·15o.o Book IV. Part+ Leoking unte 1efut, Chap.:z.Se~.3 . ' hc:ed of this fin, banifh Herod out of your hearts, or Chrift will never lodge there: ruine without: remedy will feaze en thofc fouls that Herod-like, mock the mc1fengers ofGod, what, is it but to mock the Meffenger, the Angel of the Covenant, even Chrifi: himfelfe? as Herodfent Chrifi: away, fo let us fend Herod away, and give him a difmiffion out ofour dores. The houre lhikes again, and fummons Chrift and us to another ftation-. let us follow him frill, as Peter did when he went into the high Pricfts Palace, 11nd' .fate with theftrvllnts tofee . the end. -------------------- SECT. 3· OfChrift and Bar11bf.u compttred ; and ofthe qw.ftion de/Jated , . betwixt Pilate and the [ewes. • ·A Bout eight in the mOl!'ni'lilg our Saviour Chrifr i.s returned , ' to Pilate, who propounded to the Jewes,_whether they 8 would have Jefus, or Barabi>.u let loofe unto them. Ye ha.ve a Job, I ·3.9•40 ' cuflome (faid he) that I fhould releaft unto you one at the PafJeover, wiif/ ye therefore th11t I releafe untoyou the King of the [ewes ? then o.ryed they all aglliffe,[aying, not this man~ b:1t Barabbas; now 'Ea- "llbbM w.u a robber. It is fuppofedJ that in this paffage Pilate .... · 8 endeavoured €hrifis liberty, he L.new that for rnvy the"' had de- ..,.2t,t7.1 • "' J livered him, and he faw that Herod bad fent him back againe uncondemned, and therefore now he propounds this rnrdium to Mlt<%7· 17. refcue him from their malice, whom will ye that I releafe unto )'OU, 13mrbb.u or 'frfm which h· c.tlled Chrift? In the profecution of this pa1fage, I {hall obferve, 1. Who this Barabb.u was.· 2. What is the difference betwixt him and Chrift ; 3. How they vote. 4· Pilatts qurere upon the vote. 5. Their anfwer .to·his qua!re. 6. His reply unto their anfwer. 7· Their w.ln. plication upQQhisreply. ~ For the firft, what was this Barabb.u, but a notable prifiner ! ~atth.27.16. 0111rthat hadmade infHrreCfion, and "~Pho had com- / · · mimd
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