Chap.r.Sect.4 Looking tJ?Jto :Jefra. Booic IV,Part.J 6or humanity? and what is his lcarlet garment, but the embl~me of his wounded 'body ? that as he fpake of the woman , [he Anoynted him aforehand unto hu b~trial ; fo p,fttte ]oh. x z.7. m the myfiery cloaths him aforeband unto his bloody death. 4· They platted a crown of thorne! , and put it upon hu hcd; 'M lt.t 1. 19. a goodly crown for the King ofKings, we reade of many forts of crowns, as of the triumphal, !aural, naval, mural, &c. but never till this did we read of a crown of thorn~s; a crown it was to delude him, Md a crown of thornes to torment him ; in this we may reade both his paine and iliame; r. For his paine, it boared his head faith Oforim with feaventy aHd two wounds; B~rnard fpeaks ofmany more, mille punEturu, &c. I know not Ber. scrm.Jc ~ what ground they have to number them; but certainly many PJ![ dom. wounds they made, and the rather may we fay fo; becaufe that_ afcerthey had put it upon his head, they toBk,a rwi~, andfmote Mlt· l7 ·3o• him on the head. (i.) they fmote him on the head to fail: en the crown ofchornes upon him fnrer, and to imprint it deeper, till · as fome think it pierced his very skull. 2. Nor was it only paine, but fhame ; when 'for ham put out his parable to the men of Shechem; the trees (faid be) went out on a time toanoynta King Judg.9.B,9; over them, andtheyfaidunto theolive·tree, reig11eth()u overm, 10• 11 • 1 ~• 1 5t but the olive-wee[•tid unto th1m, foottld I leave my fatnFf{e, where- 14 ' I) . with by me they honouredGod andman, and go to be promoted ov~r the trees ? And t.ht trw[aid Hnto the Jig-tree, come thou and reigne over PA, but the Jig-tree [aid unto them, fhould I forfak! myfweetnef[e, and my good fruit, 11ndgtJ to be promoted over the trees ? then, jaid the trees unto the -vine, come thou and reigne over m, nnd t hr vine Jaid unto them, fhould Jle11ve my wine, which cleareth Cjod and man, and go to be promoted over the treer ? then [aid all the trees tti'ltlj the bramble, come thou, and reigneover u.; and the brt~mble [aid unto the trees, if in truth ye ancynt me King over you, then come, and putyour tr11jf in my /hadon>, and ifnot, let fir~ c<Jme ollt of the bramble, and devour the Cedars of L ebanon. As 'f oth,~~ put; out this parable in fcorne of Abimelech, [o the fouldiers in fcorne put on Chriil:s head this bramble crown, q. d. come, thou [<~Jfl, thou art King of 'fews, and therefore 1!liee'!e mczk§ "tliee acrown of br.tmble, King ~f trm ; by which mean1l they protefragainfr Chrifi as a feigned fabulous King, as if he were no fitH h h h · .eer
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