;Irap.27. according to Sc M A T T x s vv, 617 ons. See him wounded in the heart, w cure our vain thoughts. See his eyes (hut up,that did enlighten the world : _See them [hut; that thine might be turned from Seeing d vanity. See that counte- nance fo goodly tobehofd,fpetted uponandbuff ted, that thy face might thine glorious as the Angels hi heaven, d-c. See the Note on,lob,19,25. :Beholding af4rre of] Either out of womanly modeRy, or weakneffe of faith ; which, when it is in heart, is able by its na. five puiffance to pull the veryheart as it wereout of hell, and with confidence and conqueft to look even death, and the devil in the face ; as we fee in Anne Askew, AliceDriver, and other brave women, that fuffeied t outly.for Chrift. :.Verte 56. Among Which rrae Mary Magdalen] Love is ftrong as death ; good blood will never bely it felf. (Maryalto the motherof Jefus was there, fitting with the fword thorowher heart, that old Simeon had forehight her. See, lob.19.z.6,z7: with the-Noteupon that text. Verfe57. A rich man of Arimathaa] Not many - fuch,' Its well there are any. Iofeph was a counfellour, aSenatour, one of the Sanedrim or feventy Seniours. Chrift findes friends in the naolt tempeftuous times and unlikely places ; as in eilhabsand Neroes court. Some good Obadiah, or One[phorus, to feekout Paul the prifoner, and refresh his bowels. Serena the Emprefle, wife to Diocletian that bloody perfecutour, was a Chriftian, and a great friend to the true Religion. So was the Lady Anne (wife terour King Richard the fecond,) a difciple ofwickliffe ; whofe books.alfo the conveyed over into Bohemia her countrey, where- by a good foundation was laid for the enfuing Reformation. Johnof Gaunt ¡hewed.himfelf a great favourer of wick fe : The like did the Eleiîour of Saxony for Luther. reorge lvfarquefle of Brandenburg, in a meeting, of the Emperour and States at Aufborough, zealoufly prefefred that he would rather kneel Scn%:et. yin si, down pre(ently in the prefence of them all, and yeeld his.head to be (truck off by the executioner, tben deny Chrifi; and his Gofpel. Verfe58. He went to Pilate,] It was time for himnow. or never to fhew him(elf, and to wax bold, Mark 15,43. TheSp- niards, they fay, abhorre dangers, never aduenturing upon hard, ty;or:r-; .,.. enterprises, but aiming to proceed fecurely.- Chrifts.Diiciples muf}fpeak and do boldly in.the -Lord, 411,14.3. Whatever come off;:
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