600 Book. IV Part.Jo l.ooking uuto 1efus. Chap.z.Sea.4.' Ifl. r.6. . Job. 19.1• Mar.l7.18. KAi(-tu'J'a T.D~~)p/m, Rev.19 16, w.u upon him, and with hisftripes are we healed. Come then and let us learne to reade this love-letter fent from heaven in bl~ody charaCl~rs, Chrill: is ftripped who cloathed the lilliesof the field· Chrill: is bound hand and foot, his hands that multiplied th~ loaves, and his feet that were weary in feeking the Jlragling fheep; Chrill: is fcourged all over, becaufe all over we were full of wunnds, and bruifes, and putri.fyingfores, and there was no way to cure our wounds, but by his wounds, our bruifes, but by his bruifes, our fores, but by his fores; 0 reade, and reade againe Chrill: is whipped, belly, back, fide, from his fhoulders to th~ foles of his feet,thebfhes eating into his flelh,and cutting his very veines, fo that ( as fome fay with much confidence, thou9h I know not with what truth) the gafhes were fo wide that you might have feen his ribbs, and bones, and very irtwards; what, was there ever love like unto this love .? had he not been God as well as man, he coul{never have had in his heart fuch a love as this; 0 it waii a divine love, it was the love ofa [efm, a love far furpaillng either the love of men, or women, or of Angels. , 3. They put upon him apurple raGe, or afear let robe. [ohn calls it purple, and Matthew fcarlet ; howfoever fome difference . may be, yet becaufe of their likenelfe, they are put fometime~ one for another, they put upvn him a fcarlenobe, it i~ in the Original a [carlet clok!, it was a loofefhort garment, at firll: ufed only by Kings or Empetours; and rhe colour of it was fuitable to Chriits condition, for he was now purple all over, as well within it, as without it; his bqdy and his garment were both ofa deep dyed fanguine colour. Some out of Zachary, where it is faid that [ofoua wM cloathed with filthy garments, condude the old ragged, thred- bare filthinelfe ofhis robe; fo that every tbing fhall have its office and feveral lhare in his abufe; toe colour a.nd the manner of the garment fl. ours his Kingdome ; the barenelfe, his ou~ward efiimation with the people ; the raggednelfe, his late fc~tte r.ed retinue; the fullednelfe, his ll:ained, fpotted life, as they pretended, faying, he w.u a friend of publicans and jirmers.--but out of this darknelfe the Lord can bring light, be hath his myfteries wrapt up in the malice of his enemies; for both on his g11rment, a_nd on hu thigh was written a myflery; an.d in this fc;nfe what other is his garment but the emblem-of h1s ' humanity?
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