him : And the Superſcription of his 4ccuſation was written over, The King of th Fews. And with him they Crucified ewo Tirieves , the one on his A:ght Hand, and the other on his Left. Ard tho Scripture was fulfilled , which ſaith, 4nd he was numbred with the Tr.n{cref- ſors. Luke 23. 33. faith, 4nd when they came to a Place called ©a1- vary, there they Crucified him, and the Malefafors, ene in the riche Hand, and the other on the left, Then ſad Telus, Enber ferom them, for they know not what they ds, 4nd the, ported his Raincnt and caſt Lots. John tclleth us ſome further Circumſtzr.cee Tobn 19.418. Where they Crucified him, and two others with hin, 5 « ther fide one, and Jeſus in the midſt. _ And Pilate wrote x ith ard put it on the Croſs, and the Wiiting was Telus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews : This Title then read many of the Jes, fir tho place where Jeſus was Crucifed was nigh to the City, ond it was wiitten in Hevrew, and Greek, and Latin. Tyen ſaid the Chief Prices of the Jews to Pilate, write not the King of the Jews; Lt that ho {tid} I am King of the Jews. Pilate anſwered, what T h.r2 written 7 have written. Then the Soldiers, when they had Crucificd him, to: b his Es ments, and made four parts, to every Souldier a part, and alſ his Coat , now the Coat was without Seame woven from the t9Þ to the brttum + They ſaid therefore amongſt themſelves, Let us 15; rend jt but caſt Lots for it whoſe it ſhall be: That the Scripture might be fulfilled, which ſaith, They parted my Rayment anon them, a fea my Vesture did they ca8t Lots. Theſe things therefire the S$1:ldivr, did, And tnNey crucified him, That 1s, four Souldiers, a5 we learn trom 7ohn's Narration of this matter of Fa&; ir feemerh this buſineſs was affigned ro four more eſpecially : This Crucithir> ws a bitrer, and ſhameful kind of Death, norin uſe amonett the Jews but amongſt the Romans, the manner ot ic is nor particulariy known to us : Buras it is deſcribed by Writers, a piece Ot Woud was erctted, which was crofled with a Bar. upon rhe rop. The Bcdy of the Perſon being faſtened to the main piece of Woce. [115 Arms were extended, and nailed to the Crots Bar, or picce ct Timber, and his Hands and Feer were nailed. {ail laith, Ut was about the third Hour, Which with us was about Nine of tic Clock : So haſty they were, in deſtroying this juf Perſon, thar be- ewixe Midnight, and Nine of the Clock in the Morning, they a - prehended him, Tryed, and Condemned him in the $.mheat im, or ac leaſt, ina Court of High Prieſts, and Elders, and then betore Pi- {ite the Roman Governour, and led him co Þ= Crucified, and nail- ed him to his Croſs, The Evanzeliſts tell us, he was crucified in the middle, berwixt two Thieves (of whom we ſhall read more atrerward.) Several Scriptures of the Old Teſtament, were fnl- filled in this Crucifixion of Chriſt. They pierced my Hands and my Feet, P/al. 22, 16, was fulfilled in his nailing to che Croſs, In his being crucified berween two Thieves, was fulfilled thar I/2.53. 12. He was numbered with the Tranſgreſſors. That of the Pfalmiſt, Pſal. 22, 18. They parted my Garments amongſt them, and upon my Veſture did they ca Lots, was fulfilled, in the Soldiers parting of our Saviour's Garments (as their Fee) bur how could they parc them , and yer not rend them? poffibly they parted his other Garments, and only did caſt Lots for his Coat, or upper Garment. Or, ic may be they valued ir, and agreed each Man's ſhare, and then caſt Lots for the whole. I ſee no Ground for their Afferti- on, who ſay, thatin ſuch Caſes they only ſtripped the Condem- ned Perſon of his upper Garment. Fohn's Relacion feemeth to oppoſe it, he ſairh, And alſo his Coat, Matthew, Mark, and Fobr, all agree in the Tnſcription, which Pilate drew to be put upon his Croſs, ſignifying the Crime tor which he died, only 7ohn purs 1a thoſe Words (of Nazareth.) Thus Chriſt died inthe Atteſtacion ot his Kingly Office. This Inſcription angred the Zews ; they foli- cit Pilate to alter ir, and that it might be, Who ſaid he was th- King of the Jews. But Pilate refuſed, ſaying, Wh.:t I have wr it- ten, I have written. There was nothing more pleaſing to Pilate, than this, (as he thought) ro deride the Fews, as having ſuch a de- ſpicable Perſon {as he judged him) their Kinz: In the mean time rhe Counſels of God have their Effe&; Chriſt in his Death 15 declar'd ro be the King of the Fews. Lube faich, thac Chriſt ſaid, Father forgive them, for they know not what they 41, Whether theſe Words were ſpoken, when our Lord was firſt Nuiled to the Croſs, or afterward 1s not much material. Lube relates them be- tore the Soldiers, parting his Garments, Our Saviour by them de clares himſelf a true Paſtor, and Shepherd of Souls, reaching his Diſciples no more, than he himſelt did praQtice, Chap. 5. 44. He had taught his Diſciples to pray for them, who deſpitefully uſed and perſecuted them ; himſelf here praiceth ic : The Malice of Men ought not to quench in Chriſtians the Grace of God, Let us now condder the paſſage that happened, from the time he was nailed to the Croſs, until the time of his Expiration, which was morethan three entire Hours,
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