Chap. t 8. accarding to St. J oH N. I2 i Verfe 27. why aukefl thoume? ]; We are tobe ready alwayes to give an anfwer, to thofe that aske its a reafon of our hope,. fo they doe it to learne ofus, and not to infnare us. Thus Ikeptthe band-dogsatRaves end (laid Nicolas Shetterden, Martyr) not. as A&.&Mona thinking to efcape them,but that I would fee the Foxes leap abovefol.157Ç. ground formy bloud, if theycan reach it (fo it be the will ofGod) yet we íhall fee them gape and leap for it. Mr. Hawks, Martyr, ask- ed a Parfon that examined him, what kin he was to theweather- cock ofTattls ? And told one Miles Huggard a Holier in Pud- ibid.1445': ding-lane, who began toqueftionhim, thathe could better skill to eat a pudding, and makean hofe, then inScripture either to an- fwer oroppofe. Verfe 22. One of the Officers.] Becaufe our Saviour gave not the high-Prieft hisufuall titles, . but dealt freely with him, this of- ficer to curry favour , Veluti pontificii honoris, vindex , beats our Saviour with his hand, or flick, and is the better thought of. Di'blofo [elope-- Like Mailer , like man. .o the Bifhop of cjenevás fervant dif- to à Vicariifa- charged his Piftoll at'Farellt (that faithfull manof God) when 'Hula, [ed fru. he was convented beforehi Lord ; but by Gods good rovi- bra `m/. "'Yr.' t Y 1? Scultec, dence , miffed him, Grea mens vices go as feldome unat- we leonum?ate. çended,.as their perfons : jfiey [hall . bePure of fuch about them, dibuswent . as will lick up their fpett%, and load the Moufe with the Lions obruas, praifes.. Verfe 23. If Ihave spoken evill.] Christ bears with the Ofi. cers infolency, but forbears not to clear his own innocency. We mull, whena perfed, labouras the eclipfed -Moon, by keeping our motion, to wade out of the fhadow, and, recover our former fplendour.. Verfe 24. Bound,to-Caiphas the high-Triefl] Who fhould have done our Saviour better juftice, then tohave fuffered him, bound and uncondemned, to be injurioflybeatenbefore his face. But the times were then lawleffe and licentious for thefins ofthepeople.. Talesfunt principummores,gnales fubditorum humores,ut malo node non deft:maltu cuneta. Verfe 25.. Hedenied it , andPaid, Iamnot.] Takeheed by this example , , Patres nos is flruunt tum docentes, tum labentes , :. faith Asguftin. Seefl thou fuch as Peter'tomake ihipwrack ? ° Look A&.&Mon,,. well to thy tackling. They that will not profeffe Christ (unleffe fol.t9o4. they repent withPeter,whichStephen Gardener .faid at his death, that.he. could not) fhall be forted. with fuch in participation of plagues,.
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