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Crucifying, prefigured by the lifting up of the brazen Serpent. Whither must he be lifted up? to the Cross; hanging on a Tree, saith Moses. How, he must be nailed to it: it was the Prophecy; Federunt manus, Psal. 22.16. They pierced my hands and my feet. With what company? Two malefactors: it was the Prophecy. Esa. 53.12. He was numbered with the transgressors. What becomes of his Garments? the Prophet tells. Psalm. 22.18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots at my vesture. They cannot so much as throw the dice for his coat, but it is prophesied. There was not a bone broken of him: it was plainly presignified in his Type, the Pascal Lamb, Exod. 12.46. Not a bone broken? what hinders? Lo there be hangs neglected, at their mercy: yet not all the raging Jews, nor roaring devils, could break one bone of him. What then follows? he must be pierced in the side: the spear could not do this, but directed by a Prophecy. Zach. 12.10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced. His very words were not unforetold: the resignation of his Spirit into the hands of his Father. Psal. 31.5. His prayer for pardon to them that killed him: that same, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do, Luk. 23.14. It was prophesied by Isaiah, he prayed for the transgressors There is one yet behind. John 19. Verse 28. Sitio, I thirst. Thirst? this is strange, that a dying man should complain of thirst. Could he endure those tortures of body, horrors of soul, the curse of our sins, the unsupportable wrath of God; and yet shrink at thirst? It was surely, not the necessity of nature, but the necessity of his Fathers decree, which drew from him that Sitio, I thirst. He could have borne his draught unsatisfied, he could not bear his Scripture unfulfilled. They offered him drink before, he refused it, now he calls for it, now he receives it. Psal 69.21. In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink: the very quality and kind of his drink is prophesied. His triduan sepulture was prefigured in Jonah,