Chap. 1 .Sect.6. Book. IV. 567 was {hong as death, it overcame him who is invincible, and bound him who is omnipotent; the Jewes cords were but the fymboles and figures, but the deare love, the tender bowels of Jefus Chrift were the morals, and thi~gs fignified; Againe, Chrift was bound that we might be free; the "' cords of ChdH: were fo full ofvertue, that they loofed the chaines of our fins, and tyed the hands of Gods juftice, which were firetched out . againft us for our fins. Againe, he was bou·nd for us, that fo he might bind us to himfdfe. I drew them with cards of i!l man, with Hor. 11 4 b1md1 of love. A llrange thing it was to fee the King bound for · · ' the thieves offence, but fuch was Chrifts love, that he might draw finful mankind to the love of him againe. Lafily, one good lelfon We may learn from Wicked JHdM; tale! him, ttild fead him away fafe!y:- hold him (aft. Come t. hriftians! heres good' .councel from a '/udM ·; like another CaiphM, he prophel1es be knows not what ; tak.,e him and lead him IJW<'l)' ; 11nd hold hi1r1 faH. It is of neceffity that thofe which fpiritually feek afrer 'Chrift, iliould take him by faith; and hold him faft by love; I will rife mw (faith the Spoufe) I will feek... him whom my fsulloveth;-and a none, I found him whom mr foul lovetb, I held him, Cam,3 ~,44 and would not let him go; untill I hi!!d brought him into my 1111others hou[e, into the chambers of her that conceivedme: We mufl: arife .out ofthe bed of fin, we muft feek Chrift in the ufe ofordinances, ~nd there ifwe finde him, we muft take him, lay hold on him by the hands offaith,and not let him go, but lead him fafely untill, we have brought him into our mothers houfe,into the affembliesQf his people: or if you will untilt we have brought him, into our fouls, where he may fup with us, and.we wit~: him. 4· For his leading to AnnM, 'fohn records it, that they /~d him Joh.1s away to AnnM firft,forhewM father-in-l.rw to CaiphM, wh11 wM ' 13 ' the high PriFft that fame yeare. I. They led him away, «--.,.,.)'ttjloY,, it refers to the place whence they led him; the garden was the terminus a quo, there they apprehended him, and hound him, and: thence they led him away;_ but t~e word A.,.iiJI"' is fomething • . more than meerly abduco ; fomettmes it fignificsc 11bigo, to drive Ecc~:;,abeka. b h b t: f d r · . d r. . . tur paJJu prza. aw~y ~ et er y 1orce or rau ; 1?met1mes-r.zf1o a 1 upplte~~m, nidia virgo cri• ~d pedscandum_ ;_ to·. fnatch away etther to pum!bment, _or to·nibu,, Vi r g~~ . Jl!d&_emer:tt : 1t1s.fatclthat thC) :drew him away by the hams 'f lEneid.x. thi
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