616 Book. IV Part.3. Leokingu?$to fefus. Chap.z.Seet.7: - prophe(ied ~mos, andit jha!lcometo paffe in that day that I will Amos 8.9. caufe the Sun to go down at noone, and I will darf<!n the c11rth in the cleareday. · . The caufe of this darkneffe is diverfely rendered by (everal Authors; fome think that the Sun by divine power withdrew and 11J~r.intM.at.S7 heldback.. its btames. Others fay, that the obfcurity w.u caufed ~rzg.tr~Gf. H• by fome thick., clouds which were mir~tculoujly produced in the aJre, Di~~f~p"ft And Jftread themfelves over all the earth. Others fay, th11t thu '" 0 Joii&a~r~~· d~rk..nef!e w.u by a wonderful ~nrerpofi!ionofthe '!'oone, which at that t1me w.u lit full, but by a mwaele tnterpofed 1t felfe betwixt the edrthand Sun. Whatfoever was the caufe, it continued for thefpace .of three houres as darte as the darkeft winters night. . 2. About three (which the Jewes call the ninth houre) the Mat .17.46· Sun now beginning co . receive his light, {c{tu erred with a loPJd ·voyet Eli, Eli, L:m1afabachthani, my God my God, why haft thou John 19·'-S,Jo forfak§n me? - - And then, th.tt the Scripture might be fulfilled, hef;~id I thirfl....--And when he had recrived the vineg11r, he [.tid it i& finiflml.--and at lafl crying with 11 lo11d voyce, he[aid, Fflther, into thy hands I commend m7 Spirit, andhaving f .t'id thm, Luk.~3.46. hegavettptheghqft. lcannot flay on thefe feaven wordsof Chrift which he uttered on the crolfe ; his word~ were ever gracious , but never more gracious than at this time ; we cannot finde in all the books and writings ofmen, in all the Annals and Records oftime, either fuch fufferings, 9r fuch fayings, as were thefe !aft words and wounds, fayings and fufferings of Jefus Chrift. --And having [aid thw, he gave up the ghoft. Or as Joh. r 9 .3o. {ohn relates it, he bowed hi& head, andgave up the gh1{t, he- bowed , not becau!e he was dead, but firft he bowed, and the., dyed; the meaning is,he dyed willingly with outconfir~in t , cheerfully without murmure; what a wonder is this.? li fe it felfe gives up his life, and death it felfe dyes by his <Ieath; Jefus Chrift who is the Author<>f life, the God of life, lay(s down his life for us; and death it felfe !yes for ever nayted to that bloody crolfein the ftead ofJefus Chrift And now we may fuppofe him at the gates ofParadife, calling with his I aft words to have them opened that the King of glory might come in. ' . \ '3. About foure in the afternool'le he was pierced with a fpcare, and there ~ ffued out of his fide, both blood and water. And
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