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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 6 › Chapter 2 › Section 5: Of Christ brought forth, and sentenced.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. V. Of Christ brought forth, and sentenced.
About ten Christ was brought forth and sentenced. 1. For his bringing forth, I shall therein observe these particulars. As—
ABout ten Christ was brought forth and sentenced. 1. For his bringing forth, I shall therein observe these particulars. As—
1. We find Pilate bringing forth Jesus out of the common Hall, and showing this sad spectacle to all the People;1 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the Crown of Thorns, and the purple Robe, and Pilate saith unto them, behold the Man: he thought the very sight of Christ would have moved them to compassion; they had lashed him almost unto death, they had most cruelly divided those azure channels of his guiltless Blood, they had clothed him with Purple, crowned him with Thorns; and now they bring him out by the hair of the head (say some) and expose him to the Public view of the scornful company, ⟨p. 371⟩Pilate crying unto them, Behold the man, q. d. Behold a poor, silly, miserable, distressed man, behold I say, not your King, to provoke you against him, nor yet the Son of God, which you say he makes himself to be; but behold the man, a mean man, a worm, and no man; behold how he stands disfigured with wounds, behold him weltering and panting, in a crimson river of his own gore blood; and let this sufficient, yea, more than sufficient punishment suffice to satisfy your rage, what would you have more? if it be for malice that you are so violent against him, behold how miserable he is; if for fear, behold how contemptible he is: As for any fault whereby he should deserve his death, I find no fault in him; he is a Lamb without spot, a Dove without gall; O come and behold this man, I can find no fault in him. Some Doctors affirm that while Pilate cried out behold the man, his servants lifted up the purple robe, that so all might see his torn, and bloody, and macerated body; he supposed his words could not so move their hearts, as Christ's wounds, and therefore said he, Behold the man; as if he had said again, Look on him and view him well, is he not well paid for calling himself King of the Jews? now see him stripped, and whipped, and crowned with thorns, and sceptred with a reed, anointed with spittle, and clothed with purple; what would you more?