Chap.I.Sect,7 L6Pkingunt61efu!. Book. IV. Parc.3. 577 buffeted him, and others[mote him . with the p11lmes of their hands, M 6 6 8 {aying, prophefie unto U5 thou Chrifl, who r4 he that (mote thee? and L:~~ 12 ;./;.6 as Luk.e adds, many &thtr things blaJPhem&ujly fPak_e they againft him . what thofe many other things were, it is not difcovered ; onlyfome ancient writers fay, that Chrill: in that night fuffe:ed fo many and fuch hideous things, that the whole ~now/edge ~f the"! ,;r Hier ,ut citat referved only for the "taft day of Judgement. r...J'y{aflomus Wntes Guliel. ftatione thus, after Caiphao and the 'Priefts hadflntenc'd Cbri.ft worthy ~fter~ia ~hrifti death they committed him to their Minifters w11rily to be k}pt till patrllemrsd. fi ' d h . t· I h h' . h d . C . h Ma ou, e a· dtty· an t ey tmmeazate;; t rew sm mto t e ungron In Atp as g(U tiwe houfl, there they bound him to a{Jony pill11r, with hu h11nds bound cb:i{li c 6. on his back._, and then they fell upon him with their palmes, 11nd fifts. Laudul . depajJ. 1 Others adde, that the fouldiers not pt content, they threw him into & alij. a filthy durty puadle,where he abode for the remainder of that night; ofwhich the Pjlfllmi.ft, thou haft laid me in the !owefl pit, in dark_ne[l, and in the deeps; and I fink._ in the deep myre where there r4 no ftanding. 'Behold the brd which is Solomons, or rather which is Chrifis, Nll.88. 6. for a greater t~an Sol~mon is here; behold the flourifhing bed g;:;.6~·t· wherem the Kmg of Samts doth · lye; furely a place mofi fordtd, 3 7 • full offtench ; his other fenfes had their paine, and his fmell felt a loathfome favour, in this noyfome puddle. ' But we need nor. borrow light from candles, or Ieifer frarrs; the Scripture it felfe is plaine; ·obferve we thefe particulars.-- l. They fpit in his face, this was accounted among the Jews a · matter ofgreat infamy and reproach, and the Lord[aid to Mo[es, N umh.11, r-ti-' - if her f ather h,1d but[pit in Her face, foould foe not be afoamed fe.av~n dayes ? we our felvesaccount this a great affront, and fo did 1 -'fob, I am thtir font , and their f.y werd; they abhor me, they fly far ]o'o 30· 9,1~. from me, and[pare not to [pit in m; face. Oh that the fweet face of ( hrifi , fo-much honoured and adored in heaven fhould be defiled and deformed 1.1y their fpitting! oh that no place fhou'd be thought !o fit for them.to avoyd their excrements and drivel in, asthe blelfed face of JefusCh rift. I hid not my faa (faith Chrifi) (rom/hame ad (pitting; I ufed no maske to keep me I fa. ~ o, 6. faire, though- I was fairer than the fons of men, I pr_eferved .not my beauty from their nafiy fleame, but I opened my face, and I fet it as a butt for them to dart their frothy fp ittle at. . .. , Ecee 2. lhey
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