Cha'p.19. decoding 10 St J o F-I N. igt and rob the Common-wealth, fit in fcaritt, with gold chains about their necks.Sinifrerity is an, enemy to fincerity.ñ!! (elf- -refpe is and Prrivat ervofu corrupt ends mull be laid afideby men in authority and rice, as romped busvi Mofe.rfpeaks,that is,pure jufticewithout mud muff rundown,Z *tt. t4mag:rnt :pab i6. 20. Dtrrefcite, durefcite, Paid the Smith to the Luke, that duril tic z,.uroi $lot do juftice. purpura vìjw. Verfe 17. e/lnd he , bearing his croffe, &c. ] This was the Ro- tur.Catoap. mane fafbion (as `Plutarch relates it) that every condemned perfon oil a1 : "fhouldbear that Croffe, that anon fhould bear him. Hence grew ,,',,,,40/44,t, that expreflionof our Saviour_, He that will be my Diciple, muff ra .teingeu take up his Croffe , and fo fill up that which tt behinds . Éaum sal- Col. r. 24. eov.Plut. Into aplace called the place ofaskull.] Where`his tender heart was piercedwith grief, nodoubt, at the fad fight of fuch a {laugh- terof men made by fin : likeas it could not bütbe a fore-cut and corrofive to <TIaurttiuc , to fee his wife and children (fainbefore him , when himfelf was alfó to be next ftewedin his Own broth; St ?ohn is exael infelting down our Saviours fufferings, and thisfop one. Verfe 18. where they crucified him , ] An ignominious , ac- ended, and dolorous death for hewas nailed to the tree in the lands and feet, which are the molt fenfible parts, as fulleft offi news, and therefore (in fo fine a body, as hisefpecially)-of mófi exquifite fenfe. Look wifhly upon fin in this glafTe, and love it ifthou twill. For our fumes were the nails,, and our felves the Traitours, that faftenedhimto the tree. Pilate andhis fouldiers, Nos and theJews wereall fet aworkbyus. Learnto lay the blame . on thy felf, and fay, It was my gluttony that reached a cup ofgall and--vineger to his mouth; mine incontinency;that.provided {tripes for his back ; mine arrpgancy,that platted a crown ofthorns upon his head; mine inconftancy, that put areed into his hand; my trea. chery, that nailedhis hands and feet , my vanity, thatgrieved his foul to the death; my:felf--love,that thruft a fpear intohis fide,&. ildfum ego quifed. pit Verfe i9. yefue ofNazareth, c. ] Toperfwade the peopletoil l bow fuperftitiouflyat theName of.Jefus. Papifts commonly (but ridiculoufly)teach iñ their Pulpits,that Chrift himfelfon.theCroffe bowed his headon the right fìde,toreverencehisownname,which was written over it,; as Sir',Edwin Sands relates from hisownex Europ,Spe1 perience. -K a erCe
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