S~t. 19 Triumph o/Faifb. 2 2jl ea not his Mouth, but was dumb 4S a Lamb, led to the Shambles, and his Silence was as much, as Lord, I grant, I yie~d to ali th_e Accounts !t! ' this faJ Ctaenz: You w1ll not co~fefs your Gutlrineis, 0 Sinners in Chrift ! Nor take with Riots, .Murders, Oaths, and all your Sins: But the Surety ehrift was craved, and all your Accompts demanded of him, and confeifed Debt, and granted all, ver. 1:.. He was numbred :So [A1inna,] he was reputed, and written up in the Compt arnongll: Thieves : This was meer Imputation, he was not a wicked Man indeed : .A.nd confider how; ver. 3· He is called, defpifed and rejetted ofMen,. Chrift in himfelf, and intrinfically was the Gl<h ry, the Flower, the P.t:ince of Men, even at his loweft, he muft then be abafed below all Men, in Regard of Imputation, and that Penal degrading 'of Chrift ~ fo as 'tis fa id of him, be W<Is [Cha4aJ ijhim,] which is, as Vatab/~sexpoundeth it, fo contemptible a Man, that Men would not admit him in Company of Men, Ari. .lffont. deflit viris ; others expound· it, Ceffatio virorum, :Jerome novi.flimus virorum: . SanBius faith, He was not nurnbred amongft Men, he was fo defnifed, that he was the lowefi: among the loweft of Men, or the minimum quod {ic of Men, as it is, Pfal. xxii. 6. A Worm, no 1J1an, no Body, not in the Clais or Rank of Men: He was in himfelt; the mighty God, the Prince of Peace, more than above Men and Angels, the Chief of the Kindred · of Men, the fa'ireft among the Sons of Men, even at his loweft; but in Regard of his low Condition, he was made the Off~fcouring, or the Drofs or ~rtufe of all Men, as if not a ~htiftian Creatu re. \'Yhen
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