Chap.x 6. accordin to SC M A T T H E vv. 5g t Verfe 54. Put how then 'ball the Scriptures, &c. ] Why do'tt thou not thenpray (might they objed) for an artilyof Angels, to refcue thee out of theft wicked hands, that now hold thee prifoner, and will let out thy life- blood ? How then fhould the Scripturesbe fulfilled, faith he, that have forc-told my death? This was his conftant care, even when he hungupon thecrcffe,to fulfill the Scriptures : and fo to affure us, that he was the very Chriil. That thus it mafi be] Why muff ? but becaufe it was, T. So decreed by God. 2, Fore-told by the Prophets ; every particular of Chrifls fia rings, even to their very fpctting in his face. 3, Prefigured in the daily morning, and evening facrifice; this lamb ofGod was facrificed from the beginningof the world. A necefiity then there was of'our Saviours Puff:ring. Not a rccefú- ty of coadion ( for he died freely and voluntarily) but of immutability and infallibility , for the former reafons and refpeds. Verfe 5 5. Areye come out as againfl a thief? ] Secretly,and by night, with all this clutter ofpeople, ari i chillingofarms, fo to make the world believeGrange matters ofmy ? whereas, had your caufe and confcience bin good, you wo_ild have taken afitter time. and I fhotild have had fairer dealing. Andyelaid no handon me] Ye wanted no will, but ye could never findecaufe t and which of you now accufeth me of finne ? It is doubtiefle very lawfu=l , and inTome cafes needfull for Chri- flans todefend thci, owninnocency, and vindicate their wrong- ed credit, as did Mofes, Samuel, Paul, Melae thon: I never have fought profits, pleafùres, nor preferments, faith he, neither was 1 ever moved with tanila?ion or envy againff any man, Have confcientiam affro, quocun4 difcedo. This confcience I carry with me whith rf,ever I go. Ch:al ofall that ever lived,inight bell challenge his adverfári.sofinjary : For of him it might be truly tlixmed, what Xenophon doth ofSocrates, what Parercultu lothor Scipio, uodnihil in vita nif laudandum antfccit, antdixit, out fen 'r;that he didall things well,as thepeople teltified ofhim,and never fa °d or rhoughr any thingamiffe. Verfe. 56. That the Scriptures,&c.] Which yet were no more the caufe of theJ ews cruelty, then lofeph was of the famine, then theAflrologer is ofthe cclipfe, or Tenterton- fteepleof the ebbing and flowingof the fea. Then Yelleius, l,r:
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