Chap.' 9. according to St. J oH N. 127 did he not then deliver him out of their hands ? Pu(illanimity and popularity would not fuller him : but howfoever, he fhall give teftimòny to his innocency. So when Dodourwefton was gone fromMr Bradford Martyr, ( with whom he had had con_ ro & on. ference) the Keeper told Bradford, that the Dolour fpake o- penly that he faw no caufe why they (hould burnhim. This Welton being Prolocutour in the DivinitySchools at Oxford, when Cran mer was brought forth to difpute, thus began the difputation, Con- 13ao. veniftis hodié, fratres:, profligaturi deteftandam illam herefzn de .`""13°°' corporis C'hrifli in Sacramento,. &c. At which, divers learned men burf out into a great laughter as though even in the entrance of the difputation he had bewrayed himfelf and his Religion. God will have fuchwords fall fometimesfrom the mouths ofperfecutours , either wittingly , or by miftake, as (hall one day rife up in judgement,. and out. of their ownmouths con- demnthem. Verfe 5. Pilate-Path,. Behold the man.] Ifyebe men take pity upon a man, fo miferably mifufed : and if ye begood men , let him go , that is innocent. But thefe monfters, like thofebeafts at Ephefus , had put off man hood.: And for good men amongf them, it fared with `Pilate , pleading for.Chrift, as it did with him at. Nola in the Rory, who, when he was com- manded by the Romane Cenfor to go and call the good men of the City to, appear before him , went to the Church-yards, and there called at the graves of the dead ,. o yee good men. Anton.cliGi e ofNola come away for the Romane Cenfor call or our varaznTetor.. a Y' f f y doica n7tetpo- appearance : for he knew. not where to call. for a:good man. I.,.c,i. alive.. Verfe 6. Crucifie him , crucifie him] So afterwards thepri- mitive perfecutors cryed out, Ad beftias, ad beftias,. Chriftia- nos ad leones , imputing the caufe of all publike calamities to Tertul.Apot: them, as Tertullian teftifieth So they cryed out at Geneva cap.4o. againft Farellus, when the Bithop firft conventedhim,. In Rho- Toilanturfacr.9- danum ,. in Rhodanum, as the Papifis fill cry out againft the Pro- 1egz, tollrntasr feffours of the truth, ad ignem, ad ignem ,..to the fire with them, to the firewith them. Indeed in the form and f ile of their own fentence condemnatory, they pretend a petition to the;fecular power, Invifeertbus ?efu Chrifti ut rigor juris mitigetur , atque ut parcatur vita: So they will feemoutwardly to be lambs, but inwardly they are raveningwolves :' witneffe that Chancellour of Salifbnry,
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