------------------------- '; Chap.r,Se&.6 L,eking Nnto 1efos. Book IV. Author gives it thU$; *As 11 rat~rinf , rv1mpin~ Lyon draws along •s· 1 . h . 1 • d¥ 11 • ' r; h h / J 'h· ; a /CUI CO Til!, I• the rart hu pray, ann :eares tt, an _puus rt; Jot :J a e G rt1, ens, (9'rJpicns aft al&ng the earth, Ipmmg, b;,fJetrng, pullrng htm by the hayrr. tra/Jit pra!Jam Another in like manner thu,, * they all rujb violently upcn him, rcr rcrram (9' · they fiing him to the ground, rhry kjck_him, te11re him, j]mrne him, t,J~ew, & !J· Pull off' the hayre both off his heud and bem·d. Of every of thefedvut,(9 1""' 1·)~cc b . ·. . . . fi , b 1 IT. CVJ Cll I tn paffageswe tindeScnptures ud, many u /!s 1J.~vc compr-11 cdme, f:> 1aJ, 11 , ft~ong bu_lls of 'B_afban have _beJct me ro~md, tht] g .1ped ttpon me· Or1u e_J impc~ wrth thetr mouths, liS a ravcmng r.nd roarzng Lyon . tum Jacturtt lit . We are apt to cry out on '1 ud.u , and the }ewes ; and we chink,~-~' &c.- Oh if we had been in their fi ea d we lhould nev~r have done th~s; Ia · ;vi~:,, 3 but lay afide a whtl~ thofe mfl:rumen :s, and look we at the pnnciple caufe. had not we an hand in all thefe aCl:ings ? did not we confpire hi~ death, and apprehenfion in reference to it? Oh my fim ! my fins! thefe were the band, ' the captaine, and the officers -; thefewere the maltitude , a multitude indeed , if I !hould tell them, I might tell a thoufand, and yet not tell one of a thoufand; the!e were the .fouldiers that befet him round, the bulls chat compatTed him about , the roaring Lyons that gaped upon him with their moJths; O'my heart,why lhouldfi thou rife up againfi the Jews , when thou find'ft the trayter, and the whole rout of officers in thy fe :fe.? Oh that thou wouldeil: turne the edg~ of thy deteilation into its right il:reame and channel I Oh that thou wouldefi remember thy own wayes, and all thy doings, wherein thou haft been defiled,, and that thou wouldll: loath Ez,k to H ·' ' thy [elf in thy ~wn fight f or all the e-vils that thou h.tjl com- ' ' •· mirted! 3. For Chrifis binding, the Evangelift cells us, that t he band, · a~d th'e capttt ine, and the ojfi~·l rs of the '1,ewes took_ 'fefus, and boun;fJoh.IS.l& hsm, €J'n1' «v, they bound h1s hands Wtth cords; a type ot th1s was Sampfin, whom Dalilah bound with ropes; fo they bound him with ropes, or cords, fore• /hewi ng hereby that he muft dye; they never ufing to bind any with ropes, or cords , but thofe wh.)m undoubtedly they purpofed to crucifie; Some adde the circumfiances of this binding, thllt they bound him with three cords, and ·that with fuch violence that they caufed blood to fiart out of his tender hands; cer_tainly they wanted no maltce, and now they wanted no power , for the Lurd had given himfelfimo. ~heir hands; Binding argues bafeneffe; 1t is ftoried of AlexC c cc 3_ andtr ,,
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