Chap.27. according to S= MATT x 8 vv. 613 fevenmiracles wherewith Chrif} would honour the ignominyof hiscrofle. ) Till then either they both reviled ourSaviour, or the better of them feemed, at lean by his filence, for a feafon to con - lent to the other. In whole example we fee, that every fool hath a bolt, to (hoot at afl3i ted godlinefle. Every curre is ready to fall upon the dog that he leech worried : and every pafhenger to pull abranch from a tree that is felled. But there is no (mall cru- elty incompofing comedies out of the tragedyes of the Church : and fo, to draw blood from that back which is yet blue from the handof the Almighty. God threatneth Edom for but looking upon Obadiah i;. 7acobsaffliEtionin theday of their calamity. Verse 45. DarkneIre over ail the land] The Sun hid his head. Sol no' Pert af: in a mantle of black, as afnamed to behold thole bate indignities peium tilt" done to the Sonne of righteoufnefle, by the fous of men. This miferandun, darknefle ferce think was univerfall s not only over all the land quern j nerube- of pry, but over the whole earth ( and fo the text maybe render- re er fro re Au. ed.) Tiberius, fay they, was (entible of' it at Rome : D ionif rzs. deyr ?dent. writes to Polycarpus, that they had it in Egypt. And e enti 7111, great Aftronomer `I'tolomy (ifI miftake not) was fo amazed at yñv. it, that he pronounced, either nature now determineth,or the God of nature fuffereth. Onto the ninth hour ] In ¡this three-houres darknefTe he was fet upon by all the powers of darkneiie, with utmoft might and malice. But he foyled and fpoiled them all, and made an open . fhem of them (as the Romane Conquerours ufed todo) trium- phing over themon his cro(r'e, as on his chariot of Elate, Colof, a. 15. attended by his vanquished enemies, with their hands bound behinde them, Eph.4.8. Verfe46, efua cryed With a loud voice],Therefore he laid down his life at his own pleafure for by his loud outcry it ap- pears, that hecould have lived longer, if he had lifted, for anyde- cay of nature under thofe exquisite torments that he futfered in.. his body, but much greater in his foul. That whichfor the pre Pent kerns to have expreffed from him this dolefull complaint was, the fente of his Fathers wrath in the darkning'of the bodyof the Sunne over him : which though God caufeth to jbine upon the lut and unjuff for their comfort, yet was Lot fuffered to Thine uponhim, for thofe threeforrowfull hours together. WhenThe- odorue the Martyr was racked and tortured by the coming-ad of socraaec. Julian the Apoftate, an Angell, in the forme of a young man, 1-fe- doret. flood
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