- - -------------~------ Chap. z. Sect. ~ Book. IV. Parc.3. - for millions ofgold, that wh1ch [udM fuffered, and yet futfers in hell for thirty pieces of Gl ver! now the Lord keep our fouls from betraying Chrift, and from defpairing in Gods mercy through Chrift, Amen, .Amen. I fee one fand is run, and I muft turne the glafre ; now wasthe Jeaventh houre, and what were the paffages ofthat houre, I !hall next relate. ___________ .... S!icT. 2. OfCbrifts miffion to Hmd, and the tranfaEfiows there. 595 A Bout feaven in the morning Jefus was fent to Herod,who him· L k ". • felfe aljo wM at 'feru/lllrrrlat th11t time. The reafon of u e 13 ' ' " this was becaufe PilAte had heard that Chrill was a GalilMn, and Herod being Terarch of Galilee, he concludes that Chrill muft be under his jurifdidion; Herod was glad of the honour 8 done to him, for he wM de(ireous tofie Chrift ~fa long feafon, be- ver . • caufe he had heard mtmJ things of him, and he hoped tQ have feen (ome mir111cle done bJ him. That which I fball obferve in this palfage, is, 1. Herods quefrioning ofJefus Chrifr. 2. Chrifts filence to all his quefrions. 3· Hrroas derifion; and Chrills difmiffion back againe to' Pilate. · 1. Herod queftioned with Um in 111any uords; what thofe words were are not expre1fed, ·only we have fome conjectures ver, 9· - from Luk._e 23.8. q. d. what? art thou he conccrnit~g whom my Luke ~3 ·8• f ather WM fo mQclzed eft he wifemcn? and for whofe f ake my f ather flew 11/l the children that were irl cBcthlchrm ? I ha,ve hutrd thou haft ch"n,ged water ·into ,wink, anti_ huft multip!Jed loqves whereon fo many thoufands fed; come do fimerhint at my req;tejl, which elftwhere thou haft done without reque./J of any ; come, fati.<fle my defire, work..,now but one miracle before me, tht'lt I may be.convinc't of thy divinity. I dare not deliver thefe wor4s as certaine truths, becaufe of that (ilence tha~ is_in Scripture; only we r<!ade that _he hopedtohave feen fome miracle -done bj him• .•Herod could not abide to heare his' Word, and to bca're his yoll_e; but ' Ffff he
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