- 544 Boo'k IV. L6oking tmto feftU, Chap. I. Sect.::, -----------~------ he drinks of them, he doth i10t fip, but drink ; /;e foalt drinl(_of the brook)n ~he wap I know f?me would not have this prophefie -accompbilied t11l a fore Chrdl:s apprehetJfion, when it is faid that the rude route brought himagaine i:o '/auf.dem, over the brook Cedron; .and then he drunk of the brook; but I finde no menti· on of this brook in Scripture at fuch a time; only now in thi& · way, I finde tbde pdfages. I. Hts conference with his difciplcs as they go along. 2. The difcir1es reply upon his .conference. 3 .His dolorous pa!fage over the brook)betokening the very wrath ofGod. ,. Vid. Areri11 ~, I. l n the way* he hath a ferious conference with his difciplcs: in locum. fo theEvangehft; ~tnd when they had fung an hymne, they went Mac,1.6.3o,3~· out tow,u·ds the mount of0/:ves, and then faith {e[us unt.o them, all ye fo'all be offended becaufe o{me thjs night, for it is written, I wilt [mite the focpheard, and the fheep of the fl ock, /hall be featured abroad. Chrift now begins the ftory ofhis paffion ; the fbephe~td foal/ be[mitten ; .and he proves it from Gods decree, and from Z1ch. 13 •7· the Prophefie of the Prophet Zachary I 3. 7· awak! 0 [word AgainH my fbepheard, and t~gainft the man thllt is my fe!l~w, fmite the (hepheard, ar~d the foeep fba/l be fcattered abroad. God the Father is here brought in, as drawing and whetting his {word, and calling upon it, to do execution again£\: Jefus Chrift, God the Ifa.B.to. Fatherhadanhandin thefufferings, itpleafed thfLord to bruife him, he hath put him to grief. -1 willfmi'te the fbepheard, faith .God; it w.as not a naked permifiion, but a pofitive decree, and actual providence of God that Chrift ihould fuffer; the plot was long fince drawn; and lay hid in Gods bofome, till he was pleafed by the actions of men to copy it out, and to give the world a draught of it. This was not a thing ofyell:erday ; no, no ; God fpent his eternal thoughts about it, the ftory was long Pfal. 4°·, 8 • (ince written in Z11charies b.ook, and in the volume6f Gods book..; Cnrift was ordained to be a Lambe flaine from the beginning of A a. 2., z 3· the world; him being delivered by the determin ~ie Counce!, and fore·lznowledge ofGod, ye have takfn (faith Peter) and by wicksd · h.mds have crucified andJlaine : the enemies of Chrift though . they broke commands, yet they fulfilled decrees; Againft th] Ad. 4· 17> 28 ·holy child 'fefus whom thou hafl annoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles, and pe~ple of!frat! weregathered together~ fo~ to do whafoever thy b,md, and th] counce/ dmrmi11ed, befgre b;
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