They at laſt refolyc what to do with the Money, which was no Err Summ, ( tor as we notcd before, it exceeded not Three Pounds and Fitreen Shillings.) They would not curn it to their own privare Uſe, for (probably) ir was before raken our of the Treaſury ; neither would they again return ir into the Treaſury, becauſe it had been made ufe of as the Hire of Blood. They rheretore azree to buy wir!t it a ptece of Ground , ordinarily known by che Name of the Potter's Field; probably becauſe ſome Porter had digged Earth, and chrown the wafte of hjs Por-kilns there. ſo as it was of no great vaſue, Thus Field, che Vulgar up- on tis Purchaſe ot ir by the Prieſts, called many Years after, Ze Fil d of the Blond, (Then was fulfilled that which was ſpoken by Fo1:my the Propher.) The Evangeliſts uſe this term fulfilled , as { havc before noted, in very different Senſes: 1, Sumerimes to expreſs the Accompliſhment of a Prophecy. 2. Sometimes to exprel: the fulfilling of a Type, or anſwering it by the Antitype. 2. Somerimes to expreſs an Alluſton ro ſome other Scriprure, men- rio0ning ſome Matter of FaQ, of a like nature. For the Texc here guaed , we have no ſuch Text in the Writings of the Prophet Jeremy, which are upon Sacred Record, Feremy indeed did buy a Ficld by order from Gcd, Cp. 32. 9. to declare his Faith in Grd's Promites, tor the Return ot the Fews our of Captivity, bur he bought it ot his Uncle Hanancel, and for Seventeen Pieces of Silver, and that he was a Potter, or that the Field was calied by thar Name, we do not read. The neareſt place in the Prophets to tliis Text is Zechar t1.12,13, And T ſaid unto them, If you think gd, give me my price : So they.weighed for my price thirty pieces of Silver, And the Loid ſaid unt) me, Cat is unto the Potter ;;
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Glory and Beauty of thar Church. Then as it were in 7 ndigns. tion, he ſaith, If you think good, give me my Price. What Requita will you give me for my Labour amongſt you? 5 they wes}. for my price thirty pieces of Silver. Their ſelling of Chriſt to a Traytor tor ſo much , ſignified cheir high Contempt of him And the Lord ſaid, Ca$t it unto the Potter , a goodly price that | "eh prized at of them ; and I tack the thirty pieces of Silver, and c.# (hm to the Potter, in the Houſe of the Lord, The Evangelj# indceq doth nor quote the very Words of the Propher, bur the Subſtznc. of them. And for my part I think, that the Evangeliſt here i; fulfilling, meanech the A4ccompliſhment of the Prophecy in Zcch.yj if For I know not what other tolerable Senſe to make of the Pro. phecy; if we do nor tay the Prophet ſpake in the Perſcn f Chriſt , forerelling his own Coming amoneſt them, their Reje. ion, and Contempr of him, and his utter Rejection of they - ant Propheſying as a piece of their Contempr and Reje#imn F him, cheir ſelling him to Zudos for Thirty pieces of Silver, (a moſt contemprible Price ) and God ſo ordering it by his Providenc-
thar this Money ſhould again be brought them, and this -:;::;: Field ſhould be bought with ir. So as Ithink, that Text ir; tulfilled here, more than by Alſuſzon, or as it was Typical to this 13 and that this 4&# was the very thing which chere is prophoſo2d, 2n6 here fulfilled. But how Matthew faith, This was ſpoben !; 7:51. the Prophet, is an harder Knot, Ir is obſervable that Zech.;1.;} hach many things found in Feremy,and it 1s not improbable, t!1; the very ſame thing was Prophefied by Feremy , tho? afterizard repeated by Zechariah, and only in the Writings of Zechu ih left upon Sacred Record. Matthew having now given us an Acccun: of the Fate of Fudas, returned to our Saviour, carricd (as we heard ) before Pilate.
11 And Jeſus ſtood before the governour ; and th? governour asked him, ſaying, Art thou the king «f the Jews? And Jeſus ſaid unto him, * Thou faych, +,
Mark hath the fame, chap. 15. 2. So hath Luke, chap, 2, 4. 13, John relares it more diſtinly, John £8.29. Pilate then went 11; unto them, and ſaid , What Accuſation bring you againſt this 11m ? They anſwered and ſaid, If he were not a Malefattor, wewnul! not have delivered him up to thee. Then ſaid Pilate unto them, Take him and Fudge him according to your Law. The Jews theifn: ſaid unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any Man to Death: That the ſaying of Feſus might be fulfilled which he ſpake ſyrifing what Death he ſhould die. The other Evangeliſts ſeem to hve g1ven us the Story of this our Saviour's firſt Appearance before Pilate, ſummarily. Fohn ſeems to have given us ir more orderly, and parcicularly. Ir is the courſe of all Judicatures , to require the Accuſers ro ſpeak firſt : Pilate therefore asketh, what Accu
ſation they had brought again® him 2 Their Anſiver was vey malapert, [ If he had not been a MalefaFor, &c.] What was i: to the purpoſe ? Suppoſe him never ſo great a MalefaQtor, muſt 1t not appear he 1s ſo, before a Judge Condemns him ? Theſe ac- cuſers (as ir ſeemeth) were of the ſame Mind that the Papiſts ate, Thar the Civil Magiſtrate is to be Executioner to the Ch:rch; and when the Eccleſiaſticall Power hath Condemned a Man for He- reſie, or Blaſphemy, the Civil Magiſtrate hath nothing to do, but wichour his own Hearing the Cauſe, to pur the Perſon to Death. But they met with a more 7 Judge, tho' he were
| an Heathen, Say ye fo, faith he, [ Take him then, and Judge him | according to your Law.)
This he either ſpeaks as deriding them, and ſcorning what they would have pur him upon ; or elſe no thinking he had deſerved any thing worthy of Dearh, knowing they mighr wichour him Scourge him , or inflict ſome lighter