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¶ A Sermon made vpon this text, John. 8. 46.
Quis ex vobis arguit me de peccato, Si veritatem dico vobis quare non creditis mihi? Which of you can rebuke me of sinne, and if I say the truth why doe yee not beleeue mee?
WHen I was assigned to this place, and per∣vsed the Text of the Gospell for this day, seeing the first verse thereof to bee these wordes which nowe I haue recited vnto you, I could not but thinke it, to bee some part of Gods gracious prouidence, there-by, to put mee in minde, & giue mee full occasion, to speake* 1.1 of those things, which in conscience, I thinke most necessa∣rie at this time, and in this place, to bee vttered. These wordes (deerely beloued) are a parte of that notable con∣ference, which was betweene our Sauiour Christ, and the Jewes Ioh 8. Wherein both of them, are so earnest in de∣fence of their part, as hardly the lyke is to be found, in the whole historie of the Euangelistes. The Jewes in defence of their Synagogue, denie Christ to bee the light of the world, that shoulde open the true way of saluation to men, but affirme, that he was an a••bitious, and vaine glorious man, bearing witnesse of himselfe, for his owne credites sake: yea they say, he is a Samaritane, a worker with di∣uells, a blasphemer of God, and therefore (lastly) take vp stones, and draue him by violence out of the place: A verye ryght paterne of the enemyes of Christ and hys Church. On the other part, Christ in deede mooued wyth the true zeale of Gods house, after hee had declared, that hee was the lyght of the worlde, which, hee that followed, should not walke in darkenesse, but see the truth of euerla▪ sting life, he euidently proueth, that the Jewes were not, as they pretended to bee, the right seede of Abraham, for▪