Chap.2.Se~.6. L9okingNTJIQ Je["'~· ___ Bo~~~IV.Part.J. · 613 Chrifr, I {hall reduce to thefe two heads, vi~. the fbame, and paine. 1. For the £bame,it was a corfed death, curfea is every one th.tt Gal. 3.11; hangeth on n.tree. When it was in ufe, it was chiefly inflicted upon flaves that ejther falfely accuf~d, or trechero?fJ I ' confpired the1r Mafters death . but on whomfoever tt was mfl ,ded, this death in all ages a~ong the Jews hath been b~a.nded with a fp.:cial ki nde of ignominy, and fo the Apofile fi gmf1es when he . . faith, he abti[ed himfelfe to the death, even to the death ofthe cr~J[e. Pht2 • 8 • 6 It was a mighty fhame that Sauls fons were hanged on a tree, 1 am. u. · and the reafon was more efpecially from the La,w ofGod, for he ·Deut.11 , 13 , that io hanged io accurjed f([ God: I know Mofes sLaw fpe~ks nO· thing in particular of crucifyine, yet he doth include the fame under the general of hanging on a cree; andiome conceive that Mofes in fpeaking that curfe forefaw whaf ·manner of death the Redeemer iliould dye. 2. For the paine it was a painful death ; that appeares feveral wayes; As-1. His legs and hands were violently racked, and pulled out to the places fitted for his failening, and then pierced through with nayles. 2. By this meanes he wanted the ufc botH of his hands and feet, and fo he was forced to hang immovable upon the croffe, as being unable to turne any way for his eafr. 3· The longer he lived, the more he endured, for by the weight ofhis body his wounds were opened and enlarged, his nerves and vaines were rent and torne afunder, and his blood gullied out more and more abundantly Hill. 4 · He dyed by inch- meale (as I may fay) and not at once, the croffe was a deatb long in dying, it kept him a great while upon the rack, it was full three houres betwixt C hrifts affixion and expiration, and it would have been longer if he had not freely and will ngly given up the ghoil ; it is reported that Andrew the Apofrle wa~ two whole dayes on the croffe before he dyed, and fo long might Chriil have been, ifGod had not heightened it to greater degrees oftormentfupernaturally. I may adde to this, as above all this the paines of his foul whtles he hanged on tqe crolfe; for there alfo Chriil had his agonies, and foul. conflicts, thefe were thofe rJJ''iv!~ ~r.t.v-LT"&, thofe paynes, or pangs of death, from which Peter tells us Chrift Ad:.:; 24; . was loofed. The word dJ'Ivr.t.~ properly (Jgnifits the payn(s of · - · Ilii 3 · ai
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