Chap.z.Sed.3 L1r;king tmto !Jefos. Book IV. Part.3. 6or mitted mMtherin the infurrrClicn? Mark i 5·7· one th,u for a cerr.rine[edition made in the City, and for murrher WIM cafl imo prifon ? Luke 23. 19. one that was a robber or an high-way thiefe? Joh. 18. 40. one that was the greateft rnalefac1:orof his time? . and muft he be taken, and Jefus caft? muft he be fa ved and Chri!l: condemned? For the fecond, what the difference is betwixt him and Chrift, let us weigh them in the ballance, and we may finde; r . BarabJ,IM was a thiefe, and by violence took away the br~ad of the needy, but <.bnft was a feeder and fupplycrofthetr needs; 2. Bar11bb1M was an high-way thiefe, wounding rhem that tra. velled by the way; but Chrift was the good Samaritan that flealed fiJCh, binding up their wdunds, and pouring into th~m wine and oyle. 3 BerrabbtU was a murtherer, and had flame the living; but Chrift was the Sa,viour, relloring life unto the dead. Barabba. was a feditions tumult-raifer, he made a certaine fedition in rerufalem; but Chrift was a loyal tribute-payer, and his commands were, gi·ve rmto Cefar the things that are Cefars. 5· BarabbM was a bloody revenger, a man of blood, that hunted after blood; but Chrift was a meek and quiet fpirit, and · what with fweating, binding, buffetting, bleeding, was nowbecome almoft a bloodlelfe Redeemer : light and darkneffe have not leffe fellowlbip, Chrifi' and Belial no leffer difcord; here,s a competition indeed, the author of fedition with the Prince of peace; a murtheJ;ol:ls mutiniere, with a merciful Mediatour. t fon of 'B elia! with the Son ofGod.- . ' 3. For their votes, they give them iri thus; not tbiJ. man~bflt Joh. 18 . 0 · B~trabbtU. q. d. let us htve him cruciftrd wnornifed tbe dead, and . 4 ' • him relrafedwho deftroyed the living: let the S.wiour of the -world ;~g trac,r 5-171 · bt condemn:d t~ death, and the jlllyer ofmen bere!eafedfrom prlfo'n, s~r:.d;;~jj: a~etd have hto· p<~~rdon. A ftrange voce, to deGre the wolfe before · the Lamb, the noxious and violen't before the righteous and innocent: Here was the Prophetick parable of 'l~than fulfilled, the trees oft he forreft have chfen the bramble and refufed J J - the vine;~ But there is fomething more obfervable in this vote· u · 9 '14 • the Jews had a cuftome not to name what they held accurfed : I -n;illnot mak.§ 1!'enr_ion of thetr n.tmu within my lips; and furely Pfal. 1·6, f, thts fpeaks thetr fprgbt, that they will not vouchfafe to fpea'k • the Name ofJefus; the cry isnotthus, t~ot {r[111, but Barabb/11; · but .
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