594 A Commentary upon theGoIPel Chap.26, turns, as enauthor or abettour at leaf(, of their abominableplot and praetifes. How much better that holy man that faid, My Li,ttâ, menu, heart, head, and tongue, trembleth as oft as I fpeak ofGod ? Yea co,itatione thevery HeathenSages had the fame thoughts, that men ought }orreco quaties to be better advifed, then towife Gods reverend name upon their de (am. tongues as a tennis-ball, or to wear his image for an ornament, r.embabeo. .Nazianzen. &c. And furely, as St Mark relateth this hiflory, one would ; v dt1,wTo.( think Caiaphae a very confcientious perfon. For he brings him =_'trívà nexPi in laying to our Saviour, Art thou the (in of that Blefedone, mimeV17. Mark 14.61. So he calls God by a periphrafis, as if he were a- cyñtPyth. fraid once to name God : when as yet prefently after, hepro- Barash hu,gua- fanely.adjureth ourbleffed Saviourby the living God,that thou tell fi ipfum lei us whether thou be the Chrif, &c. And thishe doth, not out Women exprimi- of any defire to know the truth : but as feeking an occafion, . revereatur. from his bold and free confeffion of' the truth, ,to put him to death : fo going about to entitle God himfelf to his villanous enterprizes. See here, the hatefull natureofdamnedhypocrifie, and abandon it. Verfe 64. Thou haft (yid ] That is, as St Mark, expreffeth the Hebraifine in plainer tearms, I am. q.d. Thou haft Paid it, and I muff fecond ir, I am indeed the promifed Melat, and the only- begotten fonne of God. This was the naked truth with- out Equivocation : a device that the Jefuites have lately let from hell, fir the con(dlation of affliE ed Catho1ä,es, and fir the in- Itrution of all the godly, as Blackwell and Garnet blufh not to profeffe in print. Let us learn here of' our Saviour, to make a bold and wife c©nfeflionof the truth, when called thereunto : al- thou;h wecreate our (elves thereby never fo much danger from the enemy who (hall fo be either converted, or at leaaconvinced, and leftinexcufablë. Hereafter fballyefee, &c.] q.d. Now I am in a irate of abafe- ment, God havinghid his fanne under the Carpenters fon, whom ye have now bound, and (hall (portly crucifie. But not long hxce, ye (hall fee nie in Rate of advancement, fitting on the :fight hand of power, powring out my fpirit upon all flefh, Attf.z 33.. and, after that, coming in the clouds of heaven, as in .a charet of (late , to judge you that are now my judges, &c. Verté 65. Then the high-prieft rent his clothes] Which the high- prieff ought not by the law to have ,done, howl®ever, Levit.,
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