It'svfuailw:th finners vnder fpecious Pá lOT1 Sonday. names to maske their imperkftions. Ser.3 ï. cloake ofgold ; and being demanded, Why her. didit e hisanfwerewas., This cloake is tooheauie forthe Sommer, andtoocold for Winter. Taking likewife a golden beard fromEfcnlapites,he faid,That his father Apollohavingno beard, there was no reafon his fbnne fhould weare any : all which, was but a maske for his couetoufneffe, Sin ulatafanattm, duplex iniquitas. Hence coneour contrarie nick naming of things, tearminggood,euill, andeuill,good 5 fweet,fowre, and fòwre,fweet. The tyrannie andcruelrie wherewith Pharaohafflis ted Gods peo- ple, he Riledit wifedome,Come let vs deale wilily. Iehu called that pall-Ionand fpleene which hebaieagainft vihab, Zeale, Beholdmy zealefor the Lord. Thofe peril'sof lifewhereintoSaidput Dauid, heproclaimed to be Gods quarell , Got and fight theLords battells, And here the Pharifees callthis theirconfpiracie, a Counccll,andtheirprivat profit,Zcale, &c. Teeperceiuenothing at all,neither doeyeeconftder,jc. This was Caiphm fpeech as for lofiphofArimathea, ofwhom Saint Lukefaith, Thathedidnot confineto the count-ell anddeedof them: AndforaNicodemxs andGameliel,it is verie probable,that they had nofinger in the bufineffe : but as it is in the prouerbe, The headdraweth there'? ofthebraeafter it,as thePrimummobile doth thereft of theHeauens and therefore he fayd, Teeknownothing : forthat when in a Commonwealth a Citi- fendiffers in his opinion from a companieof impudent and wickedperlons, and hues thereinwith Godanda goodconfcience, prefently they fay, Arsefabepoco, That he is aman ofno vnderftanding, and knoweth not what hee fpeakes. The reafonthat Caiphas rendersis this, It is expedientforvs, that one manAIM. thepeo- ple, rather than that the wholemotionfhouldperifh. At that venie inftant when the High-Prieft was to pronounce this decree,theHoly -Ghoft and the Deuilmoo- ucd him theruntoboth at once ; theone direetedhisheart,the other histongue: but inCaiphas hispurpofeand intention , it wasthe wickedeft Decree, and the molt facrilegious determination that was euer deliuered in the World. God couldnot bec well pleafed with Ca:pbos for defiring the deathof the Innocent; noryet difpleafedwith hisdeath, for that it was decreed in the facred,Councel of the bleffcdTrinitie, That one fhould die for the tannesof the people. But in GodandCaiphas theends werediuerfe ; this out of malice to our Sauiour; that outof loue roMankind. Nor isitinconuenient, that one and the felfefame propofitionfhould haue a different fenceand meaning. Milroy this Temple,and! willbuildit vp again inthree Bayes : ThePharifees vnderftood this of the mate- riall Temple, but out Sauiour Chrift, of the Temple ofhisbodie. That which thendooff,doe quickely : Our Sauiour Chrift fpake this ofludohis treating to fell him, but his Difciples vnderftood him as concerning tfie preparation ofthe Paffeouer. And fo in thisplace, It isfit thatthis manfhoulddie, (faithCaiphas) that wemay not becomecaprines to Rome : andHeauenfaith, It is fit that hee fhould die, becaufe the whole World fhouldnot perifh, The perfecution and death ofa Martyrturnes tothe Martyrsgood,butto the Tyrantshurt. Surely the Sonne of mangoethbuway asiC io writtenofhim, but woe be to that man bywhom the Sonne of man isbetrayed, it hadbeenegood for that man ifhe had neuerBeene borne. Heauen couldnot muenta more conuenient meanes than the death ofChrift, for our good ;but the worldcould notlight on a work meanes than the death of our SauiourChrift, for it's owne ill. Caiphas treated oftemporali libertie, the Ho- ly-Ghoft of fpirituall libertie ; caipbas ofthe fafetieofhis owne Nation, the Holy-Ghoft of thefacingof thewhole world. And therefore Saint Id; ad- t'eth, NonMienspreGente, (or as the Greeke Texthath it, Proea Gente) fedInk lies Dei,qui erancVerft,cengregaret invngrm ;Not onlyfor that Nation, butthat bee height 595 4.Regoq t.K¢g.t8.
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