2. for the paine, tbis kinde orpunifhment, was not only infa. rnous,but terrible; no fooner ¢e fouldiers had their commiffion but they charged, and difcharged upon him fuch bloody blows: asifhe had been the greateft offender, and bafeft flave in all the world. '1\[icephorm calls thefe whippers bloody hang-men, by ' Nicep.l.J.c.J. tbefierceneffe ofwhofe whipping many had dyed under their hands, "The manner of their whipping is defcribed thus; Af- "J3o[q. depaJJ. ' ' ter they had ftripped him, they bou~d him to a pillar, whifieminc.paa.S'Io" ther came fix young and ftrong executwners,fcourgers, varlets o ''hang-men (faith {erome) to fcourge him, and whip him whil~ •' they could; whereoftwo whipped him with rods of thornes. "and when they had wearied themfelves, other two whipped ' 'him with ropes or whip-coards, tyed and knotted like a carters ' 'whip; and when they were tyred, the other two fcourged off •' his very skin with wires, or little chaines of Iron; and thus "they continued, till by :rlternate and fucceffive turnes they had ''added ftripe upon·ftripe, and wound upon ,wound, latter upon . " .former, and new ripon old,that he was all over in a gore blood. The scrip~ure tells us, that he was wounded for our tranfgr.ef!icm, 1[!. 53'>• -and br11ijed for our iniquities, the chaftifemmt of our pe~~ce was laid upon him, and with hu ftrjpes we are healed; he was wounded, bruifed, chaftifed, whipped with ftripes; if.you would lmow with how many fl:ripes f fomereckon them to the number of the Souli:liers, fix hundreth and fixty, or a thoufand ftripes; others reckon them according to the number of the bones cornpaete~ ia mans body, which fay Anatomifts are two 1mndreth a·nd !ixty, and Chrift having receivedrfor every bone three fl:ripes ::rccordin~ . to the triple rnannerof_bis whippmg, they.amounted in all to feaven hundreth and eighty ftri pes; otbt:rs reckon them to five thoufand; above the fourty which the Jews were commanded not to exceeq in;·_.__,And the truth is if the whole b.."lnd ~ffouldim were the whippers•ofChrift (as fome would ~~ve it) '1 cannot fte . bur-h1dtdpes·might be more than fo; when·the fot:~ .of an :Jpaelitijli woman ' blafphrrned' God, the Levir.l4•t 4 . Lord faid to r..!lwofes, 'bYi_.,_g forth him tf/at- hath curfed without the campr,and let all that hrillrdhim lay their ·hcmds upan his he~td, and let all t(;e c~ng~eg;atio~Jii!~e him; now-.Cllrift had faid before all the band, thati1e'wanhe Son ofGod. wbiduheycalled b!afphe- .my; . and therefore why might they not all (according.to,this · .. r.· , law) ·-·
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