Chap.z7. according toStMATTHEVY. 607 ofher. For when the had laid in arage againft her daughter, In- tbid.,ZB, violet in to dia6olas, Thedevil take thee, he took poffeflìon of her accordingly. The fame Authour relateth a like fad íhoryof a flub- !bid :ag, born fon, curfed by his father, who wifhed he 'might never flirre alive from the place he flood in, and he flirred not for three years, n 'e. Curlingmen are curled men. rA'lteriw per- ditio tuafit cautio. Seefi thou another fifer fhipwrack ? look to thy tackling. Vert ?: 26. es%dWhenhehadfcourged efste] Soto fatisfie their cruelty, and move them, if it might be,topity. But though they relented not at the fight, it's fit we should. Would it not grieve us at the heart, ifwc fho,uld fee theKings fon bafelywhipped by our adverfaries, only for our affairs ? Chrifi was fcourged when wehad off: nded, that he might fee us from the flingof confci- ence, and thole fcourgesand fcorpions ofeternal! torments, that hemight make usa plaifler ofhis own blefled blood : for by hù sanguir medici firiperWe arehealed, by the bloudy wails made upon his back we fear ei? me- a-e delivered. We hold it a thingalmofi beyond belief; that the dicinap!rene. applyingofmedicines to the. fword that wounded a man, {hall tics make the wounds heal in a man. But here is a myfiery that only Chriflian religion can tell of, and of which there ne- ver was prefìdent in nature, that the fcourging and wound- ing of one man fhould cure another. See the Note , on foh.r9.r. Verfe 27. then thefi ldier' ofthe governor] Barbarous and brut:fh necn,ikilfull todeffroy, Ezek. i r.3 r , Let the young men a- ril and play before us, fard Abner, 2 Sam.2. r4, It is but a fport to fouldiers tokill and put men to tormentfull ends. At the ta- king ofTripalii in Barbary, the Turkifh fouldiers, having in their hands one ohn dechabos, a French-man born in Daalphine, they brought him into the town : and when they had cut off hishands andnote, they put him quick into the ground to the waif, and there, for their pleafare, shot at himwith their arrows, and af- rank. hiff.fot. terwards cut his throat. What infolencies and cruelties they ex- 7 s6. ercifcd upon our Saviour for our fakes, even the whole band of than, we shrub read with regret for our fins, the weapons and inlirua cents ofall his fuff<rtngs ; and fee thorow his wounds the nakedbowels, as it were, ofhis love toour poor fouls. Verfe z 8. e4nd they (tripped him.,] That we might be cloathcd with the rich and royal! raiment of his riihteouf- R r 3 neffe,
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