.--.? 00 ~' · have done it. ·But his goodnefs rdlrained .. hin1; he n1eaned ~then1 no harn1, but in– tended this fall to help then1 to rife; , th_at the confideration of it, and the other cvi- . dences of his divinity, n1ight one day bring then1 to .a fenfe of their fins. Nor will. he any further etnploy his n1iraculous power, but only in the c'ure of an enc;ny, whotn his too forward difciple had wounded. But th. aoth not abate their n1alice. They l y hold on him, and drag hin1 away, in a great hurry and uproar, through that city where he had done fo much good, and into which h,e had been lately received with joy and rriun1ph, and loud acclamations: Bft(- fed is .ke .tbat comet!J in the 11mne of th.e Lord. They carry him fron1 Annas . to ' Caiphas, fron1 Caiphas to P.ilate, fron1 Pi– late to I-Ierod, frotn Jierod to Pi late again; treating him with. all the indignities, all the infl:ances of fcorn and contempt that their rt'lalice could fuggefl: unto then1. Now, . tho' our extren1e impatience of ignon1inies . and- affronts, do much proceed from the pride and haughtinefs of our fpirits; yet is there in then1 a contrariety e\en to the in– nocent confl:itution of' the human nature. Shan1e and difgrace are troublefon1e to all ingenuous fpirits; fo that, tho' they could not -
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