r---·--------------------------------------------------- 540. Book IV. Looking unto 1efns. Chap. 1 .Sed. I ---·------------ tranfad:ions of this time, we fhall obferve them, as they were carryed on fucceffi vely in thofe few hours of his paffioa, and death. As thi~ work of man~ falvation was great, fo we cannot but obferve how every peice of it was carryed on in its due time, even from eternity to eternity. The very time of Chri{h paffion de. pended not on the wi-ll of man, for his enemie~ fought many a time before to Oay him; a:sHaod in his infancy, Mtttth. z. 16. the Jewes in his riper age, when fometimes they took up fionei to fione him, '/oh. 8. 59. and fometimes they would have broke l1is neck from an hill, L uk.A·29- but his time was not then com;.• ·ExoJ. 11 , z. (,We readeofthe pafchallambe that it was to be flaine, on the fourttenth daJ of the Jirft moneth called Abib, or 'lXjfan: at the full of the moone in the e·vening, . ~r between the evenings; fome think this moneth anfwers to our March, otherno our ll.April, I fhall not be too curious in the inqui!ition, for I think it not worth the while; only this 1 cannot but oHerve, that the fame day that the Iambe mufi be Oaine, mull our pafchal Lambe begin his fuffer- 'ings : and a~ then it was full moone, fo .it notes unto us the fulneffe oftime which now was come; and as it was in fiKh a moneth as when light prevailcs againfi darkneffe, and every thing rev:ves and fp11ings, 'fo Chrifi by his 1ufferings was to chafe away our darkneffe and death, and t9 bring in light, and life, and a bleffed fpring of grace and glory; and as it was to be Oaine in the eveninb or betn>een the evening ; fo mufi Chrifi the true pafchal Lambe be facrificed about th~ very fame houre, that the myfiical Lambe wasflaine; to underfiaod wAich we mufi know, that the Jewc; difiinguiibed their artificial day into foure parts, from !ix to nine, from nine to twelve, fro(J1 .twelve to three, from three to eight, thislafl part was counted the evening of the day, and the next 'three houres tht evening ofrhe ni·g~t; now in this !art part oftne day ufed the pafChal Iambe to be Oaine, and after it was Oaine fome time was t8ken up to drelfe it whole ror fupper; fo Chrifi at the fourth part of the day, at their nineth houre, that is at our three ofthe clock in the afternoone; between the evenings, with a loud voyce yr, !Jrd up the Gkojl. M-at. 17'• so· For the whole rtme of thele !aft and extreame fuffering~ of Chnft, T fhall reduce them to fomewhat leffe than one natural ~ay; or if we may tak!! the, whole. day before us, con!ifting of twenty
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