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A49697 Christ crucified, or, The doctrine of the Gospel asserted against Pelagian and Socinian errours revived under the notion of new lights : wherein also the original, occasion and progress of errours are set down : and admonitions directed both to them that stand fast in the faith and to those that are fallen from it : unto which are added three sermons ... / by Paul Lathom. Lathom, Paul. 1666 (1666) Wing L572; ESTC R25131 132,640 284

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those who willingly entertain the truth and he drew unto him divers Jews and Greeks to be his followers This was Christ who being accused by the Princes of the Nation before Pilate and afterward condemned to the Cross by him yet did not they who followed him from the beginning forbear to love him for the ignoming of his death for he appeared to them alive the third day after according as the divine Prophets had before testified the same And divers other wonderful things of him and from that time forward the Race of Christians who derived their name from him hath never ceased Thus we see Josephus confesseth the great works which he did and withall the truth of his Doctrine and certainty of his Resurrection And which we may greatly wonder at he who in flattery had before called Vespasian the Messiah when he comes to write this History whether it overslipped him or whether it was forced from him by the over-ruling hand of God he confesseth that this Jesus was the Christ. Yea the Turks cannot but confess that Jesus did very many great and wonderful works and therefore they preferr him before Moses and set him next to their Mahomet and say He was a good man and a great Prophet And some of the Jews say that Jesus was a very holy man and highly in favour with God who enabled him to do all these works and yet they will not believe him to be the Messiah Pilate himself who condemned him most unjustly to death yet is said afterward to have written to Tiberius a relation of his many Miracles Whereupon Tiberius was willing to admit him into the number of their gods and wrote to the Senate to that end But the Senate refused alledging one of their Laws that none should be admitted into the number of their gods but whom the Senate did first propose themselves Which as it shews the vanity of minde to which even the wiser sort of the Heathens were delivered up that they could conceit that they could either keep out him who was truly God by a Vote in the Senate or by a more favourable Vote when they were in a kinder mood make him a God who was none before So it ●h●ws the Providence of God in not permitting his own blessed Son who as to his divine Nature was equal to the Father to be ranked amongst them that were no gods as equal with them The Evasion whereby some of the modern Jews are said to endeavour to keep off this Argument from the Miracles which Jesus wrought from convincing them that he was the true Messiah is so absurd that the very mentioning of it will proclaim it ridiculous They say that as to those works which he did he came to do them by this means He got once into the Holy of holies and stole out thence the name Jehovah which was there written upon a Plate of Gold and for fear lest it should be taken from him he cut a hole in his Thigh and put the Plate therein and by vertue of that Name they say he did all those miracles Every man will easily see the absurdity of this without my spending of words to confute it However hereby it is evident that men of all Nations and Professions are convinced of the many miracles which Jesus wrought when he was upon Earth And forasmuch as he wrought these on purpose to confirm the truth of his being the Messiah that was promised we may therefore conclude that this Truth is hereby setled as such a Rock that the gates of Hell shall never be able to prevail against it The second Argument 2 Argument shall be drawn from Jesus his fulfilling all the Prophesies that went before concerning the Messiah All things did concur in his Person which were foretold concerning the Person of the Messiah and all things were done and suffered by him that were foretold to be done and suffered by the Messiah and therefore he was the true Messiah This was another great Argument which Jesus himself used Search the Scriptures for they are those that testifie of me John 5.39 And tells them that if they did not shut their eyes they might plainly see all things so exactly fulfilled in him that if they did not believe in him Vers 45 46 47. Moses himself would bear witness against them For if they had believed Moses writings and rightly understood them they would have believed Jesus to be the Messiah So when Jesus after his Resurrection was going with the two Disciples to Emmaus Luk. 24.25 26 27. he began at Moses and so through all the Prophets expounded unto them those things which were written concerning himself and blames them for that they had searched and understood the writing of the Prophets no better Acts 17.2 3. And the Apostle Paul at Thessalonica entered into the Synagogue three Sabbath dayes And reasoned with them out of the Scriptures opening and alledging that Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ And again it is said elsewhere Acts 18.28 that St. Paul mightily convinced the Jews and that publickly shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus is Christ It is very observable that the Evangelists in relating many of the passages of our Saviours life do refer to the Prophesies that foretold these things This and This was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by this and the other Prophet and then was fulfilled the saying of the Prophets c. Luk. 24.44 So Jesus saith These are the words that I spake unto you while I was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning me Yea he was so exact in accomplishing all the Prophesies that when he was upon the Cross in extremity of pain and knew that all things were fulfilled save only that one Prophesie which foretold that they should give him Vinegar to drink he therefore gives occasion for the fulfilling of it before he would die John 19.28 Vers 30. and when that was done he said It is finished and then gave up the Ghost Now that we may be the more sensible how Jesus did fulfil all the Prophesies that went before concerning the Messiah let us consider it in these several Branches 1. It was foretold that the Messiah should spring from the Loyns of Abraham and in the Line of the House of David Gen. 22.18 and Chap. 49.8 Isa 11.1 Now this was exactly fulfilled as we see Mat. 1. Luk. 3. where the Pedegree is traced up to David and thence to Judah and so to Abraham And for this very purpose we may conceive these Genealogies to be set down even to satisfie us that Jesus came of these Families as it had been foretold concerning him 2. It was foretold that he should be born of a Virgin Isa 7.14 Behold a Virgin shall