9g How innocent are honeſt hearts ? Charit the Apoſtle) altho? our Saviour had plainly enough deciphered him as the Traytor, by telling 7041 that he to whom he ſhould give the Sop, was lie ; and then by giving it to Fudes ; yet (whether they all did not hear what our Saviour ſaid to Fehr, or did not think of fo ſudden a Tragedy) they do not ſuſpe& that the hour was at hang when 7udas ſhould perfeR his intended Villany ; though they hear our Saviour bid him get him our, and do quickly, what he had to de. yet Judas being he who carried » that little Wt of money which Chriſt had, Chap. 12.6. they thought that that which our Saviouchid him do, as a work he had undertaken to do, was laying out fomemo- nies, either to buy ſome things which were neceſſary for them, for the ſeven days of the Feaſt of unleavened bread : either for food for them to ea?, or for Sacrifices for them to offer. 5 Or that it was Cur Saviours mind, that he ſhould out of this little Rock; diſtribute ſome. thing tothe Poor ; they little thought that our Saviours wordsargu'd a giving kim over to perfeQt the treacherous deſigns which he hid conceived in his hearr-
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; Peter knowing the particular affe&ion that Chriſt had for 7ohr, maketh aſign to himzto ask of Chriſt which of them he meant ; when he ſaid, One of you ſhall betray me. : :
25 He then lying on Jeſus breaſt, ſaith unto him, Lord, who is it k.
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26 Jeſus anſwered, He it is to whom I ſhall give a || ſop, when I have dipped it ». And when he had dip-
30 He then having received the ſop, went immedi- ately out? : And it was night -.
s From hence appeareth, 1. That it is impoſſible to prove that Judas was with our Saviour, when he Inſtituted and Celebrated the Supper ; tho! if he were, it proveth nothing of a liberty for ignorant and Scandalous perſons to be there; (for Judas was not ſuch a one) nor yer of a Lawfulneſs for Miniſters of the Goſpel, knowing anyto be ſuch, to give the Lords Supper ro them. For altho' Chriſt knew
Simon 77. -1 We have the ſame, tho' not mentioned (as ſpoken in particular to John) Matth. 26, 23+ Luke 22. 21. tho' neither of them mention Chriſts own dipping tlie Sop ; but Matthew ſaith, He dipped his hand with him in the diſh; and Luke ſaith, Hs hand was With him on the table. Without queſtion all the Evangeliſts ſpeak of the ſame time ; for it is not reaſonable to think that this diſcovery ſhould be made, and 7udas gone out,and that afterward he ſhould return again to eat the Paſſover. This maketh me very inclinable to think, that tho' the waſhing of che feet might be during the time of a common Supper, preceding the Paſſover ; yet the Supper they were now at was the Paſſover Supper : where, 1, Were none but he and the twelve Diſciples. 2. It is plain they were in that leaning poſture, not uſed at common meals, but on the Paſſover nights, (as Dr. Lightfoot tells us from their Writings, ) 3. The diſcourſe paſſed at the Table is the very ſame (cho not in words, yet in ſenſe) with that mentioned by Marthew and Luke at the Paſſover Supper. 4, It 15 not reaſon:ble to think, that after ſuch a diſ- cover y as Chriſt now made of the Traytor, he ſhould come again to be pointed at, and expoſed. Concerning the Sop what it was, hath been ſome queſtion ; and a Learned Writer of our own, (bur in this point think much too critica)) hath increaſed the difficulty, by affirming the word here uſed [\ſwpiey]} ſignifies a piece of bread, or the lower part or chippings of the bread ; for which he quoteth Heſchins, who indeed doth fay ſo of ovf{ev, but not Joufev. The learned Annora- cor thinks, «| afisy is a falſe Print for Louie, but it cannot be: for 1. There are in Heſzchius ſeveral words in Alphaberical order,between «ee and this word. 2. Tho' wuioy be not in Heſchivs, yer Lewes is, and expounded by him J2* wigy parts; now all know that this otey, Whichis but a diminutive derived from ops or Lops, can fignifie no more, than a little part, let it be of what it will ; for it is manifeſt out of Homer, that joyned with an adjeCive, it ſignifies a mouth tull of mans Fleſh, which came out of the Cyclops his mouth. So as the ſenſe of theſe words is, He it is to whom I ſhall give a little part or portion of meat, when I have dipt it : » And having dipt it, he gave it to 7udar the Son of Simon : not the Fudas who wrote the Epiltle,and who is mentioned, Chap. 14.22, but he that was the ſon of 5:mm0n, called from his place which he lived in [Kir0r4] 1ſcarior, by which he did as perfe&ly deſcribe the Tr2yror.as if be had named him,
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