Looking unto 1efUt. Chap.t.Se6l:.6 Book IV. ------- ----------------------------------------~ the head, ~tnd that they lui. him in uncouth wayes, and through the broDk Cedron, in which the ruder fouldiers plunged him, and paf[ed up,-n him all the affronts, snd rrdrnefJe, which an infolent and cruel multitude could think of. So that now againe was the fulfilling of the PropheGe , he jha/l drin~ ~f,he brook)n the WilY' Pfal. IIO 7· Vfe I da~e t:lOt deliver thefe things as certaine truths; only this 1 · affirme~ that they led him, fnatcht him, haled him from the garden back againe to (erufalem, over the brook and valley called Cedron.- 2. They led him firft to Ann.u ; why thither, is a queftion; the cognizance o_fthe canfe belonged not properly to AnnM, but to Caiph.u ; all that can be faid for rv1nn.u, is, that he was chiefe 9f the Sanhedrim, and father-in-law to (aiph.u, and to be high Prieft the next yeare following. Oh when l think of Jefus thus led away to AnnMfirft; when I think of him partly going, and partly baled forwards, and forced to haften his grave pace.; when I think of him thrown into, or plunged in the waters of the brook, and fo forced to drink of the brook Cedron in the way; when I think of him prefented by a deale offouldiers, and rude catch-poles to this mercinary Ann.u ; and withal think that I had an hand as deep as any other in thefe aCts; my heart muft either break, or I muft proclaime it an ·heart offlint, and not of fle{h; come Chriftians, let us lay oar hands upon our hearts, and cry, Oh my pride ! ~tnd oh my covetouf nef{e! and oh m,1 malice and revenge l oh my unbelief! and oh my unthank[ulnej[e J nnd oh my unc/Jarirablenej[e to the needy members ofChrift (e[UJ! whJ thefe were the rout, thefewere they-thatlcd, and dragg'd,and drew rrfus (as it were) by the hayre of his bra~; ;thefe wm they that to@lzho!d of the chaim, and pullea him fmvads, and [bewed him in tryumph to thu bloody rv1nn.:u, 1M} thefe were the 'fud.u, ( ewn, Ann~, and all: Oh that ever l fbou!d lo~'!,e withir1 me fuch tzn heart, that (bou!d lodge in ir fuch fins, fuch betrayers, fuch murth rers of 'fef114 Chrift. lCa.u.11,U. But I mnft remember tny felfe, whtttchman, what of the night? wh.ttchman, JThat of the night ? if ye will enquire, fnquire, returne, come. We may now fuppofe it about the third houre, or the !all watch ; in the Gofpel it is called the fourth watch of the night; dfewhere it is called the morning watch, which continuetl1 till the mornMlt• 14•~5. Exod.r4.~1. p[al. 130.6. ing.
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