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. Mark himſelf from their own known :ulcs and meihods; for what hai ' : : 7 5 . C3 : [0 ſy "ur Faviour ſaid or done, mare than making uſe of the liberty their 1 They had in their Sanhcdrim before, Judged him guilty of Blaſ* $4 2's ; ; "gh a , Y phemy, Matth. 26. 65. But this they durſt not mention, left P:/
Lil own Law allowed, not conteliiczg any thin; apainſt himſelf, t . : gr —--Splaragcy a it ing them upon the proof of a wg ras J ah gr - but puoſs ſhould have rej:&ed them, as being not concerned in queſtions of who? 24p0 notice taken of chis i 64g o h;s charge ' yet we [their Law ; they therefore only exclaim agauinft him in the general as nd rock a great MalefaQor, bur of what kind, they do not ſay. It ſhould ſeem tha 23 Jeſus an{wered him, if I have ſpoken evil, bear they would have had Pilate have added, his civil Authority, to con- _ witneſs of the evil : but if well, why ſmiteſt thou me 4? firm and —_— —_ org _— without ſo much as hear- h : ? ; * ling any thing of the cauſe, ( ar this day frequent in Popijh Coun- - 4 Our Saviour could eaſily have revenged himſelfupon this Officer ; |eries) but they mer with a more «ont Jadge b cg
and bur to ceach us our duty , he only gently reproves him ; and] "Wy bs Bec bags boy V 3 rhe proves him ; an ers hin T1 id Pil | . mY know, thar he d1 | Not b:have himſelf as one ought to do inthe face |. 31 Jen 1al tlate unto them, Take Ve him and ho of a Court of Juſtice, where hz had both a liberty, and a prefent op- jndge him according to your law 92. The Jews there- Ir porrunicy co have accuſed hm, it he had fpoken ill; and if he hd [fore ſaid unto him, It 1s not lawful for us t Is ſoken well, there was no-reatvn for his ſtriking them » oO put any | one (* Now A had " man to death z. 2 nnas na 1- 4 : of if, 24 þ ent him bound unto Calaphas| » 1 will jndge no m2n before my ſelf firſt hear, and judge of hi ome the high prieſt e. ) 2 | ES M ' pro ; crime ; yon have a Law amongſt your ſelves, and a liberty to queſti- e The words in this 34h wer. are only to Jet us know,thar theſe | P22 and judge men upan it, proceed againſt him according to your hoy? things were not done before Anas, but before Caiaphas the H.gh Law. » They replv Ir was not Iawful for them to put any man to en My Þriejt, to whom ( as to his proper Judg ) Aunas had ſent hin! bound dearh : We are are aſſured by ſuch as are exerciſed in the Fewiſh Wri- ) thes8, js he was ar fit brought to him; a pre Thar the power of puttivg any to death, was taken away from 00r # Rs | : the Jews forty years before the Defliruciien of Jeruſalem. Some fav, i J 25 = SIMON Peter ſtood and warmed himſelf : was nor taken away by the Romans, but Errors own CozHurt : They hd They alc the1 erore unto him, Art not thou alſo one tought it ſo horrid a thing to put an 1/raelire to death,that wickedneſs that of his diſciples ? He denied it, and ſaid, I am not. ot al Jorts — ſuch 2 heighth amongſt them, through the im- # ; 4 ; ; ; [punity or too Jighr puniſhment of Criminals, that their Courts durſt _ KB * == feryants of the high prieſt being his [not execute their jaſt Authority. And at laſt their great Court de- _ man, whoſe car H Qter cut off, ſaith, Did I not ſee | termined againſt rhe putting any to death ; nor ( as they ſay ) was thee 11 the garden with him ? wid re ro — by _ Jews, _ in ſome popular Tumult, after 27 Peter thei . ; YI Ee their Court had prejudge the per on by pronouncing him guilty of = Sor ly 1 denied again, and immediately the Pr at: ſome capiral Crime : which ſeemeth the cafe of Stephen, W f. AFs 9. pe: f This Hiſtory of Perers denial of his Maſter the fecond time, | 32 * That the ſaying of Jeſus might be fulfilled *Ch.12.32. r.25,) "hpi ys: AO Matth. 26, 69,70, 71. Mark 14 69, 70.|Which he ſpake, ſignifying what death he ſhould : ru. we 22. 59, 59. with ſeveral circumſtances not mentioned by 7ohn. |dic o ole! Fe thenotes upon Matthew 26. 69, Oc. os _
: o Chriſt had before this time told his Diſciples char he ſhould die ohad a 29 & * Then led they Jeſus from Caiaphas unto [and thar by the death of the Croſs, as we read Marth. 20. wk - od rmed the hall of judgment g, and it was carly h x and by his Providence ordererh things accordingly, to let us know, «!;ar rmed > themſelves went not into the judgment-hall leſt ey” rage bz "ore 7 whe _ Cover fring was no Z-wiih