Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year Mdccxci
Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year Mdccxci
Robert Morres
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23, 24. I Cor, iii. 2. Hcb. V. 11, 12. •^ Joh, xvi. 12, 13.. iliew g4 S E R M O N IV. fliew he could not, which is, I think, clearly out of his power. The argument therefore might fafely flop here. But we might perhaps not be miftaken if we were alfo to fuggeft, as we well may, that the Jews were at this period fo bigotted to the letter of the Mofaical Law, to the promifes of a temporal kingdom under the Meffias, and confequently againft the meannefs of Chrifl's appearance, that a direct aifert...ion of this tenet at the commencement of the Gofpel, muft have not only had the effecSb of rendering them all, even his own difciples, incapable of believing it, but would have exafperated them beyond all bounds, and have cut off at once all intercourfe between the Saviour and thofe to whom he was fent. I do not here fpeak from conjedture, but appeal to fadt. The fuperftitious reverence in which they held the Incommuni- cable Name, and many other far worfe motives did actually let loofe their utmoft rage againft our Lord whenever he intimated his heavenly nature, and led them to dired: attempts againft his life.
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