The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

2. Pilate maketh recital of what had passed. Ye have brought this man as one that perverteth the people: You see that I have throughly sifted and examined all that you have accused him of, and all this have I done in your presence. Now I do solemnly declare unto you, that I find no fault in him, in any matter which you have accused him of.

2. Pilate maketh recital of what had passed. Ye have brought this man as one that perverteth the people: You see that I have throughly sifted and examined all that you have accused him of, and all this have I done in your presence. Now I doe solemnly declare unto you, that I find no fault in him, in any matter which you have accused him of.

3, I am now confirmed in my judgment of the case, because I sent you to Herod to accuse him before Herod, and he hath found no fault in him, but hath sent him back to me, finding nothing in him worthy of death. Luk. 23.15. No nor yet Herod, for I sent you to him, and lo nothing worthy of death is done unto him.

4. Therefore I do now declare unto you that I will chastise him and release him. But Pilate, with your favour, why will you chastise an innocent person? is this Justice? If Pilate say, I do it to please and pacify the rage of the Jews against him: But is this a noble Roman spirit to pervert justice to please the people? Fiat Justitia, ruat Coelum, is a Latin Proverb. And further, when ⟨p. 95⟩you had performed your first word in chastising him, why did you not perform your second word to release him? But Jesus Christ and his poor Servants may see what we are to expect from the hands of Man.