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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54041	The Jew outward being a glasse for the professors of this age : wherein if they read with meekness... such of them as have not overslipt the day of their visitation, may see their own spirits to their own everlasting advantage and comfort by learning subjection to that which hath power in it to destroy this evil spirit in them : containing some exceptions and arguments of the Jews against Christs appearance in that fleshly form of his in their dayes which the present professors may view and compare with their exceptions and arguments against his appearance in spirit in this age, that they may see and consider which of them are the more and the more weighty / by Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1174; ESTC R28792	26,555	33

him back to Pilate Luke 23.9 10 11. Pilate professed that he could not find him guilty of this second charge neither of perverting the people vers. 14. therefore chastising him he would release him vers. 16. But the people by the perswasion of the chief Priests and Elders cried all at once Away with this man and release unto us Barbas vers. 18. but let him be crucified crucifie him crucifie him vers. 21. c. Now when Pilate had scourged him and the Souldiers had stripped him and put on him a Scarlet Robe and had put a Crown of platted Thornes on his head and a Reed in his right hand and had bowed the knee to him in Mockery and spit on him and smote him with a Reed he brings him forth to them again hoping this might appease there malice and they might be content to spare his being crucified They tell him they have a Law and by their Law he ought to dye because he made himself the Son of God John 19. vers. 4. to 8. see how they turn and wind every way to make the innocent an offender and to make some Law of one kind or other take hold of him But when all their accusations would not prevail with Pilate but still from the sense of his innocency he had a mind to release him they use another subtile artifice telling him if he let this man go he was not Caesars friend John 19.12 This carries it with Pilate now he disputes no further but delivers him up to their will Luke 23.5 Now thou who readest this take heed of judging the Jews for all this wickedness while the same nature is alive in thee which did all this in them for assuredly thou in whom that nature which did it in them is not subdued wouldst have done the same thing hadst thou lived in those dayes Thou that disdainest and persecutest the appearance of Christ in this age whuldst have disdained have persecuted his appearance in that age do not deceive thy Soul The Jews did as little think that ever they should have put a Prophet or any good man to death much less the Messiah as thou canst yea they could blame their Fathers for killing the Prophets and say if they had lived in those dayes they would not have done it and yet dost thou not read what they did The persecuting Spirit was ever blind and could in no age read its evil and bitter nature and its enmity against the life and power Be not thou blind in thy day as they were in theirs and an enemy under pretence of being a friend 4. Another exception or argument against him about the time of his suffering death was that he did not put forth his power to save himself from the cross he saved others let him save himself if he be Christ the chosen of God Luke 23.35 Is it likely that this is the Son of God and that he did so many miracles by the power of God and cannot now save himself from the cross This his suffering death on the Cross did a little stumble some of the Disciples as may appear Luke 24.20 21. and was enough to have overturned the faith of any which stood not in the Spirit and in the power The Souldiers also could mock and manage this argument against him saying If thou be the King of the Jews save thy self Luke 23.37 And they that passed by reviled him wagging their heads and saying Thou that destroyest the Temple and buildest it in three dayes save thy self If thou be the Son of God come down from the Cross Mat. 27.39 40. Likewise the chief Priests with the Scribes and Elders mocked among themselves saying he saved others himself he cannot save Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the Cross that we may see and believe Mark 15.31 32. One of the Thieves also railed on him saying If thou be the Christ save thy self and us Luke 23.39 And when he cryed out to his God Eli Eli c. they derided him This man calleth for Elias let us see whether Elias will come to save him Mat. 27.47 49. And after he was dead the chief Priests and Pharisees spake of him as of a known deceiver vers. 63. And seem in a pious zeal for the Church to take care that there be no further occasion after his death for the reviving and spreading of his deceit and errors vers. 64. Thus the holy one the pure one the just and true one in whose heart and mouth was no guile found was numbred among transgressors accounted a deceiver and put to death as a blasphemer by the zealous priests and professors of that age who were so confident of the righteousness of their cause on the behalf of the Law of Moses and their Sabbaths Temple c. against him that when Pilate washed his hands as clear of his bloud all the people answered and said his bloud be on us and on our children Mat. 27.25 Now let men consider what the great exceptions are which they have against the living appearance of Christ in his Spirit now towards the close of the apostacy and against us his witnesses whom the Lord hath called forth to testifie to his name Many exceptions men have against our Persons our Doctrine our Practises for want of miracles c. Is this generation more wise or just in their exceptions then the former was Consider the main ones a little Their great exceptions against our Doctrine are 1. That we preach up a light within and that he that receiveth that light receiveth a perfect gift and growing up in it groweth up to perfection which in this life through faith and obedience to this light or perfect gift may be attained and the body of sin put off and the new man Christ put on Answ. Indeed we cannot but preach up the light within and declare unto men how great things it hath done for us even that which we could never by any means meet with from any light without And this is perfect and tends to make perfect carrying on its work daily Now he that feels its virtue cannot doubt of its power He that seeth the body of sin daily going off cannot doubt but he may be stripped Indeed if a man strive against sin in his own will and by his own gathered knowledg he cannot get much ground and so it is hard for him to believe perfection But he that feels unity with that which is perfect cannot but acknowledg that it is able to perfect him and in faith and patience is encouraged to hope and wait for it 2. That we deny that Christ which dyed at Jerusalem and his imputed righteousness and set up an inherent righteousness Answ. We know no other Christ then that which dyed at Jerusalem only we confess our cheif knowledg of him is in Spirit And as Christ said in the dayes of his flesh that the way to know his Father was to know him and that he that knew