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6. For the abuses and delusions of the base Attendants offered to Christ; the Evangelist tells us, then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee? and as Lude adds, many other things blasphemously spake they against him; what those many other things were, it is not discovered; only some ancient writers say, that Christ in that night suffered so many, and such hideous things, that the whole knowledge of them is reserved only for the last day of Judgment. Mallonius writes thus, after Caiaphas and the Priests had sentenced Christ worthy of death, they committed him to their Ministers, warily to be kept till day; and they immediately threw him into the dungeon in Caiaphas's ⟨p. 358⟩House, there they bound him to a stony pillar, with his hands bound on his back, and then they fell upon him with their palms and fists. Others add, that the Soldiers not yet content, they threw him into a filthy dirty puddle, where he abode for the remainder of that night; of which the Psalmist,¹ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, and in the deeps; and I sink in the deep mire where there it no standing. Behold the Bed which is Solomon's, or rather, which is Christ's; for a grater than Solomon is here: Behold the flourishing Bed wherein the King of Saints doth lie; surely a place most sordid, full of stench; his other senses had their pain, and his smell felt a loathsome savour, in this noisome puddle.

6. For the abuses and delusions of the base Attendants offered to Christ; the Evangelist tells us, then did they spit in his face, and buffetted him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesie unto us, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee? and as Lude adds, many other things blasph•mously spake they against him; what those many other things were, it is not discovered; only some ancient writers say, that Christ in that night suffered so many, and such hideous things, that the whole knowledge of them is reserved only for the last day of Judgment. Mallonius writes thus, after Caiaphas and the Priests had sentenced Christ worthy of death, they committed him to their Ministers, warily to be kept till day; and they immediately threw him into the dungeon in Caiaphas's