l 6u Book. :v. Part.3. Looking unto fefus. Chap,z. Se~.9 ereeteJ, or whiles it was lying on the ground? I would not rake too much into thefe nicitie~, only more probable it is that he was - faitened to it whiles it lay flat on th_e ground, and then ao Mofes J b lifted up the ferpent in the wilderneff e, {o WM the fonne ofm,:tn bifited 0 ·3· 14, Jr h f h . .a.· up. We may expreue t emanner o t Clral-ung, and his fufferi.,ngs now, as a learned brother hath donebefore us; 'lVjw come Htrlecantem. the barb,:trom inhumane hangmen, 11ndhegin to un/oofc hu hand1 , 'lat. on Chrifls but how? alao 'tu not to any liberty, but to worfe bonds ofnayles: f'lff. then jfrip they &jf hu gore-gle>Ped cloathu, and with them queftionltf{e, not ~tlit· tle of.hu mangled skjn andflefh, M ij•twere not enough to crucifie him as a thiefe, unlef{e they flea him too M abeaft; then ftretch thry him out as another Ifaac on hu own burthen, thecrtf{e; that fo they might iake meajtm of the holes, and tbough the print of hu blood on it gave them his true length ,yet howftjitiiJ do they tak,t it longer ther~ the truth? thereby at once both to crucifie and rtrCk. Pfal.tt.J7. him? that he wM th~ ftretcht, 11nd rack! upon hu crof!e, David ver,14. gives more then prob,:tb/e.intimation, 1 m;~y tell tdl my bones; and aO'aine, all my bones are out of joynt ; which ot berwife how could it J~ we/1 be M by fuch a violent ftretching atJd diftortion ? whereby it Jeems they had made him a living otnatomy; nor wao it in the leffe fenjible, flefhy parts of hu body that they drive thrfe their larger tenters, whereon hiJ whole weight muft hang ; but in the hands and fw, the moft Jinewy,and confequently the moft fenjible jle(by parts of all other; wherein how rudely and painfully they handle him,apptares too by th11t of David, they diggedmy hands and my feet, they made wide holesliks thM ofa jpade, M if they had been digging in fome ditch: the boyftrom and unujual greatneffe of thefe naylei we have from vener~tble llntiquit;; Conitantine the great u faid to have m,:tde ofthem bothan helmet and a bridle.-Howjhould I write otJ, but that my teares jhould bitt ottt what I write, when it uno other Colof.1.. 14; then he that u thm ufed who hath blottedout that hand"'Jfriting of ordinances, that 'w.u againft me? · But the houre goes on and this is the great bulinelfe oftbe worlds redemption, of which I would fpeak a little more; by this time we may imagine Chrifi nailed to the crolfe, and his crolfe fixed in the ground,which with its fall into the place of its fi-ation, gave infinite torture by fo violent a concuffion of the bo- ~y of ~9~ Lord. !hat ~ !De~n~ E<? ~b(c!ye of~his crucifyci~ .~f - -1'+;>
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