Chap.z.Seet..:\· Lecki11gttnlc '/e[tH. Book.IV.Part.3. 597 --------~--~------ count is very probable, becaufe that after the fcourging, he brings him out to the Jews, proclaiming I finde no fault in him; ver.6. and before his fcourging, he fpeaks it more expreffely, he hath done nothing worthy of death, I will therefore chaftt[e him, andre- Luk.13, I~, 16 leafe him. And it adds to this,that howfoever the cufrome was, tJat thofe that were to be crucified mull: firft be whipped; yet if they were adjudged to dye, their ftripes. mu/l be lej{e, .and ifthey were to be [et at liberty they .muft be beaten with more ftnpes; And Hitr.inM.tttbe. pilate endevouring to prelerve his life, they fcourged him above um Tom.:;. · meafure, even almoft to death. In this fcourging of Chriil. I {hall in@ on thefe two things. 1. The lhame. 2. The paine. , 1. For the lhame, it was of fuch infamy that the RomanJ ex· empted all their Citizens from it. .]sit lawful for you (faid ACI:.u.: ),tG. Paul) toJcourge a man that is a Roman.? -and when the C enturion heard that, he went, and told the chief captaine, faying, takg heed what thou daft, for thu man is a Roman; the Romans looked · upon it as a tnoft infamous punilhment, fit only for theeves and flaves, and not for free-borne or priviledged Romans; and the Jews themfelves would not fuffer it above fo many ftripes' !ell: a brother fl1ould feem vile unto them; ifawic/esd man be worthy to be beaten, th,tt the 'fudge fball caufe him to lye ,down,- fourt] Deut. 2p J ftripes he may give him, and not exceed, left if he. fh~ald exceed, ' ' and beate him above thefe with many ftripes, then thy broth1r jboHldfeem vile unto thee. Whipping is fo unworthy a puniihment, that only.children, bondflaves, and rogues wet:e ufed to be corrected therewith, efpecially if they exceeded the number . offourty ftripes; when Paul was thus ufed, he tells us, ofthe Je-a~es five times received I faurty ftripes [ave one. TheQphila[l , fayesthey would not exceed that number, left Paulfhouldhave 2 Cor.TI·'-4~ become infamous, and ever after uncapable of pub)ike office and hoping they might have regained him, they would not brand him with that note of infamy. 0 then if one ftripe above fourty was fo infamous amongfl: the Jews, what lhame what infamy was this, when fo. many fcores, hundreds, & thou~ fands offtri pes (as fome reckon them) were laid on J efus Chrill: ? and yet ourLord doth not difdain to undergo them for our fakes, he beares in his body th()[e wounds. and ll:ripes that we 4ad deferved by oudim. · · ,- , , · ·· · 9 ggg 3· 2. For
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