Chap. 2. Sett. 1. JL,ootung unto 'jltfu.s. Book IV. 35-9 fecute Cbrift in his Members, Saul, Sa,./, why perfwmft tho" m• ? it u hd;d fw rhee to kjck._ againft the prick.!. 3. They cover his face, that do not rea~tly and wtll!ngly -con- Luke '"i 16; fefstheir fins, that extenuate their frailties and imperfections, Wt~h counterfeit prete~t~. -4· They mock and fcoff at Chrift, that fcorn and contemn hts Meffengers and 1\!tn~>- flers. He that de(pifethyou, defpifeth me, faith Chri!t 0 th<lt we .would lay thefe things to o,lr beam, and fee and obferve wherein we frand guilty of thefe fins, th~t we maY: repent. ' ~. Confider Chriflians, and read Chrift's Love in all thefe fufferi~gs; 0 un-heal'd.oi ·' r.. ' kindnefs and truly paternal bowels of pity and compaffion! who ever heard\before oF any that'wouldbe content to be fpit upon, to wipe their filths whofpi,t upoR~ _that would be content to be bear, and buffeted, to fav.e them from.buffets;•who werl! dt.a't:iUffetters ~ that would be content to be blind-folded, that he might neitherta.ke ni>tf<f~Of, nor fee the offences of them that blindfold<d him? that would b.. content ro·be mad'e- \t fcorn, to fave them from fcorn, that fhall fcor~ him ? Chrilliansf you tha~ t.i:kt'yoni' name from Chrift, how fhould you admire at the ln6ni1enefs and immenfity of thi9l6vi! of Chrit1? was it a fmall thing that the wifdom of Godfhould bewmf the ·fooliJJ.nefs of men, and fcorn of men, and ignominy of men, and comem; t. bf .Dhe world fot< -your , . .,.,_. fins fake: Othink of this! · ":'i. ·· ",' ,;1···· ·t~ ~ '{J'• j :-·:....... And now the difmal night is done; what remains, but that we follow Chrilt, alld ~g.; ferve nim in his Sufferings the next day_! the Pfalmffi.tells us, Sorrow itl~je~Jiu~e Pial. io:'r7"t for a mght, bm JOY cometh m the mormng : only Chnft can .find none of dill j6y neither morning nor evening; for after a difmal night, he meets with as dark ll day: what the paffages of the4Jaywcre, we fhall obferve in their fu\teraiJhour:s,c· ,; - ·:, .., "v~ ~~Ju :· .. 0 ]o ·· ... 1., i·1 .. ,,. · .. Bout fix in the morning Jcfus was brought unto J'il11te's houfe; .•then led JohA 1 s. z8. they Jefm from C~ipha<unrozhe Jttdgmem-H~U, andit wa~early.--Mat.a7.1,:o,J; When the Morningwa~comp, \.itehechief Prieftumd,Eldetsof the 1l0f>h 4,5. ·• tooh__council againft Jefm to pue!him to d111th·; an'd when they had,}qui,.ll ' ' him, andled h;,., away, and delwered him .fo Pontil# Pi/are the!GII'llernour. .Then {NdM which hadbrttayed him, hlmgedhtmfelf. 0 tbe readi• our nature to evtll ~hen the!fradites would facrifice to the Golden€;1if,they . . . rofe u~ >arly in the mo_rning ; tf G?d.leave us to our felves, ·we are as ready"'to p~al'ii~ Exod. 32;d'; mtfchtef, as the fire ts to burn, wnhout all delay. But on this. C:il:cumflanc-oi·fhal~not n?n ftay; the tranfactions of this hour I fh;lil confider in thefe tWo paffages, Chrill:fsJ:~ dtctment, and 'fudais fearful end. · ·. ., lnC~rift'slndiC:tment, we may obferve, r. His Accufation. 2 • His Examination; ' In l11s Accufanon wemay obferve, I. Who arc his Accufers. z. Wherehew.as accufe~. 3· What was the matter of which tbey do accufe him. .! · , I .. Hts Acc~fers were thechiefPriefts andEldmofth< People. the very fame-that before M t 7 • · had JUdged htm g.uiuy of de_ath, are MW hi~ Accufers before 'th~ temporal Judge: but a ·• •"• why ~ufl our Savtour be twtce iudged? wa> not the Sanhedrim, or Ecclefiafrical Court fuffinemtocondemn !urn? Ianfwer, -he is twice judged; r. That his Inn<iccncy ~~hdmore appear; .true Gold often tried in the fire i~ not confumed, but radJ<!r.pere e ; fo Chrtfl's tmegrity, though examined ;gain and again, by dive(s Judges wh~lly.corrupt.; yet thereby it Wits not burr, but made rather more illuftrious. z .Becad ef·~fir~~r-},udgmemwas iu the night, and a fentencc pronounced then was not rcpud }~ va 1. ; ,'tiS atd.of Mofes, that he j•<dged the peopu from the morning unto the evenimg'. Exo ·' 8 IJJ runul mghr no Judgment ~vas protracted. · 3· Becaufe, faidthe '[ews, it u not la.;_ John ti.3•· fnl
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