The remarkable Sayings of our Lord, at the time of his
Apprehension, on his Trial, and on the Cross, con-
sidered. His Institution of the Sacrament in Comme-
moration of his Death.
JOHN XVIII. 36, 37. Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of
this world; if my kingdom were of this world, then would my
servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but
now is my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto
him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that
I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came
I into the world, that I might bear witness unto the truth.
Every one that is of the truth heareth
that event. The distinguishing peculiarities of the
Christian Faith,
LUKE XXIV. 44–48. And he said unto them, These are the words
which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things
must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in
the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Then opened
he their understandings, that they might understand the Scrip-
tures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and
that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his
name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are
witnesses of these things..
The Infidelity of the Jews in its more advanced stage
noticed by our Lord with allusion to a passage of
Isaiah. The occasion and purport of his Remarks;
and a similar application of the same passage by the
Evangelist St. John.-Other Cautions and Directions
given by our Lord respecting the Temper and Method
proper for Religious Inquiry.
MATT. XIII. 14-16. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of
Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not
únderstand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.—
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of
hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they
should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should
heal them....
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