; and on this day this was the main query amongst them : if Christ be comethen what rules and orders hath he left his church to walk b ?
, y This was a great question amongst them : and because they did not believe the New Testament , nor would be guided by it , they demanded some other instruction to direct and guide them in this point : thereupon six of the Roman clergy ( who of purpose were sent from Rome by the Pope , to assist in this council ) were called in , viz . two Jesuits two Friars of the Order of StAugustineand two of the
, . , Order of St . Francis . And these being admitted into the council , beo-an to open unto them the rules and doctrine of the Holy Church of Rome , ( as they call it ) which church they magnified to them for the Hol y Catholic Church of Christ , and their doctrine to be the infallible doctrine of Christ , and their rules to be the rules which the Apostles left to the church for ever to be observed , and that the Pooe is the