-------------------------------------------~--- Chap.3.Seet. 2 L4uldngNnto1efus. Book IV. Parq. ·623 they fpit upon t.hat divine face _with_ their devilifh mouths, there they hudwink h1s eyes, and ftnke htm on the cheek, fcoffing, and jefting, and faying, areade, who i& it that[mote thee. 0 beauty of Angels l was that a [;tee to be fpet upon.? men ufually when they are provoked to fpit, turne away their faces towards the fouleft corner of the houfe, and is there not in all that Palace a fouler place to fpit in than the face of Jefus? 0 my fot1l why doft ttiou not h•Jmble,thy felfe, at this fo wonderful example? how is it that there fhol]ld remaine in the world any token of pricle after this fo great and marveilous an example of humility? furely I am at my wits end, and very much afl:onifhed to con!lder, how this fo great patience overcomes not my anger, how this fo great a~afing a!fwageth not my pride, how thefe fo violent buffets beate not down my prefumptron. Is it not_. marv.eilous that Jefus Chrift by thefe meanes fhould overthro·w the King· dome ofpride, and yet that there fhould remaine in me the reliques ofpride? confider all thofe night-fuffcrings of Chritl:; Q.cruel night ! 0 unquiet night! !JOW was the feafon that aU .· creatures fho.uld take their reft, . that tQe fenfes, and members wearied with toyles and labours, f'hould be refrefhed, but on the contrary Chrifts members and fenfes were tl'en tormented: they firurk his body, they affiicted his foul, they bound his hands, they buffetted his cheeks, they fpit in his face ; 0 my foul thou finnefr in the darke, in covert, infecret,.vhen no eyers upo1 thee, when the fun, that e"ye of th.e world !S fet, or bid ; and rberefore all the night long is Chrifr thus tounented by thy fins; not one jot of rdt hath Chrift, not a wink of Oeep mull feaze on him. whom thou by the alarme ofthyGnsdifquieted, both at evening, at midnight and at the cock-crow, and at the dawning. 4· Confiderthe hurryingsof Jefus from Caipha;to Pilate· ~ow he fiands before Pil<~te, where he was accufed of fedition' feduction, and ufurpation.Not only Je.vs,but Gentiles have thei; hands imbrued in the blood ofChrift; Pilate was delegated from Cefar, both of them Gentilu. yet not witbonta prophefie, behold we go up to 'jerufa!em, and aiL things thar are written by the Lulc.x8, 3 r a Prophets concu,.ing the Son of man fb.t!l be accompli/bed; for he '· fball be ddivmd uxto tbcGrnti/eJ: at the Gentile-tr.ibumll he is <(UefiioncdofhisKiBgdome, and be anfwers both the Jews and Genti~cs
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