362 On the Paffion:. ., ·hitn with fcarlet, and put a reed in his hand, ·and, in fcorn, falute him, .King of the Je'WS. Acid unto this the violence done _unto his virgin n1odefty, when_he was fiript naked in the view of the rude n1ultitude. · It is reported of fom.e virgin martyrs, that God, pitying their grief and trouble to have their nakeknefs difcovered, when they were to be fl:ript of their cloths, did cover thenl with a veil of light, and fend then1 to a modefl: and deGred death. But the holy Jejitf, who refufed no ihan1e, endured alfo this of nakednefs, that we 1night be cloth– ed with his righteoufnefs. But though it pleafed their n1alke to have hitn expofed to all indignities· imaginable ; yet nothing would fatisfy it hut his tor– n1ent and his death. · He bath already had trial of crud n1ocki.-igs, and now he n1ufl: have fc_ourgings too: they whip him with violent and unrelenting hands, tearing hi~ tender flefh, and n1aking long furrows in it. And, n<)W behold the man! behold hin1 in that fad miferable plight wherein Pilate brought him forth, thinking to have ap– peafed the malice of the Jews! his head pierced with bricrs,his face blue with firokes, his hands bound, that he could not fo much as wipe off th.e blood whieh trickled dovvn , · . . his
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