Chap._x .Sect.6 Looking ut:Jto !Jefm. Booic IV,Part. 3 609 mantle, fo that in pulling off the robe, and putting on his own rayment, there could not ·but be a renewing of· his wounds. 2 • They led him aw~y. Some fay, they caft a ro~e, or chaine Mlt 17 , 31 , abouthis neck, by whtch they led htm out of the City to mount Calvtry, and that a11 along the way, multitudes attended him, and a cryer went before him, proclaiming to all hearers the caufe ofhisdeath· namely that '/4m Chrift wa; afedncer, blafPhoner, negromttnce;, a teacher of fal[e · doflrinu, faying of himfelfe that he wa; the U'v[ejfia;, King of lfrael, and the Sonne of GDd. 3. He bore hi& mffe. So [ohn relates; before it lieares him, J h , hemuftbeare it· and thustheymakegood their double cry 0 19 ' 17 ' crucifie him, crucljie him, firft crucifie him with it as a burthen, and then crucifie him with it as a crolfe; thofe {boulders which had been unmercifully battered with whips before, are now againe tormented with the weight of his crolfe~ As a true Ijaac he bears the wood for the facrifice ofhimfelfe; or Vrinh-like, he carries with him the very infl:rument of his own fad death. 0 the cruelty of this palfage ! they had fcarce left him fo much blood or firength as to carry himfelfe, and mufl: he now beare his heavy crolfe? yes, till he faint and Iinke, fo long he muft beare it, and longer too, did they not feare that he iliould dye with leffe fuame and fmart than they intended him: which to ptevent they confl:rained me Simon a Cyr<£nean to bet~re his crcfl eafter Mar. 17 , 1 : him. Howtruely do they here againe fwa!low the Cammcl, and Mark., 1l:. 1 • ftraine at a gnat ? the croffe was a Roman death, and fo one of · their abominations, hence they themfelves . would not touch this tree of infamy, left they fhou!d have been de5led, but to touch the Lords ar. oynted, to crucifie the Lord ofglory, they make no fcrup!e at all ; but why mull another beare the croffe, but w conflgne this dutyunto man, that we muft enter into a fe!lowfuip of Cbrifts fufferings? if any man will comeafter me, let him denJ him{eifr, and tt~f?! up hu croffe and follow me.--and M~. 16 · 2+ therefore Chrift hath {flffcredfor H:r, leaving us an example that we 1 , et. :r.. ~ 1 ' foouldfo!low hi& jleps. 4· He comforted the women, who followed weeping after him as he went along. And there fo!lowrd him a great ccmpany Luk.z-3-~71 18 · of people ttndofwomm, which a!fo bewailedtmd lamented him ; hut Iiii · [eflu
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