Chap.z.Seet.I . LI6kingunto!fefus, 13ook IV. Part.3. 591 ·cal court fufficient to condemne him? I anfwer;- he is twice judged, 1. That his inn~cency might more appeare; true oold often tryed in the fire, IS not con fumed, hut rather perfed- ~d; fo Chrill:s integrity though examined ~gaine and againe by diver:s Judges wholly corrupt, yet thereby It was not hurr, but .made rather more illull:rious. . 2. Becaufe his liril:er judgement 'was in the night, and a fentence pronou :iced then was not reputed va :id,it is faid of Mofes that he judged th: people from the morn- Excd 1s,l' ;. ing untQ the evening ; for uhtill mght no judgement was protraded. 3. Becaufe faid the Jewes, it is nut lawful for us to pu,t Joh.18 31. any m11n to death. Thefe words had need of expofition; we know Mofes law prefcribed death to the adulterers, idobters, .bJafphemers, man-flayers, Sabbath-breakers; but now the Romani (fay fomt>) had come and rell:rained the Jews from the execution oftheir laws; others are ofanother minde, and therefore the meaning of thefe words, it iJ not lawful for 11.1 to put any man to death, may be underll:ood (fay they) in a double fenfe. I. That it.was · not lawful for them to pu~ any man to iuch a dea-th, as the death of the croffe \ Mo(es law was ignorant of . fuch a death ; and the words following feem to favour .this interpretation, that the faying of Jefm might be fulfilled which he Job. 18.p, .(p.tk_:, fignifJing what death he jhould dye. We reade only offoure forts ofdeath that were ufed among the] ewes, as ftrangling, ftoning, burning, and killing .with the fword; crucifying was the invention of R~mans, and not of Jews. -2. That i~ was not lawful for them to put any man to death at fuch a time; on this day was celebrated the Jews Paffeover, which was in memo,. ry of their deliverance out of Egypt; fo that now they had a cuftomcto deliver Come from death (the cafe of Barabb.u) but they could not now condemne any one to death; hence it was that after Herod the Jew had killed J>fmes, he proceeded further ·to take Peter alfo; yet during the dayes of unleavened bread, he A :l delivers him to be kept in prifon, intending (faith the text) after c ', .::., 4 , Eafter to bring him forth to the people, Pilate a Gentile was not tyedto thefelaws, and therefore they ledJefusfrom Caiph'.u unto the hall of judgeme~Jt, or unto Pilates houfe. ' 2. The place of the accufation was at the dore of the"houfe; Joh.18 :3. they wouU not!/ into t .~e judgement· hal!, left they jhouldbe defiled, JJUt that the; mtg_ht eat the Paffeover. See what. a.piece of fuper- . E e ee. 3 ,fiition , / (
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