----···-----------------·· Cbap.z.Sect.5. Leaking unto 'fe[UI. Book.IV.Parr-3- 6o) -~--------- ma-d~ him[t~re rhe S91Hf God; thus the Doctors of the Law do . accufe the Aauthor and publiilier of the Law. but they confider Ei zu Abfolve 1 re, . f. ' . CII)IU t{f COlli ere not che rule concernmg Laws, he may law ul!y _abd:jh, who hath legem, .pomr. to rjfab!ijh; nor d1d t-hey confider that th1s Law concerned ·not him{dfe, who is in deed, and in truth the Son ofGod; the text tells us that Pi!.ue hearirw this ar~;m:ent,wao the more" fraid. l'if,ue (faith Cyril) was an h~atll.en idolatc:r, and fo wod~1ipping many god>, he cot,·id not . tell but that < hrift might be one of them ,and the refore in condemning Chrifi, he m;gbc jullly provoke all the Gods to be revenged of him. ·:his was the mean~ . .ing of !'i/;~t.s qudl:ion, whu1ce art thot: ? what is tby off-fpring! of what progenirors arc thou fpru ng ? andf'om 1 hence forth Pilate fvught torr/eafe him 2. The Jewes come with another argument, they threaten P:Lu if th~u lit th£srr;,m f." thou art not Cej'ars friutd · a forcible Joh .rg. a. reafon', as cbe cafe then fiood; it was no fm<' 11 matter' to be accuftd hy fo many audacious impudent men of high treafon againfi Ccfar, and therefore under this obligation Pilate feems to ber;d and @ow; whom the feareof ChnHs dtvin1ty had reftrained, him the feareof C rj':m frown provoked co go on to fentence and condemnation. Oh he was more afraid of man, whofe breath is in his noftrils, then of God himfr !jf, who made the heavens, and frl!mtd the woY/d. And yet before he give fentence, ht tak.§s water and w4heth hi& handi bcfire the multitude, fa~ing, I am innmnt cf the blood of thu juft pcrfon, fee ;r Mlr. 27 , 14 , to tt. 3. In reference to this they engage thcmfelves for him, which . was their laft argumrnt. hiJ blood be up.?n m and cur chilaren, q. d. Mlt·!7·lS. act thou as Judge, let him be condemned to dye, and if thou feareft any thing, weele undergo for thee, let the vengance of his blood be on us, and on our children for ever.Thus far of the firft general. - 2. For the fentence it felf, when Pilate he..1rd that,- he fate down in the judgement {er!le, in ,z plP~ ce that io called the p!lvement becauf~ er~cted of~ones; but in the_ Hebrew Ga.b~11tb; - Thi; loh. I I ; word hgmhesan h1gh place, and raifed abovr; tt was fo on pur- 9 • 3 pole, that the Judges might be feen ofmen when they pronounced fentcnce. And here Pilate fir ring down,he gave the doome. What was the forme,or manner ofthefentence is a great quefliH h h h 3 · on
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