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2. They dismissed him; in this posture they sent him away again to Pilate, to all their former derision they added this, that now he was exposed in scorn to the boys of the streets. Herod would not be content that he and his men of war only should set him at naught, but he sends him away through the more public, and eminent streets of Jerusalem, in his white garment, to be scorned by the people; to be hooted at by idle persons; And now was fulfilled the Prophecy of Christ, I was a derision to all my people, ¹and their song all the day.

2. They dismist him; in this posture they sent him away again to Pilate, to all their former derision they added this, that now he was exposed in scorn to the boys of the streets. Herod would not be content that he and his men of war only should set him at naught, but he sends him away through the more publick, and eminent streets of Jerusalem, in his white garment, to be scorned by the people; to be hooted at by idle persons; And now was fulfilled the Prophesie of Christ, I was a derision to all my people, ¹and their song all the day.

1. 1Lam. 3.14.

Of this let us make some use. Was the eternal Word of God,¹ and the uncreated wisdom of the Father reputed a fool? no wonder if we suffer thousands of reproaches; We are made a spectacle unto the World, and to Angels, and to men; we are fools for Christ's sake, saith the Apostle.—We are made as the filth of the world, ²and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day. Christians must wear the badge and livery of Jesus Christ; we cannot expect to fare better than our Master, why then should we despond? I never knew Christians in better heart, than when they were styled by the Name, of Puritans, Precisians, Hypocrites, Formalists, or the like.