Chap. 2. Sect. 4· JLcolttng unto jjcfu.S'. rhat was fhin; rhe lot fell upon him to dye for us_; all ~ur fins were laid upon his foul: f 0 that in this fence Jefus Chrift was the greareft hnner mthe world.' ye~, •.greater fin– ner rhan Barabbas himfelf, and therefore he mull: dye, and we bemg d1pt m the blood of Chrift mull: be let loofe, am! fer at liberty! was not this love ? be dyed that we might live; it was the voice of God as well as men, Rc/eafc Barabbas, every believing Barabbas, and crucifie [efw. . Anothe.r hour is gone, let us make a !land for awhile; and the nexttime we meet, we !hall fee furrher fufferings. SECT. IV. Of Chrift Jfrippcd, whipped, claatbed in purple, and crownedwith thorns. ABournine (which the Jewscall the third hour of the day) wasChrift !!ripped~ whipped, cloathed with purple, ~nd crowned with thorns; in this hour his fuf– feringscame thick, I muitdivide them into parrs, and fpeak of them feverally by rhem– fdv<S. · I.. When Pi/ate faw how rhe Jews were fet upon his death, be confented, and deli~ . vered him firft to be ftripped. Then thefot~ldiers of the Governour took_[ejiu into the Mat. 27 , , 7, common .hall and gathered unto him the whole band of [011ldicrs, and they ftripped him. ' They pulled off his clothes, and made h.im ftand naked before them all; He that adorns . rj{e Heaven with Stars, and the Earth With Flowers, andmade coats of s~n• t~ cloMh our G•n·3· u; Jirft Parents in, IS now h1mfelf ftnpped !larknaked; I cannot but look on this as a great !hame ; it appears fo by our firfr Parents Adam andEve, who no fooner had finned, and knew themfelves naked, but they [o1~ed Jig-leaves. together'. and made themfclves aprons. G<n. 3 , 7; Jf Adamwas fo afi1:med of his nakednefs before Ius own W1fe (who was nak~d too, as · well as he) what alh•me, and blu01 was itin the face of Chri!l, when in the common hall ,in view of rhe whole band,or company of fouldiers,he !lands all naked? My confu. fionucontinuallybeforeme, andthe Jhameof "'Y facehathcoveredme, faithDavidin the P(:\ 4 9 Perfon of Chrift. It is.reporred, in the Ecclefiaftical fiory, that when twoMartyrs, and a ' 4 ' 1 ' holy Virgins (they call them Agnes, and Barbar") were!lripped llarknaked for their execution, God pitying their great !hame and trouble, to have their nakednefs difcovered, made for them a veil of light, and fo he fem them to a mode!!, and defired death. bur our Saviour Chri!l, who cho{e all forts of !hame and confuuon, that by a fulnefs of fuffering he might expiate his Fathers wrath, and confecratc·to us all kinds of fufferings and affronts, he endured the fi1ame of nakednefs at the rime of his fcourging; fee !iere a naked Chri!l, and therein fee the mercy of Chrift to us; he found us like the goods,_ maritan, when we were !\ripped, and wounded, and left half dead, and that we might be covered, he quietly fuffered himfelf to be divefted of his own robes ; he took on him the frare of finning Adam, and became naked, that we might firft be doathed with righteoufnefs, and then with immortality; oh what ableffed ufe may we make of the very nakednefsof Chrift? - 2 • . Pilate gave him to be fconrged; this Jome think he did upon no other accounr; bur that the Jews being fatiated and glutted with rhefe tortures, they might re!lfatis– fied, and rhink rhemfelve~ fufficienrly avenged, ~nd fo defill from raking away his life. That he was fcourged is without conrroverlle, for fo the Evangelift relates, Then Pi- . h .late too~ !efm and fco~<rged l•im: and that Pilate might give him to be fcourged on that Jo n '9· 1 • ·account rs very. probable, becaufe that after the fcourging; he brings him out to the Jews, proclaimmg, I fin.! no fault ill him; and before his fcourging hefpeaks it more ver. ~. exprefly, He hathdone n_othing wmhy of death, I will therefore chafti(e him, and re/e"(e Luko , J,J$1 hrm.. And It •dds to tlus, that howfoever the cufrom was, that rhofe that were to be t6. crunfied mull firfr be whipped, yet If they were adjudged to dye, their ftripes wtft be . . lefs, and if they were to be Jet at liberty they mttft he beaten with more f/ripes · And Pilate J~er, •;Mar. 'endeavouring to preferve his life, they fcourged bim above mea(ure, e~en almofi t() 1 J.um om. 9 ' death. . In this fcourging of Chri!l I !hall inufr on tl:efe two things. 1. The 01ame. 2 . The pam. . , 1. For
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