Myrk ſpeaks to the ſame purpoſe, Ch. 14. 60, 61, The High Prieſt expected a long detence, and fo to have had matrer of Accuſartion againſt him our of his own Mouch, Chriſt diſap- pointerh him, ſaying nothing ar all, either our of M:deſty, or not thinking whartthey ſaid of any Moment, or worthy of any reply ; or pernaps leeing thar they could not agree in their Talc, 1o as what they ſaid was ot no force againſt him, The High Pries rherefore comes at Jaſt ro examine him Ex vfficio. Mark aith, Ch. 14. 61. Again the High Prieſt ashed him, and ſaid unto him, Art thou the Chriſt, the Son of the Bleſſed ? Luke ro give usthe Sto- ry of Peter from his firſt coming intothe #'7zh Prie/t's Hall to his g01Ng Out, entire, interruptcrh himſelf a lictle in his Relation of their dealings with Chriit, and then relates ſome Indignitics of. fered him, which the other Evangelifts do not mention ; which feem to have heen offered him, while the Souldiers and the Ra- ble had him, before he appeared in the Council, Ch. 22. 63, 64, 65, 65, 57, And the Men that held Jeſus mocked him, and Smote hin, and whon they had Blindfolded him, they ſtroke him on the Face, and ashed him, ſaying, Propheſie who is it, that ſinote thee ® And 1any other things bl.aſphemonſly they ſpake againſt him. And as (1m as it was Day, the Elders of the People, and the Chief Prieſts, and the Scrives came together, and led him into their Council, Then he mentioneth nothing of whar the Witnefles ſaid; poſſibly becauſe jr was nothing cf Moment; nothing upon which chey proceeded againft cur Saviour for lis Lite, but goes on.—Saving, Art thou the Chriſt, tells? Patthew ſaith, Art thu the Chriſt the Som of the Living Gad? Mark, the Son of the Bleſſed. Te is plain both from ti's Text, and from John 1. 49. that the Jews did expett a Afeſj; t/, who fhould be rhe Son of the Ever-living and Bleſſed God : hur whegher they underſtood rhat he ſhould be rhe $9 of Gad by Nature Wd Eternal Generation, or only by a more ſpecial Adoption than che whole Jewiſh Nation was (to whom the Apoſtle ſaith be- lonzed the Adptizn) I cannor ſay. | T adjure thee to tell us,) chat is, as ſome ſay, I charge thee upon thy Oath to tell me (bur ir 2rh not appear that rhey had given any ſuch Oath ro him, the Guilty Perfonggras not wont to be forced by an Oath to accuſe himtelt; nei is 1t very probable, that our Saviour would have taken fich an Oath : The Senſe therefore ſeemerh to be rather) L command, or require, cr charge thee, as Solemnly as if thou
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hadſt raken an Oath (as in the prefence of God) to tell us, Or