6oS Book. IV Parq. LeokJng u?Jto 1efus. Chap.z.Seet.6' ly advant11ges wbatfoever? 0 then what a blelfed reformation would be amongll: us ? if it be not thus, what are you but as f o many Pilates, that ifyou we:e bl'!t threatned into a fentence, you would rather condemne Chr!il: than your felves ofenmity againil: Cefar; fuch would be the cry, let Chrift be aucified, and felfe advanced. Much more might be faid , but the houre frrikes againe; Pilate is now rifen, the Court-dilfolved, and Jefus is delivered into the hancls of the Jews for execution. How that went on the next houre will fpeak; on1y God prepare your hearts to heare devoutly, and to confider ferioufiy, what Jefus the great Saviour of the world hath fuffered for you. SECT . 6. OfChriftscrucifyirJg, with its appendim. A Bout eleven, they prepare with all fpeed for the execution : in the revolution ofthis houre we rnayobferve thefe feveral paffages, As r. Their taking off the robe, and doath· iog him againe with his own rayment. z. Their leading him away from Gabbatha to Golgotha. 3. His bearing the crolfe withSimonshelptobeareitafter him . 4· His comforting the women who followed weeping after him a's he went. 5· Their giving him vinegar ,to drink mingled with gall. 6 . Their crucifying, or fafrening him on the crolfe, \vhereon he dyed. r. The Evangeliil: tells us, they took. tl1e robeoff from him, tmd pm hio own rayment on him; Origcn obferves, they took.. off hio robes, hm the]'fPok..nor off his crown of thornrs; what ferved their interefr, they purfued frill, but nothing of mitigation or -mercy to the affliCted fun of man. · It is fuppo fed this fmall buGnelf.: . could not be done without great paine ; after his fore whipping bis blood congealed, and by that means il:uck to his fcadet · ·mantle,
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