Chap.27. according to Sr M A T 81/T. 609 cent Indians great favour, when they do not, for their pleafure, S. Fr Vraker whip themwith cords,fcratch themwith thorns, and day by day crayels,p ;. drop their naked bodies with burning bacon. So very a devil is one man toanother. Verfe 37. 'Tut hie own raiment on him] Gods hand was in this, that all men feeing him to fuer in his own habit, might acknowledge that it was very he, and not another that fuffered in his find. c víahomet in his Alchoran fpeaks very honourably ofChrift, except only in two things. I. He took up the Arrian heretic, to deny his Deity. 2. He denied that he was crucified, but that forne one wascrucified for him. But what faith S.Peter? He his own fell bare our /inner in hri own body on the tree, &c. I Pet. 2. 24. They ledhim away] Quiteout ofthe City, Vt vera piacula- rie via`tima u0qva pro nobirfieret, Heb. 13. 72, 13. This was a myfiery hardly underftood by any ofthe faithfull afore Chrift neither could we well have told what to make of it, but that the Apofile hath there opened it to us, by the inflin& of the holy Ghoft. Let us therefe (as he advifeth) goe forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach, accounting it our Al. 5.4f. crown, as thofe Apoftles did that rejoyced in their new dig- n' k anju nityof filtering filmic for Chrifts name. It was their grace tobe gtoriojQ confu- fodifgraced. fio. Ambr. Verfe 3 2. Theyfound amanof Cyrene] A ftranger, coming out ofthe field towards 7erufalem, meets with an unexpei ed crcff., and follows Chrift, whichoccafioned him to enquire in- to the caufe, and got him renown among the Saints. In like fort, the faithful! Chriftian (a flranger upon earth) comes out of the field of this world , with his face let toward Sion ; and meets with many croffes by the way. But all -while he fol- lows Chrift, let him enquire intothe caufc, and the due flail be glorious. Him they compelled is bear his croffe] Not fo much to cafe Chrift, who fainted under the burden, as to haften the executi- on, and to keep him alivetill he came to it. See the Note on 70).19.77. Verfe 3 3. Aplace of a skull] Hereour thrice noble Conque- rour would erect his trophies to encourage us to fuffcr for him, if Godcall us thereto, in the molt vile and loathfom places, as alfo to allure us that his death is life to the dead. R r 4 Verfe
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